New PMC Website is Live!
The Polish Music Center’s pioneering website has been serving musicians, scholars and the interested public worldwide since 1994. In 2017, we announced our intention to… Read more »
03. March 2018
2018 Paso Pops
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… Read more »
Kuropaczewski In Classical Guitar Magazine
The Winter 2017 issue of Classical Guitar Magazine features the article “Lukasz Kuropaczewski Honors Poland’s Composers, Teaches Next Generation.” In it, author Steve Mann interviews Polish guitarist… Read more »
‘Jeune Chopin’ International Competition for Children & Youth
The aim of the Frédéric Chopin Institute in Switzerland is to promote the work of the greatest Polish composer and to organize musical events focused mainly on… Read more »
Zimerman & Nowak In Italy
Having toured Italy together last November, the world renowned pair of Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman and Polish conductor Grzegorz Nowak returned to that country on March 11 to reprise… Read more »
2018 Chopin FDN Opportunities For Young Pianists
Presented in partnership with the Chopin Foundation of the United States, the Frost Chopin Academy will be held for pianists up to the age of 28 from June… Read more »
Interview with Katarzyna Sądej
Related to her recent performances as Prince Charming in Ottawa, Canada, mezzo-soprano Katarzyna Sądej gave an interview on February 16 that is available on www.youtube.com. Casual yet informative,… Read more »
Beethoven Eastertide Festival
The 22nd annual Beethoven Festival will take place March 16-30 at the National Philharmonicin Warsaw and will feature a number of distinguished musicians and ensembles in thirteen orchestral… Read more »
March Discography
Success For Wawrowski’s Brillante Violinist Janusz Wawrowski recorded his last album, Brillante (Warner Classics 0190295808440), with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker and Daniel Raiskin, and it was released at the end of… Read more »
March Anniversaries
Born This Month: 1 March 1810 – Fryderyk Chopin, virtuoso pianist, composer 2 March 1927 – Witold Szalonek, composer (d. 2001) 3 March 1922 – Kazimierz… Read more »
Early Romantic Songs At The Royal Castle
Marta Boberska, one of the soloists of Poland’s Royal Opera, and pianist Emilian Madey presented a recital of early romantic lieder at Warsaw’s Royal Castle on March… Read more »
50th Anniversary Of March 1968
A symphonic concert commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the events of March 1968—during which an anti-semetic purge drove as many as 20,000 Jews from Poland—was… Read more »
‘Forbidden Songs’ – Palester Celebration
“Forbidden Songs: Lost Music of Midcentury Poland”—a two-day festival exploring the fraught artistic and personal decisions confronted under repressive regimes—will be held on March 17-18… Read more »
‘Forgotten Polish Music’ In Opole
Much of the music in the deep treasury of forgotten Polish music—often discovered only after many years of non-existence—can still surprise us. The next symphonic… Read more »
March Premieres
Composing Commissions Premieres in March The following are details on various premieres supported by the “Collections – Composing Commissions” program, which is funded by the Ministry… Read more »
Independence Centenary
Paderewski at the National Museum A few weeks ago, the National Museum in Warsaw officially opened its Paderewski Exhibit, drawing on the extensive collection of papers, artwork, personal… Read more »
Gifts to PMC February 2018
From Dr. Grzegorz Mania, president of the Polish Chamber Music Society [Stowarzyszenie Polskich Muzyków Kameralistów], we recevied the recently published volume, Czytanie a vista w szkole muzycznej… Read more »
Polish Jewish Conference & Concert
The Fifth Annual Polish Jewish Studies Workshop “Centering the Periphery: Polish Jewish Production Beyond the Capital” with the accompanying concert “Soundscapes of Modernity: Jews and… Read more »