Held on May 27-31, 2015, the Film Music Festival in Kraków (FMF) was a captivating showcase of the highest quality musical interpretations of the moving image performed by leading musicians and orchestras in Europe and the world. Organized by the Kraków Festival Office and RMF Classic, the festival provides a unique concert experience by setting…Continue Reading Festival of Film Music
The 7th annual Leo Festiwal will be held from May 30 – June 6, 2015 in Wrocław. The festival presents a dialogue between music and other arts: architecture, poetry, dance, film, visual arts, theater. With the support of the Academy of Music in Wrocław, the Festival is organized by the National Forum of Music (NFM),…Continue Reading Leo Festival In Wrocław
The 6th Musica Electronica Nova – International Festival of Electroacoustic Music took place from May 15 to 23, 2015 in Wrocław. The fusion of electronic music and cinema was one of the leading motifs of this year’s edition. The audience heard electronic music in a traditional concert setting, as an element of multimedia installations, on…Continue Reading Musica Electronica Nova Festival
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