Established by Poland’s Adam Mickiewicz Institute in 2011, the I, CULTURE Orchestra (ICO) is an ensemble of outstanding young musicians from Poland and the Eastern Partnership member states – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Members audition and are chosen anew each season, and this year’s ensemble of 111 artists was announced in April…Continue Reading I, Culture Orchestra 2014
The Adam Mickiewicz Institute has recently published “A Foreigner’s Guide to Polish Jazz.” In this ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ style article, readers are given many ways to digest the complex and glorious history (and present) of jazz in Poland. The article was adapted from Cezary Lerski’s article “Polish Jazz – Freedom at last” by Wojciech Oleksiak, who provided…Continue Reading Foreigner’s Guide To Polish Jazz
From the Boosey & Hawkes website: The lost score of Benjamin Britten’s orchestration of Les Sylphides was recently rediscovered and revived by American Ballet Theater, and is now available on hire from Boosey & Hawkes for other ballet companies. Michel Fokine’s classic one-act ballet, with its orchestrations of music by Chopin, dates back to 1908…Continue Reading Dancing To Chopin (By Way Of Britten)
Two Polish musicians taught and performed at the 16th edition of the International Keyboard Institute & Festival hosted by the New School for Music at Mannes College in New York City: Grzegorz Niemczuk and Magdalena Baczewska. Thursday, July 17: 6:00pm Prestige Series Concert: Magdalena Baczewska Friday, July 18: 3:00pm Master Class – Goldmark Hall –…Continue Reading Poles at IKIF in NY
On August 17, an “Organ Concert of Three Polonaises” featuring organist Agnieszka Rybak will be held in commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Warsaw Rising at Our Lady of the Bright Mount Church in Los Angeles. Program: M.K. Ogiński – Polonez a-moll „Pożegnanie Ojczyzny”; H. Purcell – Trumpet Tune; L. Boellmann – Suita Gotycka…Continue Reading ‘Three Polonaises’ In L.A.
Laureates of the 1st International Zbigniew Seifert Jazz Violin Competition—held as part of the Summer Jazz Festival in “Piwnica pod Baranami” on July 16-19 in Kraków, Poland—are as follows: 1st prize (10.000 EURO): Bartosz Dworak (Poland) (pictured at right) 2nd prize (5.000 EURO): Apel-les Carod Requesens (Spain) 3rd prize (ex-aequo, 2.000 EURO each): Dawid Lubowicz…Continue Reading Seifert Jazz Violin Competition
The tenth edition of the ‘Chopin and His Europe’ Festival will be held in Warsaw from August 15-31, 2014, under the motto “From Chopin to Grieg and Panufnik.” Over the course of the 17 days of the Festival, masterpieces of nineteenth-century repertoire will resonate with those of twentieth-century composers. A highlight of this year’s Festival…Continue Reading Chopin And His Europe
The 4th annual Transatlantyk International Film and Music Festival will be held in Poznań from August 8-14, 2014. The Festival features outstanding films and music from all around the world, hundreds of screenings and numerous concerts, as well as legendary and young artists, representatives from all film and music professions. Transatlantyk is intended to be…Continue Reading Transatlantyk Festival
The fifteenth edition of the “Summer Philharmonic” concerts is scheduled in two installments this year. The first was held in Wigry—the picturesque lakeside resort in the northeast of Poland—from July 25 until August 2. The second, scheduled for August 8-10, will take place in Pieniny, the mountainside resort in southern Poland. The honorary guest of…Continue Reading ‘Letnia Filharmonia’ Festival
The 7th edition of the Letni Festiwal Nowego Miasta [New Town Summer Festival] is taking place around Warsaw from July 26 – August 10. Works by Polish composers such as A. Panufnik, M. Małecki, F. Chopin, S. Madelka, K. Szymanowski, K. Kurpiński, and Wł. Słowiński are featured. Performers include the Festival’s organizers, Warsaw Camerata and…Continue Reading Summer Festival In New Town Warsaw