On November 6-7, the Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles will present this year’s exciting lineup of concerts and accompanying events. Due to the pandemic and social distancing restrictions, all of the 2020 Festival events will take place online. On Friday, November 6, the Festival will celebrate Ignacy Jan Paderewski’s 160th birthday with an online Gala…Continue Reading 2020 PADEREWSKI FESTIVAL IN PASO ROBLES
On October 30, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Jukka Tiensuu’s nemo and Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 with conductor Tarmo Peltokoski and Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski. The concert will be held at the Helsinki Music Centre, but will be live-streamed via the venue’s website at areena.yle.fi and will continue to be viewable following the live…Continue Reading Anderszewski in Finland
The Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles announces the winners of the 2020 Youth Piano Competition. Due to the pandemic, this year’s Youth Competition auditions were held virtually and participants were invited to submit their performance by video. The jurors—Cal Poly professors India D’Avignon and Paul Woodring, and Paderewski Festival Artistic Director and USC Polish Music…Continue Reading 2020 Paderewski Festival Youth Piano Competition
A virtual lecture entitled “Music and Resilience in Early Postwar Poland” will be presented by Mackenzie Pierce, assistant professor of musicology at the University of Michigan, on October 28. This event is hosted by U-M’s Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies (CREES) in the ‘CREES Noon Lecture’ series. Registration for this Zoom webinar…Continue Reading Virtual Lecture: “Music and Resilience in Early Postwar Poland”
Dr. Nancy Fierro, a Los Angeles area pianist long associated with the Polish Music Center and a devoted champion of women composers, recently uploaded some of her recorded performances to YouTube. Her first batch of links features works by Maria Szymanowska (1789-1831), a brilliant pianist and composer who was one of the first professional virtuosos…Continue Reading Fierro on YouTube
The 2020 Gramophone Classical Music Awards—presented in collaboration with Apple Music, E. Gutzwiller & Cie, Banquiers and Help Musicians UK—held an outdoor and virtual ceremony on the evening of October 6. The ceremony can still be viewed online at Youtube. During the ceremony, recipients of the Recording of the Year Award, Artist and Young Artist…Continue Reading Weinberg Takes Gramophone Recording of the Year
The premiere of Krzysztof Herdzin’s Te Deum in memory of St. John Paul II will take place on 16 October 2020 at 7:00 p.m. at the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz. The concert will also be broadcast on the Philharmonic’s YouTube channel. Te Deum by Krzysztof Herdzin was commissioned by the Marshal of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship…Continue Reading Premiere of Herdzin’s “Te Deum” in Bydgoszcz
The 49th Polish Composers’ Union Musicological Conference will be held from 25-27 October 2020 at the Academy of Music in Kraków. This year’s theme of “Theory of Music: Musicology here and now. Resonance of the past – Contemporary challenges.” Organized by the Musicologists’ Section of the Polish Composers’ Union (ZKP), presenters will be divided into…Continue Reading 49th Polish Composers’ Union Musicological Conference
The Kraków branch of the Association of Polish Chamber Musicians (SPMK) is presenting a unique concert series. The “Intergenerational Academy of Music: Kraków / Dobczyce” will be held from 13 September – 14 December 2020 at the Villa Decius in Kraków and the Mayor M. Pawlak Regional Educational and Sports Centre in Dobczyce. The project involves a…Continue Reading Multigenerational musical meetings are back!
Presentations of new works in the series “Contemporary Chamber Miniature in the Times of Pandemic. Premieres” continued in September and ended on October 1, International Music Day. Organized by the Academy of Music in Poznań, the premieres in this series were presented by outstanding professors of the Academy and broadcast via the Academy’s website, Facebook page and YouTube channel….Continue Reading Premieres of Contemporary Chamber Miniatures