Category: April 2025

Premiere of One-Act Opera Celebrating Sustainability by Baczewski

On April 11 in Italy, the one-act opera Jezioro Popiołów [Lake of Ashes] by Beniamin Baczewski (b. 1991) will had its world premiere. The opera was created as part of the “Project Butterfly“ International Composition Competition, a collaboration between three European institutions: the Teatro Comunale di Modena (Italy), Opera Box in Helsinki (Finland), and the Baltic Opera…Continue Reading Premiere of One-Act Opera Celebrating Sustainability by Baczewski

Wołek Awarded 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship & Other Honors

Krzysztof Wolek and Michael Matsuno 2011 New Generations concert, USC Newman Hall, Los Angeles. Photo: Brian King

Krzysztof Wołek—Polish composer, pedagogue, improviser, and installation artist—has been named a recipient of the 100th edition of the Guggenheim Fellowship. Currently a professor of composition and director of electronic music studies at the University of Louisville, Wołek is one of 198 distinguished individuals selected in various categories of science and contemporary art for this prestigious…Continue Reading Wołek Awarded 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship & Other Honors

New Opera in Workshop – “A Single Man” in LA

A workshop performance of A Single Man, a contemporary opera by Polish composer Wojciech Stępień to a libretto by Amanda Hollander based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood, will take place on Sunday, April 27 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. Admission is free, but attendees are asked to RSVP in advance. Wojciech…Continue Reading New Opera in Workshop – “A Single Man” in LA

‘Warsaw Memories: Klezmer Glitch Music’ by Marcin Krzyżanowski

Warsaw Memories: Klezmer Glitch Music commemorates the 82nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising with a powerful evening of music and multimedia performance. The concert will feature the San Diego debut of renowned Polish avant-garde composer and cellist Marcin Krzyżanowski, a leading figure in the Low Definition Art and Noise Music movement. Sharing the stage…Continue Reading ‘Warsaw Memories: Klezmer Glitch Music’ by Marcin Krzyżanowski

PMC Gifts: March 2025

By Marek Zebrowski More on Wars and UNESCO Thanks to our great friends at the National Archives in Warsaw, we received three two-volume sets of beautifully produced catalogues released in conjunction with anniversary of the Memory of the World UNESCO program in Poland. During the June 2024 ceremonies at the Ministry of Culture and the…Continue Reading PMC Gifts: March 2025

New Release of Weinberg’s ‘The Passenger’

Maestra Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the Orquesta Del Teatro De Madrid collaborated on a new recording of Mieczyław Weinberg’s opera The Passenger. The release of this digital album on Grammophon Records in January 2025 coincided with the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. Singers on the…Continue Reading New Release of Weinberg’s ‘The Passenger’

Zebrowski Premiere at Kallay’s Los Angeles Concert

On April 15, 2025, LA-based pianist Aron Kallay will perform a concert titled Friends and Family. The program of the event is centered around two new commissions written in memory of loved ones. Among them is Capriccio notturno (2025) by PMC director Marek Zebrowski, composed in honor of Kallay’s grandmother, Cecilia Viola Kallay. The piece…Continue Reading Zebrowski Premiere at Kallay’s Los Angeles Concert

Opałka’s ‘The Glitch’ Project with Cracow Duo

There is a new extraordinary audiovisual project blending contemporary chamber music with the art of animation. This short animated movie demonstrates how modern classical music belongs not only to the audio sphere, but to the visual sphere as well.  Directed by Michał Janicki and brought to life by a team of talented creators, the animation…Continue Reading Opałka’s ‘The Glitch’ Project with Cracow Duo

PMC Recognized Far and Near

For many decades now, the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles has been—and continues to be—one of our most important partners in presenting Polish music to the American audiences. Recently, we were very pleased to receive an official letter from the Honorable Paulina Kapuścińska, congratulating us on the fortieth anniversary of…Continue Reading PMC Recognized Far and Near

AKA Duo Conquers Los Angeles!

by Marek Zebrowski At USC The celebrations of the fortieth anniversary of the USC Polish Music Center, which began last fall with the ‘Celebrating Henryk Wars’ events, continued at the very end of March with more Polish music performed by truly excellent foreign-born performers. Held on Saturday March 29, our annual Spring Concert featured the…Continue Reading AKA Duo Conquers Los Angeles!