The 69th session of Musica Moderna, organized by the Grażyna and Kiejstut Academy of Music in Łódź, will be held between December 3 and 8, 2016. The program consists of a series of concerts given by Kwartludium, Wojciech Błażejczyk and several young musicians and Łódź-based students of the Academy of Music, featuring compositions by Grażyna Bacewicz, Tadeusz Wielecki, Sławomir Kaczorowski, Artur Zagajewski, Krzysztof Grzeszczak, Eugène…Continue Reading 69th Musica Moderna
Under the baton of Maestro Jerzy Maksymiuk, Sinfonia Varsovia will present several reconstructed works of Polish music during the Second World War and the interwar period on December 2, at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The concert program will commence with Aleksander Tansman’s Symphony No. 5, a piece dedicated to his friend and composer, Paweł Klecki. Together…Continue Reading Sinfonia Varsovia Performs Tansman and Klecki
Funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the musical spectacle SOUNDWORK by Wojciech Blecharz (above) will be performed on December 3 and 4 at the TR Warsawa. Originally premiered on October 14, the idea of SOUNDWORK is centralized upon sound traveling through the prism of chosen aspects of 20th and 21st century music. Contemporary music is often dismissed as difficult,…Continue Reading Soundwork at TR Warsawa
The 9th edition of the Art of Accordion Music Interpretation Festival will be held between December 2-10, 2016 in Gdańsk. The festival program covers both premieres of new accordion works as well as classical chamber and solo accordion repertoire. This year, the organizers invited such artists as Maciej Kacprzak, 69 Duo, Cappella Gedanensis, Rafał Kłoczko, Paweł Zagańczyk,…Continue Reading Premieres at “Art of Accordion Music” Festival in Gdańsk
On December 6-7 in the Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury in Warsaw, the 26th edition of the “Composers’ Portraits” concert series, organized by the Polish Composers’ Union (ZKP), will take place. The star of the first concert will be Jakub Sarwas – composer, conductor and instrumentalist. Sarwas is an alum of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice…Continue Reading Premieres at 26th “Composers’ Portraits”
Organized in cooperation of this year’s Tansman Festival, the orchestra, ballet, choir and soloists of the Grand Theater in Łódź will give the world premiere of The Golden Fleece [La Toison d’Or] by Aleksander Tansman, conducted by Łukasz Borowicz, on December 2. The opera is acknowledged by Opera magazine and Radio Poland as one of the most anticipated opera productions of the season after its rediscovery….Continue Reading Tasman World Premiere
On November 3 during a concert held in conjunction with the 10th edition of the International Composers’ Forum, Sepia Ensemble performed the world premieres of Agnieszka Zdrojek-Suchodolska’s Refleksje for cello solo (2016) and Katarzyna Taborowska’s Arpeggio for 4G violin and clarinet (2016). The concert was held in the New Hall of the Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. Members of the Sepia Ensemble who performed on this concert…Continue Reading Premieres in November
On December 4, the GENERATIONS XX concert will be held in the Polish Radio’s Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio. This year’s edition of the GENERATIONS series cultivates the ideas of “Founding-fathers” with a program representing artists from different generations – the difference in age reaches almost 50 years! Among this group there are already well-known, established composers as…Continue Reading Premieres and Other Gems at Generations XX
On November 12 and 13, American pianist Drew Petersen, a laureate of the 2015 Leeds International Piano Competition, will present a program of Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel, Liszt, and Brahms as a part of the Chopin for All Concert Series. The Chopin Foundation began presenting the Chopin for All Concert Series in 1996 as a way to make…Continue Reading Chopin FDN Concerts in Florida
On November 12, the Kosciuszko Foundation (KF) will hold their annual fundraising gala at the Stateroom of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC. This year’s Gala Dinner will recognize artistic director and longtime conductor of the National Philharmonic Orchestra, Maestro Piotr Gajewski, as the 2016 KF Pioneer Award Recipient. Born in Poland, Maestro Gajewski began to study…Continue Reading Kosiuszko FDN Honors Maestro Gajewski