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 »
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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 »
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 »
Krauze Premieres
Zygmunt Krauze is preparing two new compositions for the beginning of the season. On September 2, during the 12th CODES Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde… Read more »
New Musicology and Music PR website
My name is Maria Opalka. I’m a musicologist, music producer and a public relations specialist. I love music and I’m fascinated by culture, especially… Read more »
Baczewska’s “At Home” concerts
Given the current pandemic situation, the New York-based Polish pianist Magdalena Baczewska continues to perform in the virtual realm. Using her home as a musical… Read more »
Darek Oleszkiewicz’s New Solo Album
Last week, Darek Oleszkiewicz released a new album entitled “The Promise.” The album is a tribute to the music of John Coltrane, in acoustic solo… Read more »
Polaczyk Wins in NYC
The 2019-2020 American Prize in Composition – Instrumental Chamber Music Division, was announced on June 9. The laureate is young Polish composer Jakub Polaczyk for… Read more »
Zygmunt Krauze Award & Performances
Krauze’s Virtual Salon On alternate Fridays, beginning in July and running until September, the YouTube and Facebook channels of PWM Editions will feature pianist and… Read more »
“Manru” Broadcast Postponed
The broadcast of Paderewski’s only opera, Manru, produced by Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, has been postponed until the fall. The new date for its airing… Read more »