The Gaude Mater International Festival of Sacred Music will be held from April 20 to May 8, 2015. This year, the Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary. Within a quarter of a century, the Festival has built upon its original formula, aimed at the promotion of sacred music and intercultural dialogue. This year’s edition will summarize…Continue Reading 25 Years of Gaude Mater
KODY [CODES]—the Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music—is a new festival on Lublin’s cultural map. The first edition took place in May 2009. This year’s edition will be held from May 14 – 18, 2015. The Festival is an international event devoted to the idea of combining the archaic and the new in music. The mixture…Continue Reading Codes Festival
The 6th edition of the International Chamber Music Festival “Q’arto Mondi” took place, just like every year, in Poznań during the month of April. Some of the world’s leading artists, intriguing repertoire and a few novelties were once again on the program. This year’s inauguration was held at the Aula NOVA of the I.J. Paderewski…Continue Reading Q’arto Mondo Festival
Held annually since 2004 in Germany and the Netherlands, this year’s International HornWeek Festival will instead be hosted by the Kraków Music Academy. During the week of February 10, concerts of HornWeek will be augmented by 41 French horn players from Kraków Music Academy. Three evenings of recitals (Feb. 11, 12 and 13) are scheduled…Continue Reading HornWeek in Kraków
The idea behind the Łańcuch [Chain] Festivals is to showcase the music of Witold Lutosławski in an appropriate context. The 12th Łańcuch Festival encompasses five concerts, taking place in Warsaw from January 25 until February 7. Each evening, Lutosławski’s works will be juxtaposed against other works, including masterpieces by Bartok and Beethoven, as well as Scandinavian music,…Continue Reading ŁAŃCUCH 2015
For a number of years the Katowice Music Academy has organized the Brand New Music Festival. Between the years 2001-2006 the Festival consisted of a conference and a single concert staged for the local composers and theoreticians. Held triennially, since 2009 the Festival began to invite special guests (including Per Norgard and Louis Andriessen) and…Continue Reading Brand New Music 2014
Since 1988 the Polish Composers’ Union (ZKP) had organized a cycle of concerts presenting contemporary Polish composers. This year’s 24th edition of the series presented concerts on December 1 and 2 featuring works by Paweł Hendrich and Zdzisław Szostak. Leading Polish artists are invited to participate in presenting seminal works by each composer to the…Continue Reading Composers’ Portraits: Hendrich & Szostak
The 65th session of Musica Moderna was held November 26—December 6 in Łódź. Professor Deborah Bradley-Kramer from Columbia University in New York City and Jarosław Płonka from the Kraków Music Academy were special guests along with the Warsaw-based INTEGRO Ensemble. Professor Bradley-Kramer inaugurated the festivities with her Nov. 26 lecture and the Festival began with…Continue Reading Musica Moderna Sessions
“It is definitely an act of courage but also proof of an open mind and a lack of rigidity. It shows a soul devoted to music, not stereotypes” says Kayah, one of the stars of previous Kwartesencja Festivals. To mix styles and genres, not to follow the beaten track, combine amazing artists who would never meet…Continue Reading Kwartesencja Festival
The Festival of 20th Century Music is a new highlight on the schedule of the Lower Silesia Philharmonic in Jelenia Góra. This series of concerts was launched already in June and continues through this month. A concert on Oct. 3 celebrated the centenary of Sir Andrzej Panufnik with a performance of his Tragic Overture, Piano Concerto and Sinfonia Sacra. Maciej…Continue Reading New 20th Cent. Music Festival In Jelenia Góra