Day: April 25, 2025

Winners of the 2025 Penderecki Competition for Young Composers

On March 24, 2025, the winners of the 8th International Krzysztof Penderecki Competition for Young Composers, organized by the Kraków Branch of the Polish Composers’ Union (ZKP), were revealed. The competition jury—comprised of Marcel Chyrzyński (chairman), Zbigniew Bargielski, Ivan Buffa (Slovakia), Federico Gardella (Italy), Jeajoon Ryu (South Korea), and Wojciech Widłak, with competition secretary Aleksandra…Continue Reading Winners of the 2025 Penderecki Competition for Young Composers

Premiere of One-Act Opera Celebrating Sustainability by Baczewski

On April 11 in Italy, the one-act opera Jezioro Popiołów [Lake of Ashes] by Beniamin Baczewski (b. 1991) will had its world premiere. The opera was created as part of the “Project Butterfly“ International Composition Competition, a collaboration between three European institutions: the Teatro Comunale di Modena (Italy), Opera Box in Helsinki (Finland), and the Baltic Opera…Continue Reading Premiere of One-Act Opera Celebrating Sustainability by Baczewski

World Premieres at the 2025 Krakow Int’l Festival of Composers

The Krakow International Festival of Composers has long been a vital platform for showcasing contemporary music, both from Poland and abroad. As it enters its 37th edition this May, the festival continues its legacy of commissioning, supporting, and celebrating new music with an impressive lineup of thirty-one world premieres. Held annually since 1989, this Festival…Continue Reading World Premieres at the 2025 Krakow Int’l Festival of Composers

Kinga Augustyn Across the US in May

Following on her triumphant return to Santiago, Chile to perform Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in April, Polish violinist Kinga Augustyn returns to the US for several concerts across the country in May. It starts with a Spring Concert in her adopted home of New York City at the John Paul II Friendship Center on…Continue Reading Kinga Augustyn Across the US in May