- 2024 Constitution Day Gala in LAMay 3, 2024 marked the 233rd anniversary of Poland’s Constitution. This remarkable document was celebrated in downtown Los Angeles last Friday, with a gala event sponsored by the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland…Continue Reading 2024 Constitution Day Gala in LA
- 2024 Baird Competition for Young ComposersOn April 26, the winners of the 65th Jubilee Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers were unveiled during the Competition’s final concert, which was held for the first time at the Baird Philharmonic in Zielona…Continue Reading 2024 Baird Competition for Young Composers
- PMC Gifts: April 2024Writings on Paderewski & Chopin This month we received yet another donation from Rich Widerynski, a longtime PMC friend and supporter of not only the Polish Music Center but many Polish-American organizations in California. This…Continue Reading PMC Gifts: April 2024
- US Premiere of Wars’s ‘City Sketches’On May 11 in Georgia, the Augusta Symphony will be led by their Music Director—German conductor Dirk Meyer—in the US Premiere of City Sketches by Henryk Wars. This jazzy suite fits perfectly on a program…Continue Reading US Premiere of Wars’s ‘City Sketches’
- Ptaszyńska’s World Premiere and Other NewsThe world premiere of Marta Ptaszyńska’s latest work, Crystallites Polyphony for string quartet and marimba, will take place on May 31 at the Polish Consulate of Chicago. The program will include a number of works…Continue Reading Ptaszyńska’s World Premiere and Other News
- Premieres at the 2024 Cracow Int’l Composers’ FestivalThe 36th Cracow International Composers’ Festival took place from April 20-28, 2024. It was held under the theme of “Mathematics in music,” which was also the topic of the musicological session held during the Festival….Continue Reading Premieres at the 2024 Cracow Int’l Composers’ Festival
- Karłowicz in CharlestonMaestro Wojciech Milewski will close the 20th season of the Summerville Orchestra with Odwieczne pieśni [Eternal Songs], a symphonic triptych by Mieczysław Karłowicz, in concerts on May 17 and 18. Entitled “A Summerville Celebration” and…Continue Reading Karłowicz in Charleston
- Dominika Zamara: Solo Recital Debut in NYCOperatic soprano Dominika Zamara will appear in her New York City debut solo recital, An Evening with Dominika Zamara, on May 22 at Mary Flagler Cary Hall. She will premiere eight new works by several…Continue Reading Dominika Zamara: Solo Recital Debut in NYC
- Fryderyk 2024: Classical Music WinnersThe 30th Classical Music Gala was held this past weekend as part of the 2024 Fryderyk Awards Festival on April 28 headquarters of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR) in Katowice. An equivalent to…Continue Reading Fryderyk 2024: Classical Music Winners
- Concert: 20th Anniversary of Poland Joining the EUBeauty, sublimity and message: two masterpieces by Ludwig van Beethoven and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, which have gone down in high musical culture as embodying these traits, will be performed on April 26 at the Kraków…Continue Reading Concert: 20th Anniversary of Poland Joining the EU
The Polish Music Newsletter (ISSN 1098-9188) is a chronicle of news and events happening around the world related to Polish classical, jazz and folk music. Published monthly since 1994, it has been edited by Krysta Close since June 2003, with editorial assistance provided by Daniel Kamiński from June 2005 until June 2010.
From May 2002-2004, the Newsletter was co-edited by Krysta Close/Wanda Wilk.
Before May 2002, the Newsletter was co-edited by Maja Trochimczyk/Wanda Wilk. (From December 1994-September 2000, it was called the PMRC Newsletter.)
The Newsletters are financially supported by a generous donation from the Dr. & Mrs. Matthew S. Mickiewicz Family Fund, California.