2nd International Violin Festival The 2nd International Violin Festival, organized by the Toruń Symphony Orchestra, will begin on February 14 this year and will continue until the end of the month. Various concerts, recitals, exhibitions, lectures, film screenings, competitions, and workshops of prominent violinists will be held throughout the festival in Toruń. The opening concert will feature…Continue Reading Festivals – February 2016
Swiatkiewicz Receives Passport Award The 2015 “Passport” Awards were announced on January 12, 2016. This year’s nominees for the coveted award—given annually to scores of professionals by the weekly magazine Polityka since 1993—were the youngest batch in its over 20 year history. During the ceremony, held at the Grand Theatre of the Polish National Opera in Warsaw,…Continue Reading Awards – February 2016
Culture.pl, the website of Poland’s Adam Mickiewicz Institute, recently published an interesting article about the 8 most unusual instruments used in Polish folk music dating back to the 11th century: the ligawka, hurdy-gurdy, cart rattle, devil’s fiddle, suka, burczybas, pedal accordion, and vessel. In contrast to their unappealing names, these instruments emanate stunning sounds through simple mechanisms,…Continue Reading Unusual Polish Folk Instruments
Pianists of all nationalities born between 1984-2000 are invited to participate in the Paderewski International Piano Competition (Nov. 6-20, 2016) in Bydgoszcz, the most prestigious piano competition in Poland after the Chopin Competition in Warsaw. The Competition is organized by the Paderewski Music Association to commemorate Ignacy Jan Paderewski, a remarkable pianist, virtuoso, composer, politician and statesman….Continue Reading Paderewski International Competition Deadline
Outstanding Polish pianist and laureate Joanna Różewska will perform for the very first time in the US. The concert is organized by the Polish American Club of Greater Sacramento and will be held at the Club’s Community Hall on March 5. The program will consist solely of Chopin’s works, in celebration of what would be the composer’s 206th…Continue Reading Różewska US Debut in Sacramento Area
The Centre of Artistic Education at the Gorzów Philharmonic announces the 4th International Composers Competition. The idea of Competition is to promote artistic creation and to support composers’ individual approaches to contemporary music. The Competition aims to popularize the fascinating and rich world of sounds. The previous three editions (2013-2015) were addressed to young Polish composers…Continue Reading 4th International Composers Competition
Conducted by Charles Olivieri-Munroe, the Kraków Philharmonic will presents a concert featuring Russian trumpeter Sergei Nakariakov on February 12-13. Known as the “Paganini of the trumpet” after an exceptional performance at 13 years old, Nakariakov has traveled extensively to expand his range of classical literature for the trumpet. He has performed in many of the world’s leading centers of…Continue Reading Krakow Phil – Weinberg Trumpet Concerto
mUltimate Chopin is a modern Internet platform presenting all the available sources of the works of Fryderyk Chopin. Developed by Paweł Kamiński, editor of the Chopin National Edition, in co-operation with the editorial team of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute as part of the Digital Heritage program. This application has been especially designed to enable browsing, analyzing and comparing…Continue Reading mUltimate Chopin
Maestro Grzegorz Nowak continues his busy concert schedule this winter. On February 6-7 Nowak presented three concerts at the Festival La Folle Journée in Nantes, France with Sinfonia Varsovia, conducting works by Field, Knecht, Stamitz, Gang Chen/He Zhan Hao, and Casals, as well as Noskowski’s TheSteppes. On February 18 Nowak leads the Orquesta Clásica Santa Cecilia in Madrid with the…Continue Reading Nowak News
Polish composer Hanna Kulenty has a new official YouTube channel. Here visitors will find full versions of nearly all of her compositions, performed by such excellent ensembles as: Kronos Quartet, ensemble ‘de ereprijs’, trumpeter Marco Blaauw, NOSPR, Wrocław Chamber Orchestra “Leopoldinum,” and many more. There are already around 75 works available—categorized by works for symphony orchestra, stage and opera,…Continue Reading New YouTube Channel for Kulenty