This year, the Fryderyk Music Awards (the Polish equivalent of the Grammys in the US) have changed the formula by opening up the the Awards Gala for the classical music category to the public. This year’s gala took place at the headquarters of the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR) in Katowice, whose excellent acoustics created…Continue Reading Fryderyk Music Awards
The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR) invites music lovers to a special event during the last weekend of March: the 8th Festival of Premieres: “Polish Modern Music” in Katowice. From March 29-31, this year’s edition will present the World Premiere performances of nearly 30 works by Polish composers of various generations, from young novices to…Continue Reading 8th Festival of Premieres “Polish Modern Music”
When Polish bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny and his pianist Lech Napierała step before their audience at New York’s Kosciuszko Foundation to perform perhaps the most famous song-cycle Winterreise by Franz Schubert they will offer the American premiere of a re-interpretation of the work with text by the Polish poet and translator Stanisław Barańczak. This event is organized in…Continue Reading Stanisław Barańczak re-imagines Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’
“Over a decade of my Ambisonic recordings sessions will culminate in two very different premieres in Seattle – on Feb.22 at Cornish College of the Arts featuring the Kin of the Moon ensemble, and on Feb.28, at the Meany Center for the Performing Arts as part of DXARTS / Music of Today concert series. We’ve recorded underground with Josiah Boothby (French horn)…Continue Reading Ewa Trębacz Premieres
Throughout February, Piotr Grella-Możejko‘s new work, Nature morte avec noir (à la memoire de Piotr de Peslin Lachert) for piano and saxophone, was performed in Canada and the US. Written in memory of Piotr Lachert, one of the most intriguing minds in contemporary arts, and whose powerful, unconventional music has been consistently ignored in his native…Continue Reading New Work by Piotr Grella-Mozejko
Górecki in Private Dr. Zofia Petrovich, together with her husband and PMC founders, Stefan and Wanda Wilk, were among the hosts during… Read more » …Continue Reading Gifts to PMC February 2019
In late January 2019 Joanna Bruzdowicz was featured in a live TVP3 program, Mistrzowie [The Masters], led by the journalist Miłka Skalska.… Read more » …Continue Reading Bruzdowicz Interview
by Marek Zebrowski One hundred and ten years ago, on February 8, 1909, an avalanche took the life of great Polish composer, Mieczysław Karłowicz. Although he was only 33 years old, his opus already included several large-scale symphonic works, a violin concerto and a number of songs for voice and piano. To commemorate this anniversary,…Continue Reading Karlowicz in Memoriam
by Marek Zebrowski The year 2019 will mark several important anniversaries for Polish musicians. The most prominent of them, Stanisław Moniuszko, was born 200 years ago, on May 5, 1819. Proclaimed the father of Polish opera, Moniuszko’s legacy will be celebrated with concerts, conferences, and reissues of his music throughout Poland and the world. The…Continue Reading Composers’ Anniversaries
Paweł Zagańczyk. Globulus. Cezary Paciorek Toccata Maciej Zimka Concerto Krzysztof Olczak Anioły Ciemności Krzesimir Dębski Musicophilia III Performers: Paweł Zagańczyk (accordion), Hanna Chylińska (violin), Aleksandra Denga (violin), Julianna An (violin), Justyna Światkowska (violin), Weronika Wiśniewska (viola), Maria Szagżdowicz (cello), Mateusz Kot (double bass), NeoQuartet. Opus Series 27 | 2018 [Source: polmic.pl]…Continue Reading Discography February 2019