Every weekend from June 30 to July 29, the 6th Sphere of Silence festival will take place in Royal Łazienki Park. Music from various parts of the world will be performed at over 100 outdoor concerts. Each weekend is dedicated to different music and culture. The first weekend is Polish rhythms. Chamber Orchestra N-Harmonia, and…Continue Reading 6th Sphere of Silence Royal Łazienki Music Festival
Paris-based Polish composer Elżbieta Sikora is currently hard at work on a new violin concerto as well as edition of the piano-vocal score for her Lamento—a long and dramatic soliloquy from her opera, Madame Curie. And, speaking of that opera, we to invite all of our readers to this fall’s Wratislavia Cantans Festival, where Madame…Continue Reading Sikora’s Upcoming Performances
Almost exactly one year ago, the PMC heard from a dear old friend (and a fabulous conductor of the National Philharmonic Orchestra), Piotr Gajewski. Piotr alerted us and our audience to the cause of Szymon Rywalski, a young Polish horn player who received a huge merit scholarship from Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, but…Continue Reading The Musical Adventures of Szymon Rywalski