The 10th edition of the Warszawa Singera [Singers’ Warsaw] Festival of Jewish Culture is just around the corner. This annual celebration of music, theatre, film, literature and visual arts will be held from August 24 – September 1. The Yiddish culture will be back in cantors’ songs, klezmer sounds, outdoor concerts, Jewish paper-cutting workshops and…Continue Reading Warszawa Singera
By popular demand, two of the Astoria Music Festival’s most popular shows will combine for a night of New Media Futuristic Art and Modern Dance, featuring Academy-Award winning technical wizard J-WALT and Portland’s award-winning Agnieszka Laska Dancers, whose RITE OF SPRING was a highlight last summer. Astorians had a chance to see the glimpse of…Continue Reading The Chopin Project In Astoria, OR
To be held from August 8-14, 2014, the Transatlantyk Festival Poznań is a festival of ideas. Perhaps the most important of them is to give young talents an entrée into an international career. Therefore, for the fourth time, the Festival announces two prestigious composition competitions: the Transatlantyk Film Music Competition and Transatlantyk Instant Composition Contest. The Transatlantyk Film Music Competition is intended…Continue Reading Transatlantyk Calls All Young Composers
Paderewski Festival Youth Piano Competition – Paso Robles, CA The Board of Directors of the Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles invites piano teachers in California’s Central Coast counties of San Luis Obispo, Monterey and Santa Barbara to encourage their talented young pianists to submit applications for the Festival’s 2014 Youth Piano Competition. The competition is…Continue Reading 2014 US Piano Competition Applications: Due October 3
The 10th edition of the Festival of Polish Music will be held from July 4-20, 2014, in Kraków. The essence of the festival is not only to present valuable works by Polish composers, written from the Middle Ages to the present day, but also to contrast them with the world’s music and display them in…Continue Reading Festival Of Polish Music
The Enter Music Festival (June 17-18, 2014) promotes individual research in music and presents a panorama of musical energy oscillating around jazz stylistics and sounding good in the open air. For this Festival, Artistic Director Leszek Możdżer invites artists he has already met on the world’s music scene or those he would like to hear live…Continue Reading Enter Music Festival
From June 15 to August 30, 2014, the 15th edition of the “Kolory Polski” [Polish Colors] Festival will be held, featuring works from across different genres and epochs. Hosted by the Łódź Philharmonic, the Festival presents concerts of jazz, classical, baroque, film, musical, folk, Jewish, electronic, Balkan and góral music, to mention a few, in…Continue Reading ‘Kolory Polski’ Festival
The 37th edition of the annual Karol Szymanowski Music Days Festival will be held from July 9-19 in various venues around the beautiful town of Zakopane, Poland, where from 1922-1926, Szymanowski spent significant time immersed in Highlander music. Much of the music he composed during this time and thereafter was influenced by this local folk…Continue Reading Karol Szymanowski Music Days
The Musical Gardens [Ogrody Muzyczne] Festival is held annually in the courtyard of the Royal Castle in Warsaw. This year’s Festival began on June 27 and will continue until July 19. Its current 14th edition honors Italy and her cultural heritage and recognizes Italy’s presidency of the European Union during the second half of this…Continue Reading Ogrody Muzyczne Festival
The Marcin Józef Żebrowski Music School in Częstochowa organized the third biennial celebrations of Marian Sawa’s music, presenting concerts, workshops, master classes and concerts, including world premieres of Sawa’s music. This year’s festivities took place June 30—July 4 and were co-sponsored by the local Center for Arts Education and Marian Sawa Society. Marian Sawa (1937-2005)…Continue Reading Marian Sawa Celebrations