Blending beloved Polish favorites by Chopin and Paderewski with a lesser known work by Aleksander Tansman and a world premiere by Marcel Chyrzyński, this year’s PMC Spring Concert is not to be missed. Presented by the USC Polish Music Center on Saturday, March 28 at 4:00 p.m., the concert will feature the Cracow Duo. Comprised…Continue Reading 2026 PMC Spring Concert: Cracow Duo Premieres Chyrzyński
Organized by the USC Polish Music Center, celebrations across Los Angeles of the artistic and intellectual legacy of Szymon Laks (1901-1983) will be held on October 19. Paris-based Polish Jewish composer and writer Szymon Laks’s music uniquely balances elements of French modernism, Polish folk music and American jazz. The composer survived imprisonment at Auschwitz by…Continue Reading 19 Oct 2025: Paderewski Lecture-Recital & Conversation with André Laks
Polish composer Marcel Chyrzyński was recently recognized with two Silver Medals at the prestigious Global Music Awards (USA), in the category of Contemporary Classical – Composer. In March 2025, Chyrzyński was awarded for works featured on the album Marcel Chyrzyński – Chamber Works (DUX 2001), recorded by Piotr Lato (clarinet), Wojciech Koprowski (violin), Jan Kalinowski…Continue Reading Chyrzyński Honored & PMC Spring Concert Preview
Presented on the evening of October 19 in USC’s Newman Recital Hall, the PMC’s 2025 Paderewski Lecture-Recital will explore the artistic and intellectual legacy of Szymon Laks (1901-1983). A Paris-based Polish composer, writer and philosopher, Laks’s music uniquely balances elements of French modernism, Polish folk music and American jazz. Guest lecturer Dr. Grzegorz Mania (pictured…Continue Reading Save the Date for the 2025 Paderewski Lecture Recital!
We’re excited to share the recordings from the 2025 Polish Music Center Spring Concert, which are now available on YouTube. This year’s concert, held on March 29 in USC’s Newman Recital Hall, featured the internationally acclaimed AKA Duo—violinist Seina Matsuoka and pianist Yuto Kiguchi. Dedicated to exploring Polish repertoire, the AKA Duo has built a…Continue Reading 2025 PMC Spring Concert Recordings with AKA Duo
This year’s edition of the Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles is the twentieth since it was restarted as a single concert at Cass Winery in 2006, at the initiative of the USC Polish Music Center. The Festival has since blossomed into a four-day event, filled with music, wine tastings, tours and other events held in…Continue Reading 2025 Paderewski Festival Preview: Nov. 6-9
On April 15, 2025, LA-based pianist Aron Kallay will perform a concert titled Friends and Family. The program of the event is centered around two new commissions written in memory of loved ones. Among them is Capriccio notturno (2025) by PMC director Marek Zebrowski, composed in honor of Kallay’s grandmother, Cecilia Viola Kallay. The piece…Continue Reading Zebrowski Premiere at Kallay’s Los Angeles Concert
As a part of the ongoing collaborative series presented by the PMC and the Holocaust Museum LA, the AKA Duo will perform a program of historic works by Polish-Jewish composers at the Museum on March 30. The unmistakable tones of acclaimed Japanese violinist Seina Matsuoka and pianist Yuto Kiguchi will reverberate through this poignant and sonorous…Continue Reading AKA Duo Concert at the Holocaust Museum LA
On March 29, the AKA Duo makes a triumphant return to Los Angeles for the Polish Music Center’s Spring Concert in USC’s Newman Recital Hall. Comprised of violinist Seina Matsuoka and pianist Yuto Kiguchi, this acclaimed Japanese ensemble has focused much of their repertoire on Polish composers. In 2023, they became the first Asian winners of the…Continue Reading 2025 PMC Spring Concert: AKA Duo at USC
On March 1, audiences in Southern California will have the pleasure to hear the Zarębski Piano Duo in an all-Polish program of works for piano four-hands, as a part of the Duo’s 2025 US tour. Held at the Santa Monica Public Library, the performance will include works by Ignacy Friedman, Hanna Kulenty, Maurycy Moszkowski, Anna Rocławska-Musialczyk, Aleksander Tansman,…Continue Reading Zarębski Piano Duo: Polish Music for 4-Hands in LA