This has been a very exciting half a year at the USC Polish Music Center, so exciting that we’ve barely had time to properly digitally welcome our newest staff member, Dr. Tomasz Fechner. Tomasz, or Tomek, has been a good friend of the PMC since 2015 when he was a classical guitar student at the…Continue Reading PMC Welcomes New Staff Member: Dr. Tomasz Fechner
The new Flute Concerto by Marta Ptaszyńska—well-known Polish composer who is Professor Emerita of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago and honoree of the PMC’s 2005 Paderewski Lecture-Recital, as well as a significant donor to our unique Manuscript Collection—was world premiered on Sunday, October 29. The premiere performance was given by flutist…Continue Reading Ptaszyńska World Premiere
Krzysztof Meyer, a distinguished Polish composer who celebrated his eightieth birthday earlier this year, was celebrated once again after the October 14 premiere of his latest opera, Ślepy tor [Dead-end Siding] at Warsaw’s Teatr Wielki—National Opera. The opera’s libretto, co-authored by the composer with Antoni Libera (a writer and expert on Samuel Beckett), touches on…Continue Reading World Premiere of Meyer’s New Opera
For the third year in a row, the New York City based Polish violinist Kinga Augustyn is performing in Italy during the fall season. This year she is presenting two concerts with the MÁV Symphony Orchestra from Budapest. The first, on October 25 is at the historical Teatro dal Verme in Milan. The second two…Continue Reading Kinga Augustyn in Italy
Since his six-month residency at the PMC as Fulbright Scholar ended in July, pianist Andrzej Ślązak returned to Poland a few months ago and almost immediately began presenting to the public the results of his extensive research in our archives. Ślązak’s main areas of scholarly inquiry included film and orchestral music in our Bronisław Kaper…Continue Reading Ślązak Performs in Vienna and Kielce