Music and the Pandemic
With the winter pandemic surge seemingly behind us and with spring giving way to the high summer months, the hopes for fair weather and smooth… Read more »
2021
Kinga Reigns on YouTube!
The New York-based Polish violinist Kinga Augustyn continues to be very active in a variety of recordings and collaborative video projects. One of these, launched… Read more »
Lofty Praise for Maestro Nowak
Polish Conductor Grzegorz Nowak’s interpretations on a variety of CDs over the past decade have elicited much praise from critics worldwide. Regardless of whether he… Read more »
2020 Paderewski Lecture with Krzysztof Meyer: Lecture Transcript
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 Paderewski Lecture was conducted as an interview via Zoom on 22 August 2020, and broadcast to the worldwide… Read more »
PMC GIFTS April & May 2021
The Stojowski Collection Expanded! In late March, quite unexpectedly, we received an email from Professor Frank Martignetti, chair of the Department of Music and Performing… Read more »
35th Warsaw Music Encounters
The 35th-anniversary edition of the Warsaw Music Encounters will be held on 7-12 May 2021. All concerts combining early and new music will be available… Read more »
Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra online: Zygmunt Stojowski
Maestro Antoni Wit is one of the most valued conductors of his generation, admired on stages worldwide and a devoted promoter of Polish music. The… Read more »
In Memoriam: Kazimierz Kord
The distinguished conductor Kazimierz Kord died on 29 April 2021 at the age of 90. His artistic biography is a great chapter of Polish culture.… Read more »
Extended Submission Deadline for the 2nd International Competition of Polish Music
Due to the ongoing pandemic situation and the attendant restrictions, the organizers have decided to meet the candidates’ expectations and extend the deadline for submissions… Read more »
Open Session of the Polish Society for Music Analysis: Feliks Nowowiejski and Fryderyk Chopin
On 27 April 2021 at 12.00 p.m., the Polish Society for Music Analysis (PTAM) will host an open online meeting presenting the results of current… Read more »
“Polskie Muzyczki” – season 3: educational films about female composers
New episodes of the third series of educational films about female Polish composers, “Polskie Muzyczki” [Polish Women Musicians], will be posted every Saturday from 24… Read more »
Symphony for the planet – Paweł Pudło’s “Elements”
Almost 300 people involved, over 9 years of work, dozens of instruments made of rubbish…this is just the beginning of a long list that enabled the… Read more »
2021 Polish Composers’ Union Awards
On 17 March 2021 the Presidium of the Main Board of the Polish Composers’ Union (ZPK) awarded the Award of the Polish Composers’ Union for… Read more »
Art / Violence / Gender – debate and concert
On 16 April 2021, a debate on “Art / Violence / Gender” and a concert “Art and Violence” comprised an online social and artistic event… Read more »
Under the Awangarda Banner
Book Review by Marek Zebrowski For over two centuries, Polish music has been inextricably linked to history and politics. A multitude of turbulent events (including… Read more »
Marcin Błażewicz Obituary
Professor Marcin Błażewicz, composer, lecturer at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, and member of the Polish Composers’ Union died on 5 April 2021 in… Read more »
2021 Kraków International Festival of Composers
The Kraków International Festival of Composers has been part the cultural life of the city since 1989 (formerly known as the Days of Music by… Read more »
PMC GIFTS: Feb-March 2021
POLMIC’s Easter Surprise Together with the director Mieczysław Kominek, our friends at the Polish Music Information Centre in Warsaw (POLMIC) once again came through for… Read more »
Book Chats—”Awangarda: Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish Music”
Lisa Cooper Vest—assistant professor of musicology in the Thornton School of Music, and presenter at the recent PMC Spring Górecki event—has recently published a book… Read more »
Jan Węcowski Obituary
Composer and musicologist Jan Węcowski died in Warsaw on 11 February 2021, at the age of 89. Since 1964, he was a member of the… Read more »