This year’s edition of the “KODY” [Codes] Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music will be held on May 11-14, 2016 in various venues in Lublin, Poland. The Festival is an international event devoted to the idea of combining the archaic and the new in music. The mixture of two distinctive canons of aesthetics forms a unique experience,…Continue Reading Kody 2016
The IV Festival of Contemporary Music “Nowa Muzyka” will be presented by the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Department of The Polish Composers Union (ZKP) and the City Culture Center in Bydgoszcz from May 6-8, 2016. Admission to all concerts will be free. This festival has been held in the Bydgoszcz concert halls for four years and garners more…Continue Reading ‘Nowa Muzyka’ Festival
Themed “Beethoven and New Directions,” the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival (March 12-25) celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. This momentous event, organized since 1997, included performances by several orchestras, ensembles, and soloists from Poland and abroad. The festival began on March 12, inaugurated by a concert featuring several soloists, like pianist Yeol Eum Son and tenor Michael Schade, along…Continue Reading 20th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival
The 9th Gdańsk Music Festival will be held between April 8 and 15, 2016. The theme of the 2016 edition is “Polish Concert,” reflecting the focus not only on Polish composers of all eras, but also Polish performers, both established and up-and-coming, and ensembles. This year, the festival’s artist-in-residence will be legendary Maxim Vengerov, who will give violin…Continue Reading Gdańsk Music Festival
The 30th anniversary edition of Musica Polonica Nova will be held between April 8 and 16, 2016 at the National Forum of Music in Wrocław. Its main theme was taken from The Romantic by Adam Mickiewicz: “Faith and love are more discerning than lenses or learning.” The festival consists of 11 concerts, meetings with composers, journalists and music critics….Continue Reading Musica Polonica Nova
The UK premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki’s Seven Gates of Jerusalem inspired a four-day festival of Polish culture held at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. The Seven Gates: a Journey of Discovery festival (June 23-26) was filled with works by Polish composers from Szymanowski to Zubel and accompanied by film screenings and works inspired by Polish music. The Karol Szymanowski…Continue Reading 2015 in Review – Festivals
2nd International Violin Festival The 2nd International Violin Festival, organized by the Toruń Symphony Orchestra, will begin on February 14 this year and will continue until the end of the month. Various concerts, recitals, exhibitions, lectures, film screenings, competitions, and workshops of prominent violinists will be held throughout the festival in Toruń. The opening concert will feature…Continue Reading Festivals – February 2016
On October 7th, the 21st International Contemporary Music Festival of Contrasts took place in the Lyudkevych Concert Hall in Lviv, Ukraine, with support from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland and the Institute of Music and Dance. ‘The Modern Galicia… The Five Works on the Way’ was brought to life…Continue Reading XXI Int’l Contemporary Music Festival of Contrasts
The annual Szymanowski Festival held in his favorite Tatra Mountains retreat town of Zakopane took place July 25—August 2 this year. As usual, it presented a number of concerts and artists from all over the world as well as other accompanying events that spotlighted Szymanowski as well as Zakopane’s history. The Festival attracted a lot of positive…Continue Reading The 38th Szymanowski Festival in Zakopane
Organized by the Paderewski Polish-Ukrainian Foundation, the “Discovering Paderewski” International Festival in Lviv has already become one of the most important cultural events in Ukraine. Held at the Lviv Opera House, this year’s fourth edition of the festival aims at promoting Polish culture and getting our eastern neighbors acquainted with the treasures of national musical repertoire at the…Continue Reading Discovering Paderewski Festival in Lviv