On November 11, the Polish Music Center celebrates Poland’s Independence Day with a concert featuring virtuoso violinist Mariusz Patyra and pianist Krzysztof Herdzin in a program of music by Polish composers. Join the Honorable Mariusz Brymora, Consul General of the Republic of Poland, representatives of the City of Los Angeles and the diplomatic corps at this…Continue Reading Poland’s Independence Day Celebrated At USC
The Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles is pleased to announce the winners of the eighth annual Youth Piano Competition held October 25 at Cass Winery in Paso Robles. Twenty young pianists from three Central Coast Counties (Santa Barbara, Monterey and San Luis Obispo) competed for cash prizes of $100-$750, the opportunity to perform at the…Continue Reading 2014 Paderewski Youth Piano Competition Winners
by Marek Żebrowski The centenary of Sir Andrzej Panufnik was celebrated with two concerts on the USC campus in early October. The first, Polish Music Center’s annual Paderewski Lecture-Recital on October 5, was devoted to Panufnik’s chamber music. The program began with the composer’s widow, Lady Camilla, delivering a lecture about her husband’s life and…Continue Reading Panufnik’s Music at USC
In mid-October, PMC Director Marek Żebrowski spent a very brief weekend in Kraków to honor the crowning achievement in the long and successful career of musicologist, writer/editor and PMC friend, Teresa Chylińska. He wrote the following dispatch about the events of the weekend below: October 18 was an important day for Polish music—it will be…Continue Reading Chylińska’s Magnum Opus
From the Polish Music Information Centre in Warsaw: Zbigniew Penherski (Polish Music Today series – polmic 089/PRCD 1741) Lidia Zielińska (Polish Music Today series – polmic 090/PRCD 1742) Tadeusz Wielecki (Polish Music Today series – polmic 092/PRCD 1744) Anna Zawadzka-Gołosz (Polish Music Today series – polmic 093/PRCD 1745) Jacek Grudzień (Polish Music Today series –…Continue Reading Recent Donations To The PMC
by Marta Gargas-Borowy Composer Roman Ryterband was born in Poland in 1914, and thus his centenary has been celebrated throughout 2014. Having left Poland during World War II, Ryterband and his family settled in Palm Springs, CA in 1967 and his life became forever intertwined with the cultural fabric of Southern Calfornia. Marking November as…Continue Reading Ryterband Anniversary Year
Panufnik 100 In London On 30 November 2014, the Brodsky Quartet and the Panufnik family and friends present Panufnik 100: A Family Celebration, a chamber music festival to mark the centenary of Anglo-Polish composer Andrzej Panufnik’s birth. Held at Kings Place London, the Panufnik family brings together an impressive roster of artists to celebrate the life and…Continue Reading Panufnik Anniversary Year
Music, passion, atmosphere, but most of all–performing stars that can be envied by the biggest concert halls in the world–these are the basic elements of a composition called Kwartesencja.” – Art Radio From November 14-16, 2014, Polish Radio’s Lutosławski Concert Studio will resonate with the unique music conjured by the Kwartesencja Festival. Inspired and…Continue Reading Premieres at Kwartesencja 2014
On Friday, October 10, during their “Concert de musique de films France Musique – SACEM / Hommage à Roman Polanski,” the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra performed the world premiere of Paweł Mykietyn’s Hommage à Oskar Dawicki. This piece was commissioned by the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra. During the same concert, the winner of the 2014 Prix France Musique…Continue Reading Mykietyn Premiered In France
The 43rd Musicological Conference of the Polish Composers’ Union [ZKP] was held at the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz Oct. 9-11. This annual forum is the biggest and most prestigious meeting for musicologists and music theorists in Poland. Organized under the theme of “Music Among Other Arts—Connections and Inspirations,” this year’s conference sought to demonstrate the links between music…Continue Reading World Premiere at Musicology Conference in Bydgoszcz