Anderszewski in Finland
On October 30, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Jukka Tiensuu’s nemo and Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 with conductor Tarmo Peltokoski and Polish pianist… Read more »
2020
2020 Paderewski Festival Youth Piano Competition
The Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles announces the winners of the 2020 Youth Piano Competition. Due to the pandemic, this year’s Youth Competition auditions were… Read more »
Virtual Lecture: “Music and Resilience in Early Postwar Poland”
A virtual lecture entitled “Music and Resilience in Early Postwar Poland” will be presented by Mackenzie Pierce, assistant professor of musicology at the University of… Read more »
Fierro on YouTube
Dr. Nancy Fierro, a Los Angeles area pianist long associated with the Polish Music Center and a devoted champion of women composers, recently uploaded some… Read more »
Weinberg Takes Gramophone Recording of the Year
The 2020 Gramophone Classical Music Awards—presented in collaboration with Apple Music, E. Gutzwiller & Cie, Banquiers and Help Musicians UK—held an outdoor and virtual ceremony… Read more »
Premiere of Herdzin’s “Te Deum” in Bydgoszcz
The premiere of Krzysztof Herdzin’s Te Deum in memory of St. John Paul II will take place on 16 October 2020 at 7:00 p.m. at… Read more »
49th Polish Composers’ Union Musicological Conference
The 49th Polish Composers’ Union Musicological Conference will be held from 25-27 October 2020 at the Academy of Music in Kraków. This year’s theme of… Read more »
Multigenerational musical meetings are back!
The Kraków branch of the Association of Polish Chamber Musicians (SPMK) is presenting a unique concert series. The “Intergenerational Academy of Music: Kraków / Dobczyce”… Read more »
Premieres of Contemporary Chamber Miniatures
Presentations of new works in the series “Contemporary Chamber Miniature in the Times of Pandemic. Premieres” continued in September and ended on October 1, International… Read more »
Gifts to PMC: Sept 2020
In spite of the worldwide pandemic and music stages having fallen silent, our friends in the music world continue to be active and supply the… Read more »
Kinga Augustyn in Livestream Performance
This Sunday, October 4, 2020, violinist Kinga Augustyn will serenade virtual audiences with music by Wieniawski, Massenet and Beethoven, with Dmitri Glivinskiy at the piano.… Read more »
2020 “Music on the Heights” Festival
The 12th edition of the ‘Muzyka na Szczytach’ [Music on the Heights] International Chamber Music Festival, organized by the Mieczysław Karłowicz Association in Zakopane, ran… Read more »
2020 ‘Wratislavia Cantans’ Festival
The 55th International Andrzej Markowski Festival ‘Wratislavia Cantans’ was held on 11-13 September 2020 in Wrocław under the theme ‘Lights to the World’. Events were… Read more »
Piano Concerto Discovery
English piano virtuoso, Jonathan Plowright, has devoted much of his life and career to championing works by a number of lesser-known Polish composers, including Friedman,… Read more »
2020 Paderewski Lecture: Krzysztof Meyer (virtual)
The Polish Music Center, USC, Announces the 2020 Paderewski Lecturer: Krzysztof Meyer Please join us to meet Krzysztof Meyer, one of the greatest living… Read more »
In Memoriam: Jan Krenz
Maestro Jan Krenz, an outstanding conductor, composer, and honorary member of the Polish Composers’ Union, died on 15 September 2020 at the age of 94.… Read more »
“Fantasia on a rafting song” premiere in Toruń
On 5 September 2020, the Pomeranian Music Society in Toruń held an online concert during which the Fantasia on a rafting song, written by several Polish composers,… Read more »
2020 Warsaw Autumn Festival
Music is a language, but language carries its own music. In our festival’s programme, these two elements will intertwine in various ways, touching upon issues such… Read more »
Rathaus by Stoupel
Karol Rathaus, composer Works by Karol Rathaus (1895-1954) continue to be gradually rediscovered by a growing circle of performers and audiences worldwide. Born in Tarnopol,… Read more »
Virtual Performance Darek Oles with Otmaro Ruiz
On Saturday, Sept 5, at 6 pm (PT), the limited music series Show me That! will spotlight a performance and conversation with Darek Oles along with the… Read more »