Ptaszyńska World Premiere
The latest opus by the distinguished Polish composer, Marta Ptaszyńska, will be world-premiered on Sunday, October 17. The concert will be held at the Witold Lutosławski… Read more »
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The Quittner Collection Donation
A sizeable collection of scores by Polish contemporary composers was recently donated to us by Katherine Quittner, a film music composer, orchestrator, music editor and… Read more »
In Memoriam: Kazimierz Kord
The distinguished conductor Kazimierz Kord died on 29 April 2021 at the age of 90. His artistic biography is a great chapter of Polish culture.… Read more »
Open Session of the Polish Society for Music Analysis: Feliks Nowowiejski and Fryderyk Chopin
On 27 April 2021 at 12.00 p.m., the Polish Society for Music Analysis (PTAM) will host an open online meeting presenting the results of current… Read more »
Book Chats—”Awangarda: Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish Music”
Lisa Cooper Vest—assistant professor of musicology in the Thornton School of Music, and presenter at the recent PMC Spring Górecki event—has recently published a book… Read more »
Online Lecture on Polish Jewish Music by Prof. Halina Goldberg
The ongoing “Distinguished Lectures” series is being offered by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. During 2021, the lectures will… Read more »
Preview of Opałka’s Party Crasher
A teaser for the new electroacoustic work by Tomasz Jakub Opałka, entitled Party Crasher, is now up online. It features performances on the cello by… Read more »
Musicological Conferences in Poland Go Online
“Hear the Future” from Szczecin What will the future sound like? On 16 February 2021, the Mieczysław Karłowicz Philharmonic in Szczecin held a conference to… Read more »
Online Piano Academy
The Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City will conduct an Online Piano Academy February 26-28, 2021. Open to all aspiring artists under the age of… Read more »
Jarociński Archive at IS-PAN
The Special Collections Department of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IS-PAN) recently acquired the archive of Stefan Jarociński, an outstanding… Read more »
New Release: Polish Heroines of Music
Polish Heroines of Music Elżbieta Sikora (b. 1944): Sonosphère V. Wanda Landowska; Hanna Kulenty (b. 1961): Aisthetikos; Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969): Contradizione; Agata Zubel (b. 1978):… Read more »
“New Music in the Old Town Hall”: Sound Winter Gardens
The Baltic Sea Cultural Center in Gdańsk in cooperation with the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music and the Department of Composition of the Academy of… Read more »
Virtual Lecture – Forbidden Music: The Forgotten Composers Of The Interwar Period
On December 2, pianist Daniel Vnukowski presents a virtual lecture recital with musical examples on the topic of exiled composers for the University of Rochester.… Read more »
Dobrzański on Łabuński
Dr. Sławomir Dobrzański—a scholar, biographer of Maria Szymanowska, and professor of piano at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas—will deliver a lecture on the life… Read more »
‘Music from Chopin’s Land’ – an international project of PWM Edition
PWM Edition has launched a campaign and an international educational project, which brings the works by Polish composers closer to audiences worldwide. ‘Music from Chopin’s… Read more »
Paddymania in Poznań!
Very few artists earned the honor of having their family name converted into a noun describing a wildly popular fad, but this little fact is… Read more »
Fierro on YouTube
Dr. Nancy Fierro, a Los Angeles area pianist long associated with the Polish Music Center and a devoted champion of women composers, recently uploaded some… Read more »
49th Polish Composers’ Union Musicological Conference
The 49th Polish Composers’ Union Musicological Conference will be held from 25-27 October 2020 at the Academy of Music in Kraków. This year’s theme of… Read more »
Kaper Podcast
RadioJazzFM has launched the second part of its cycle of educational broadcasts, Mistrzowie polskiego jazzu [Masters of Polish Jazz], with a show celebrating music by… Read more »
Premieres of Miniatures from Poznań Academy
In August and September, the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań will present a new concert series entitled “Contemporary Chamber Miniature in the… Read more »