The USC Polish Music Center presents a program of Polish music used in or written for films, as a part of the USC Thornton “Music @ Rush Hour” concert series. Works by Frederic Chopin, Wojciech Kilar and Henryk Wars will be performed by Thornton students: Bradley Bascon and Johnny May, violins; Jenny Sung, viola; Allan…Continue Reading Chopin, Kilar and Wars: Polish film music at Music @ Rush Hour
Please enjoy the following Polish music events happening in Los Angeles this month… Thornton Baroque Sinfonia: Musical Treasures of the Polish Baroque Rotem Gilbert and the USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia present Musica Polonica III: Musical Treasures of the Polish Baroque, Polish masterworks of the Baroque era. OCTOBER 11, 2019 | 8:00 P.M. USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia:…Continue Reading Los Angeles Events – October 2019
Psychiatrist and concert pianist Richard Kogan is renowned for his lecture/concerts that explore the influence of psychological factors and psychiatric and medical illness on the creative output of composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Gershwin, Bernstein, and Joplin. Sharing insight into some of the most creative minds, he opens his audiences’…Continue Reading Music and Medicine: Chopin and the Power of Resilience
Event Details Saturday, October 12, 2019 | 8:00 p.m. 2019 Paderewski Lecture-Recital, feat. 3 Paderewskis Alfred Newman Recital Hall, USC (see AHF on campus map) 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA Admission is FREE and open to the public (no RSVP needed) Campus Parking: $14 – enter USC at McCarthy Way Gate, off of Figueroa St….Continue Reading 2019: Three Paderewskis
On September 7, there will be a concert of Polish music at the Santa Monica Public Library to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the beginning of World War II. The program features the music of Wojciech Kilar from the score of The Pianist (2000), as well as works by Frederic Chopin, Karol Szymanowski, Grażyna Bacewicz,…Continue Reading Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Outbreak of World War II
There will be two special concerts in Los Angeles this weekend featuring the Darek Oles Trio: bassist Darek “Oles” Oleszkiewicz, pianist Kuba Stankiewicz, drummer Tina Raymond. Previously featured at the Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and on prestigious recordings for Warner Music Poland, the trio will also be…Continue Reading Darek Oles Trio in L.A., July 12 & 14
This year’s edition of the prestigious iPalpiti Festival (July 5-20, 2019) will feature Agnieszka Podłucka, a young superstar violist from Łódź, Poland, performing at venues throughout Southern California. On July 10, Podłucka will share the stage with Hungarian violinist Samuel Nebyu and Trio Zadig from France, performing Rachmaninoff’s Trio elegiaque, Bernstein’s Candide, and more. On…Continue Reading Agnieszka Podlucka with iPalpiti in L.A.
Vivid Reveries Held on May 25, the concert ‘Vivid Reveries’ will cap the 2018/2019 Jacaranda Music Series season. ‘Vivid Reveries’ will feature highly acclaimed former LA Phil principal clarinetist, Michele Zukovsky, and Los Angeles contemporary music scene favorite, pianist Gloria Cheng, for a classic pair of 20th century duos: Alban Berg’s expressionist Four Pieces, and…Continue Reading Polish Music at Jacaranda
On 3 March 2019, the LA Museum of the Holocaust will present a rare Los Angeles performance by Polish-Canadian pianist Daniel Wnukowski, who will perform an all-Polish program of Mazurkas. The program will include works by Chopin as well as lesser-known Polish-Jewish composers who survived the Holocaust. Daniel Wnukowski has performed throughout Europe, North America, South…Continue Reading Daniel Wnukowski at LA Museum of the Holocaust
Saturday, 23 March 2019 | 4:00 P.M. Polish Music Spring: Celebrating Anniversaries Concert Alfred Newman Recital Hall, USC (see AHF on campus map) 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA FREE Admission Campus parking: $12 – Enter campus at Vermont Ave & 36th Pl and park in the Downey Way Structure. Avoid Figueroa Blvd, which will…Continue Reading Polish Music Spring: Celebrating Anniversaries