On Saturday, October 21 Polish pianist and Loyola Marymount University faculty member Wojciech Kocyan gave a Faculty Piano Recital. He was joined on the stage of LMU’s Murphy Recital Hall by special guest artist Yoshika Masuda – cello. Wojciech Kocyan was born in Poland. From age six to eighteen he studied with Krystyna Moszynska. He also studied with…Continue Reading Kocyan Performs in LA
Following their stellar performance at the Polish Music Center’s Paderewski Lecture-Recital and other touring around the US, the Cracow Duo will be back in Los Angeles this weekend for two exciting programs of Polish music. First, on October 28, they will perform with the New Zimro Ensemble at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center in Pasadena, CA….Continue Reading Cracow Duo in LA
Warsaw’s Grand Theatre and National Opera opeed its fall season with performances of new production of Ludomir Różycki’s opera Eros i Psyche on October 13, 15, 17 and 19. Barbara Wysocka directed the new staging of this work and the recently appointed musical director, Maestro Grzegorz Nowak, led the orchestra. Based on a story by Jaerzy Żuławski, the…Continue Reading Różycki’s Eros I Psyche in Warsaw
The 4th edition of “Concert Premieres of Accordion Works” will be held on October 3, 2017 at 6 p.m. in the concert hall of the Władysław Żeleński School of Music in Kraków. The goal of this free event is to present high quality artistic compositions written for accordion which have not been performed before. The…Continue Reading Premieres of Accordion Works
Flutists Łukasz Długosz and Agata Kielar-Długosz with pianist Andrzej Jungiewiczpresented world premieres of works by Rafał Augustyn and Wojciech Widłak at the Radziejowice Palace on Oct. 14. The pair of flutists were also the dedicatees of these pieces. Part of the “Composers’ Commissions” [Zamówienia kompozytorskie] program operated by the Institute of Music and Dance, this concert was co-organized by the Piąta Esencja Foundation. Describing his work Matrimonium for…Continue Reading World Premieres of Augustyn and Widłak
It is not common for an audience to witness a modern premiere of a composition by a prominent author, created more than a century ago. Yet that is exactly what is happening on Oct. 15 at the National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw, when Sinfonia Iuventus presents the world premiere of Anton Rubinstein’s sacred opera Moses, Op. 112. This…Continue Reading Anton Rubinstein’s Moses in Warsaw
On October 27, the Kalisz Philharmonic under the baton of Natalia Ponomarczuk will present the world premiere of Marta Ptaszyńska’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, with Clare Hammond as soloist. This is what the composer said about her work: I finished the Concerto at the beginning of July 2017. Before starting to work on it, I considered at length its form…Continue Reading Ptaszyńska’s Piano Concerto Premiere
On Wednesday, October 18, 2017, the Gala Opening of the 18th Annual Polish Film Festival Los Angeles will take place in Hollywood. At this star-studded gala, both Polish and American moviemakers, actors and industry professionals will walk the red carpet at Hollywood’s legendary Egyptian Theatre and view a screening of The Art of Loving. Story of Michalina Wislocka [Sztuka…Continue Reading Preview: 2017 Polish Film Festival LA
The Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra opens its 2017/2018 Season with a September 16 concert at the National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw. Maestro Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk will lead the ensemble in two large works that are also warhorses of the concert repertoire: Brahms’s Violin Concerto Op. 77 with violin soloist Jakub Jakowicz and Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra. Since 2008…Continue Reading Iuventus in Play: Brahms and Lutosławski
The first September Concert was held in New York City in 2002 as a small-scale, local event. Its scope and influence had steadily risen since that time, and now this project encompasses almost the entire globe. Concerts under the “September Concert” rubric are meant to promote peace and humanitarian activism through music. The September Concert…Continue Reading The September Concerts in Poland