Acclaimed new music chamber group Ensemble for These Times will perform at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust on Saturday, November 17 at 4:00 p.m. Entitled “Jewish Music & Poetry Project – Emigres & Exiles,” their program will include classical works by extraordinarily gifted Polish, Hungarian, Austrian and Czech composers who fled Europe in the 1930s-1940s,…Continue Reading Ensemble for These Times concert at LAMOTH
The Paderewski Festival is a four-day music festival held annually in November celebrating Paso Robles’ rich heritage and its most famous resident Ignacy Jan Paderewski—virtuoso pianist, composer, international politician, local landowner, grower and winemaker. 2018 Festival events include the Gala Concert featuring world-renowned pianist and Chopin Competition laureate Kate Liu, the world premiere of a…Continue Reading 2018 Paderewski Festival
On Saturday, October 27, the LMU College of Communication and Fine Arts – Department of Music presents Polish pianist Wojciech Kocyan in a faculty recital featuring works by Frédéric Chopin, Maria Szymanowska, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Karol Szymanowski, and Grażyna Bacewicz. Not only will audiences enjoy this excellent program of Polish composers, but also there will…Continue Reading Kocyan & ‘Warsaw 44’ at LMU
The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles will present a Polish Organ Music Concert on the occasion of the Centenary of Poland Regaining Independence, featuring organist Jan Bokszczanin from Warsaw’s Frederick Chopin Music Academy. The concert will feature Polish organ music through the ages including pieces by: Karol Szymanowski, Mieczysław Surzyński, Feliks…Continue Reading Polish Organ Music in LA
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and USC Polish Music Center present Duo Klavitarre Jolanta and Maciej Ziemski (Piano & Guitar) with Guest Artists Robin Braun, guitar Annika Schukow, piano Join us for a rare Los Angeles performance by Polish husband-and-wife musicians Jolanta and Maciej Ziemski, known worldwide as Duo Klavitarre, who will present an…Continue Reading Duo Klavitarre in Concert
Event Details Sunday, October 14, 2018 | 7:00 p.m. 2018 Paderewski Lecture-Recital: “Sounds of Independence” Alfred Newman Recital Hall, USC (see AHF on campus map) 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA Reception following the concert Admission is FREE and open to the public (no RSVP needed) Campus Parking: $12 – enter USC at McCarthy Way Gate, off of Figueroa…Continue Reading 2018: Sounds of Independence
On July 29, pianist Daniel Wnukowski will perform an all-Polish program of Mazurkas in Los Angeles. The program includes works by inter-war composers Karol Szymanowski, Zygmunt Stojowski, Grzegorz Fitelberg, Alexandre Tansman, and Karol Rathaus, as well as Fryderyk Chopin. This concert is a part of the Sundays Live series, held at the Los Angeles County…Continue Reading July 29: Pianist Daniel Wnukowski Live at LACMA
The Kupinski Guitar Duo—Ewa Jablczynska and Dariusz Kupinski— will perform a program of music for two guitars during the Sundays Live series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on July 22. Their program will include Rossini’s La Gazza Ladra overture, Chopin’s Two Mazurkas and a Waltz, Rachmaninov’s Prelude Opus 23 No. 5,” and…Continue Reading July 22: Kupinski Guitar Duo Live at LACMA
Paso Pops—the annual Paderewski Festival-sponsored patriotic concert and Independence Day celebration in Paso Robles combining wine, beer, food, family-friendly activities, live music and fireworks—will be held on Wednesday, July 4, 2018. The event moves to the Main Stage at the Paso Robles Event Center with a three-year agreement as part of this venue and date change….Continue Reading 2018 Paso Pops
Since 2017, the PMC and the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust in Pan Pacific Park have co-organized several concerts per year. The programs in this series spotlight works by Polish Jewish composers who are prominent in the PMC’s archive and library collections….Continue Reading Concerts at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust