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2020

2020 PMC Recap ~ Please support us into 2021!

December 18, 2020
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Dear Friends of the Polish Music Center, Before sharing the annual PMC summary and our latest news, we would first like to express hope that… Read more »

Tagged December 2020, PMC News

Cracow Wind Quintet & Maciej Zieliński Premiere

December 9, 2020

The Cracow Wind Quintet will premiere Maciej Zieliński‘s Impressioni Concertante on 11 December 2020 at the Gorzów Philharmonic during an online chamber concert in the “Masters… Read more »

Tagged #stayathome, December 2020, Performances, Premieres

“Music in the image. Image in the sound”: Final Concert

December 9, 2020

“Music in the image. Image in the sound” is a series of concerts, workshops, and lectures promoting contemporary music, organized by the Elżbieta Chojnacka Centre… Read more »

Tagged #stayathome, December 2020, Performances, Premieres

16th Kwartesencja Festival: Premiere of Aleksander Nowak’s String Quartet No. 3

December 9, 2020

Since its creation in 2004, Kwartesencja Festival has represented not only the essence of the most beautiful, intimate chamber music-making, but also the answer to… Read more »

Tagged #stayathome, December 2020, Performances, Premieres

“New Music in the Old Town Hall”: Sound Winter Gardens

December 9, 2020

The Baltic Sea Cultural Center in Gdańsk in cooperation with the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music and the Department of Composition of the Academy of… Read more »

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Winner of the 2020 Ochlewski Competition for Composers

December 9, 2020

On November 27, 2020, the winner of the 17th Tadeusz Ochlewski Competition was announced by the jury. The theme of this year’s Competition was to… Read more »

Tagged Awards, December 2020

19th Silesian Days of Contemporary Music – Premieres

December 4, 2020
zwiazek kompozytorow polskich ZKP

The 19th Silesian Days of Contemporary Music, organized by the Polish Composers’ Union (ZKP), is being held from 19 November to 8 December 2020. The… Read more »

Tagged November 2020, Performances

Krzysztof Komendarek-Tymendorf’s debut album “ReViolation”

December 4, 2020

The title of a debut album of Polish violist Krzysztof Komendarek-Tymendorf, “ReVIOLAtion, is far from coincidental and implies a “viola revolution.” The disc released by Naxos… Read more »

Tagged Discography, November 2020

Int’l Days of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Festival 2020

December 3, 2020

42 concerts and broadcasts, 8 world premieres, and countless emotions – this is what the 8th “International Days of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki” Festival has to… Read more »

Tagged December 2020, Festivals, November 2020, Performances

Panufnik, Kilar at Warsaw Philharmonic

December 3, 2020

On Friday, December 4, the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw will perform a program including works by Andrzej Panufnik, Wojciech Kilar, and W.A. Mozart, as… Read more »

Tagged #stayathome, December 2020, Performances

Virtual Lecture – Forbidden Music: The Forgotten Composers Of The Interwar Period

December 2, 2020
Daniel Vnukowski

On December 2, pianist Daniel Vnukowski presents a virtual lecture recital with musical examples on the topic of exiled composers for the University of Rochester.… Read more »

Tagged #stayathome, December 2020, Lectures

Dobrzański on Łabuński

December 1, 2020

Dr. Sławomir Dobrzański—a scholar, biographer of Maria Szymanowska, and professor of piano at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas—will deliver a lecture on the life… Read more »

Tagged #stayathome, December 2020, Musicology

‘Music from Chopin’s Land’ – an international project of PWM Edition

December 1, 2020

PWM Edition has launched a campaign and an international educational project, which brings the works by Polish composers closer to audiences worldwide. ‘Music from Chopin’s… Read more »

Tagged December 2020, News

 20th Musical Confrontations Festival “The beauty of lyricism – from Chopin to Górecki”

December 1, 2020

The Museum of Anna and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz in Stawisko presents the 20th Music Confrontations Festival, held from 8 November through 13 December 2020 under the… Read more »

Tagged December 2020, Festivals

6th “New Waves” Contemporary Music Festival

December 1, 2020

The Sinfonietta Pomerania Foundation held the 6th “New Waves” Contemporary Music Festival online on 3-9 December 2020. This year’s sixth “New Waves” festival was designed… Read more »

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In Memory of Professor Penderecki

December 1, 2020

The first in the series of December online concerts of the Krakow Philharmonic, which took place on 6 December 2020 at 6.00 p.m., was organized… Read more »

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Virtual Polish Music Experience

November 25, 2020

The “Polish Music Experience” is a project of the “Porta Musicae” Artistic Association that aims to popularize Polish composers and artists in Poland and abroad.… Read more »

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12th Schaeffer’s Era from the New World – Schaeffer in L.A.

November 20, 2020

Ghost Road Company (Los Angeles) and Warsaw Bauhaus Foundation (Warsaw) present an international real-time collaboration: original works of dance, theatre, and film, created to respond… Read more »

Tagged #stayathome, November 2020, Performances, PMC News

Marta Ptaszyńska Premiere

November 20, 2020

The world premiere of Marta Ptaszyńska‘s Concerto No. 2 for flute and orchestra will take place on 20 November 2020 at 7:00 p.m (Central European Time), performed… Read more »

Tagged #stayathome, November 2020, Performances

2020 Paderewski Festival Wrap-Up

November 20, 2020

The Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles tradition continued this year in spite of pandemic-induced restrictions. By early August—when it became clear that in-person gatherings in… Read more »

Tagged November 2020, Paderewski Festival, Performances, PMC News

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