Winners of the 59th Tadeusz Baird Young Composers Competition
The final concert of ZKP’s 59th Tadeusz Baird Young Composers’ Competition was held on June 14 at the Warsaw headquarters of Polish Music Editions (PWM). The… Read more »
06. June 2018
Open Days at NOSPR & Wojciechowski Premiere
On June 17, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR), a beneficiary of EU funds, will participate in the 5th Open Days of European Funds… Read more »
Yukio Yokoyama Celebrates Paderewski
A piano recital by Yukio Yokoyama celebrating the 77th anniversary of the death of Ignacy Jan Paderewski will be held on June 23 at the… Read more »
100 Years of Independence in Bydgoszcz
The Ignacy Jan Paderewski Pomeranian Philharmonic celebrated the centennial anniversary of Poland’s independence with a concert on June 15 in Bydgoszcz. The program featured Wojciech… Read more »
2018 “Sinfonia Varsovia to Its City” Festival
The 18th Franciszek Wybrańczyk “Sinfonia Varsovia to Its City” Festival is taking place from 16–23 June 2018 in Warsaw. This year, the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra… Read more »
4th Kwadrofonik Festival in Warsaw
The 4th Kwadrofonik Festival will take place between June 11 – July 2, 2018 in Warsaw, with performances and events centered around the theme of… Read more »
“Polish Music Too Little Known” in Katowice
The latest concert from the “Polish Music Too Little Known” series was held on June 14 in the Chamber Hall of the Polish National Radio… Read more »
ElectroKilar in Katowice
Works by Wojciech Kilar were performed in modern electronic arrangements by Szymon Padoła, a Katowice-based DJ, composer and producer known as 5cet, and musicians of… Read more »
2018 Witold Lutosławski Society Stipend
The Witold Lutosławski Society has announced its 2018 competition for a scholarship granted by the Composer’s Family. A scholarship of $10,000 USD for master’s education… Read more »
Obituary: Prof. Stanisław Moryto
Former president of the Chopin Music University in Warsaw, Professor Stanisław Moryto died on June 5 after a long illness. He was 71. One of… Read more »
PWM’s May Composer of the Month: Andrzej Kwieciński
Young, resourceful, ambitious, unconventional, surprising and courageous—these epithets accompanied the selection of Andrzej Kwieciński (b.1984) as Composer of the Month, named by Poland’s largest music… Read more »
Piotr Grella-Mozejko – World Premiere
The premiere of The Hands of Sulawesi II (in memory of Alfred Joel Fisher) for piano solo (2018) by Polish-Canadian composer Piotr Grella-Możejko was held… Read more »
“Under the white and red flag” with Herdzin
On June 8, the Elbląg Chamber Orchestra and the Krakow Reed Trio were led by Krzysztof Herdzin, as pianist and conductor, during the 15th “Polityka”… Read more »
New CD from Hashtag Ensemble
#NetworkMusic Wojciech Błażejczyk: #NetworkMusic (2017); Dariusz Przybylski: Chamber Concerto (2017); Ignacy Zalewski: Chamber Concerto No. 2 Pamięci zniknionego (2017); Adam Porębski: DysKulacje (2017); Mikołaj Majkusiak:… Read more »
Olga Tokarczuk wins 2018 Man Booker Prize
Award-winning and bestselling Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, and her translator, Jennifer Croft, won the Man Booker International Prize for the novel Flights, which was published… Read more »
New on DUX
FOR YOU, ANNE-LILL Wojciech Kilar: Sonatina for flute and piano (1951); Witold Lutosławski: Three Fragments for flute and piano (1953); Andrzej Panufnik: Hommage a Chopin… Read more »
2018 Kraków Film Music Festival & Awards
The new decade of the Film Music Festival’s history will start with a combination of apparently distant music genres, not only the ones composed specifically… Read more »
Music Festival “Trzy-Czte-Ry. Contexts. Contrasts. Confrontations.”
Held from 22 May – 12 June 2018 in Warsaw, the program of the 3rd annual “Trzy-Czte-Ry. Contexts. Contrasts. Confrontations” Music Festival will feature works… Read more »
Orliński and Biel perform “Beauty and Perfection”
At the invitation of the “Silesia” Institution for the Promotion and Dissemination of Music, counter-tenor Jakub Józef Orliński (above) and pianist Michał Biel performed their program… Read more »
Concert: Elżbieta Chojnacka in memoriam
The Polish Music Council and the Polish Composers’ Union held a concert to commemorate harpsichord virtuosa Elżbieta Chojnacka on the first anniversary of her death.… Read more »