The 18th edition of the Music Gardens Festival will take place from June 30 – July 31 in Warsaw. The Music Gardens Festival, often referred to as the Warsaw Summer Music Salon, has been held since 2001. It features 30 artistic events each year, including concerts, film screenings and opera and ballet performances. The festival takes…Continue Reading 18th Music Gardens Festival
On 29 July, Marcel Chyrzyński’s latest installment in the Ukiyo-e cycle of compositions will premiere at the 41st edition of the Dni Muzyki Karola Szymanowskiego [Days of Music by Karol Szymanowski] Festival in Zakopane. The concert takes place at the Holy Cross Church in Zakopane, and the program will include additional works by Karol Szymanowski,…Continue Reading Chyrzyński Premiere
Pop CD Collection Darek Swiatkowski, Program Director for the Polish American Performing Arts Club, recently donated to us another batch of music CDs and a DVD. Here’s the list: Two CDs by Panny Wyklęte—the first is the group’s 2013 album and the second a 2014 release, “Wygnane” [Expelled], Vol. 1; A 2 CD set, Dorzecze…Continue Reading Gifts to PMC June 2018
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
On July 29, pianist Daniel Wnukowski will perform an all-Polish program of Mazurkas in Los Angeles. The program includes works by inter-war composers Karol Szymanowski, Zygmunt Stojowski, Grzegorz Fitelberg, Alexandre Tansman, and Karol Rathaus, as well as Fryderyk Chopin. This concert is a part of the Sundays Live series, held at the Los Angeles County…Continue Reading July 29: Pianist Daniel Wnukowski Live at LACMA
The Kupinski Guitar Duo—Ewa Jablczynska and Dariusz Kupinski— will perform a program of music for two guitars during the Sundays Live series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on July 22. Their program will include Rossini’s La Gazza Ladra overture, Chopin’s Two Mazurkas and a Waltz, Rachmaninov’s Prelude Opus 23 No. 5,” and…Continue Reading July 22: Kupinski Guitar Duo Live at LACMA
“Polish music, [Plowright] has it in his heart, in his soul…” Ruch Muzyczny British pianist Jonathan Plowright—a champion of Polish Romantic repertoire for the piano—has been invited to participate in a number of events to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Polish Independence this year in Poland: 5 August 2018 | 8:00 p.m.: Duszniki International Chopin…Continue Reading Jonathan Plowright Celebrates Poland’s Independence Centenary
The final concert of ZKP’s 59th Tadeusz Baird Young Composers’ Competition was held on June 14 at the Warsaw headquarters of Polish Music Editions (PWM). The jury consisted of leading composers Marta Ptaszyńska (chair), Ignacy Zalewski (secretary), Sławomir Kaczorowski, Leszek Lorent and Sławomir Zamuszko. From the four works that qualified for the second stage—Sonata for viola…Continue Reading Winners of the 59th Tadeusz Baird Young Composers Competition