August was a time of many guests and meetings at the Polish Music Center, where there is truly never a dull moment in our summers! An excellent visit and knowledge-sharing session with our colleagues from the Wende Museum took place in mid-August, and included other esteemed PMC partners—Sonia Matheus from the Museum of Tolerance and…Continue Reading PMC Gifts & News: August 2025
Polish composer Marcel Chyrzyński was recently recognized with two Silver Medals at the prestigious Global Music Awards (USA), in the category of Contemporary Classical – Composer. In March 2025, Chyrzyński was awarded for works featured on the album Marcel Chyrzyński – Chamber Works (DUX 2001), recorded by Piotr Lato (clarinet), Wojciech Koprowski (violin), Jan Kalinowski…Continue Reading Chyrzyński Honored & PMC Spring Concert Preview
Janusz Wawrowski, acclaimed Polish violinist and professor at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, is using an extraordinary instrument — the Stradivarius Polonia — to record violin works by Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz. In his latest project, Wawrowski explores Bacewicz’s dynamic violin works, bringing attention to one of Poland’s most important composers of the…Continue Reading Wawrowski records Bacewicz on a Stradivarius
On March 28, Paweł Hendrich‘s latest monographic album entitled “Fractalized” was released by the DUX record label. This album (DUX 2136) contains four works performed over the last eight years by artists specializing in new music performance from Poland, Austria and Switzerland. The tracks—containing pieces entitled Phantomaticon, Just a little beat, Hordiaver and Absusurrus—were recorded…Continue Reading Paweł Hendrich’s New Album “Fractalized”
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
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’
On Sunday, March 30, the winners of Poland’s most prestigious phonographic awards in classical music were revealed at the hall of NOSPR [National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra] in Katowice, renowned for its exceptional acoustics. The awards were presented across twelve categories, celebrating outstanding achievements in classical music recording. The winners of the in classical music…Continue Reading Fryderyk Awards 2025 – Classical Music Winners Announced
Pianist Yulianna Avdeeva recently released an album returning to Chopin and highlighting her journey with the composer’s music. After winning the XVI International Chopin Competition 14 years ago, she is ecstatic to share these late works of Chopin, mostly inspired by nature. This album has already garnered international attention, as it was recently featured in…Continue Reading Chopin: Voyage – Yulianna Avdeeva
Cellist Lars Hoefs, a longtime friend of the USC Polish Music Center and an exceptionally dedicated advocate for Polish music around the world, has recently published an album of cello and piano music, entitled “Villa-Lobos, Grand Concerto for Cello and Piano.” What is quite interesting—and very much in line with Lars’s ongoing research of Chopin’s…Continue Reading Around the World with Mazurkas
Following his August recital in San Francisco, Polish pianist and composer Tomasz Kamieniak came down to Los Angeles and visited the PMC. This Berlin-based musician came bearing several gifts that will expand our score and sound libraries. Kamieniak As Composer In the pride of place among the gifts is the set of solo piano pieces…Continue Reading Kamieniak Visit & PMC Gifts