Dear Friends of the Polish Music Center, Before sharing the annual PMC summary and our latest news, we would first like to express hope that you and your family have not suffered any hardships or ill health during the long months of the pandemic. It has been a truly extraordinary year in almost every respect…Continue Reading 2020 PMC Recap ~ Please support us into 2021!
The Cracow Wind Quintet will premiere Maciej Zieliński‘s Impressioni Concertante on 11 December 2020 at the Gorzów Philharmonic during an online chamber concert in the “Masters of Chamber Music” series. Polish artists acclaimed in the country and abroad, pianist Beata Bilińska and the Cracow Wind Quintet, will perform in the Gorzów Philharmonic’s Chamber Hall. The program…Continue Reading Cracow Wind Quintet & Maciej Zieliński Premiere
“Music in the image. Image in the sound” is a series of concerts, workshops, and lectures promoting contemporary music, organized by the Elżbieta Chojnacka Centre for Contemporary Harpsichord Music. The final concert will be broadcast on 10 December 2020 on the Modern Harpsichord YouTube channel. Musical works inspired by painting, literature, mathematics, architecture, industry, and the…Continue Reading “Music in the image. Image in the sound”: Final Concert
Since its creation in 2004, Kwartesencja Festival has represented not only the essence of the most beautiful, intimate chamber music-making, but also the answer to the question of what the modern world sounds like. The last concert of this year’s edition will be held online on 11 December 2020, featuring music by Krzysztof Penderecki and…Continue Reading 16th Kwartesencja Festival: Premiere of Aleksander Nowak’s String Quartet No. 3
The Baltic Sea Cultural Center in Gdańsk in cooperation with the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music and the Department of Composition of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk present the concert “Sound Winter Gardens” on 10 December 2020 at 7.00 p.m. This year’s last concert in the series “New Music in the Old Town Hall”…Continue Reading “New Music in the Old Town Hall”: Sound Winter Gardens
On November 27, 2020, the winner of the 17th Tadeusz Ochlewski Competition was announced by the jury. The theme of this year’s Competition was to compose a piece for a string quartet. This theme was not accidental: in the year of the 75th anniversary of the Competition’s organizer—Polish Music Editions, or PWM—it was decided to…Continue Reading Winner of the 2020 Ochlewski Competition for Composers
The 19th Silesian Days of Contemporary Music, organized by the Polish Composers’ Union (ZKP), is being held from 19 November to 8 December 2020. The first concert, performed by the MagDuś Duo (pianist Magdalena Duś and saxophonist Bartłomiej Duś), featured Przemysław Szczotka’s Simbiosis, written especially for the duo, and the premiere of Stanisław Bromboszcz’s Monodrama…Continue Reading 19th Silesian Days of Contemporary Music – Premieres
The title of a debut album of Polish violist Krzysztof Komendarek-Tymendorf, “ReVIOLAtion, is far from coincidental and implies a “viola revolution.” The disc released by Naxos Records will be available on 27 November 2020. To many music professionals and aficionados, the viola continues to occupy a lower position on the podium in a unique competition for…Continue Reading Krzysztof Komendarek-Tymendorf’s debut album “ReViolation”
42 concerts and broadcasts, 8 world premieres, and countless emotions – this is what the 8th “International Days of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki” Festival has to offer to its audience. The inauguration took place on the 10th anniversary of the composer’s death, on 12 November 2020, and the last concert will take place on his birth…Continue Reading Int’l Days of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Festival 2020
On Friday, December 4, the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw will perform a program including works by Andrzej Panufnik, Wojciech Kilar, and W.A. Mozart, as well as the Polish premiere of a 2008 work by Austrian composer Kurt Schwertsik. The soloist for the first Polish performance of Schwertsik’s Now you hear me, now you don’t,…Continue Reading Panufnik, Kilar at Warsaw Philharmonic