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 you and your family have not suffered any hardships or ill health during the long months of the pandemic. It has been a truly extraordinary year in almost every respect…Continue Reading 2020 PMC Recap ~ Please support us into 2021!
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 of Chamber Music” series. Polish artists acclaimed in the country and abroad, pianist Beata Bilińska and the Cracow Wind Quintet, will perform in the Gorzów Philharmonic’s Chamber Hall. The program…Continue Reading Cracow Wind Quintet & Maciej Zieliński Premiere
“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 for Contemporary Harpsichord Music. The final concert will be broadcast on 10 December 2020 on the Modern Harpsichord YouTube channel. Musical works inspired by painting, literature, mathematics, architecture, industry, and the…Continue Reading “Music in the image. Image in the sound”: Final Concert
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 the question of what the modern world sounds like. The last concert of this year’s edition will be held online on 11 December 2020, featuring music by Krzysztof Penderecki and…Continue Reading 16th Kwartesencja Festival: Premiere of Aleksander Nowak’s String Quartet No. 3
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 Music in Gdańsk present the concert “Sound Winter Gardens” on 10 December 2020 at 7.00 p.m. This year’s last concert in the series “New Music in the Old Town Hall”…Continue Reading “New Music in the Old Town Hall”: Sound Winter Gardens
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 compose a piece for a string quartet. This theme was not accidental: in the year of the 75th anniversary of the Competition’s organizer—Polish Music Editions, or PWM—it was decided to…Continue Reading Winner of the 2020 Ochlewski Competition for Composers
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 well as the Polish premiere of a 2008 work by Austrian composer Kurt Schwertsik. The soloist for the first Polish performance of Schwertsik’s Now you hear me, now you don’t,…Continue Reading Panufnik, Kilar at Warsaw Philharmonic
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. The Holocaust had permanently tarnished the lives of countless musicians who endured unfathomable pain under the despotic Nazi regime. Many were forced to flee their homes in the hopes of…Continue Reading Virtual Lecture – Forbidden Music: The Forgotten Composers Of The Interwar Period
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 and work of Wiktor Łabuński. Part of the KSU School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s ‘First Friday Series,’ this Zoom event takes place at 12 noon Central Time on Friday,…Continue Reading Dobrzański on Łabuński
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 motto “The beauty of lyricism – from Chopin to Górecki”. This year’s Music Confrontations Festival in Stawisko celebrates its 20th anniversary. Each edition takes up a different topic / problem,…Continue Reading 20th Musical Confrontations Festival “The beauty of lyricism – from Chopin to Górecki”