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Transatlantyk Calls All Young Composers

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

2014 US Piano Competition Applications: Due October 3

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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

Lira Ensemble Celebrates 50 Years

In 2015, the Lira Ensemble will celebrate its 50th Anniversary. Lira began as a small group of talented young women singers, but today the Lira Ensemble includes a symphony orchestra and a dance troupe as well as the Lira Singers, based at Loyola University Chicago as artist-in-residence since 1995. Over nearly 50 years, the Lira Ensemble…Continue Reading Lira Ensemble Celebrates 50 Years

New Edition Of PWM’s Quarta/Kwarta

PWM’s Polish contemporary music magazine Quarta publishes news, interviews, essays and reviews concerning Polish composers and music. Originally published as two separate language editions—Quarta and Kwarta—content is now published in English and Polish on the same electronic pages. Content of this quarterly magazine is freely accessible in PDF format. The latest installments of Quarta are…Continue Reading New Edition Of PWM’s Quarta/Kwarta

Paweł Łukaszewski Wins Orphée d’Or

Polish composer and 2011 Paderewski Lecturer Paweł Łukaszewski was granted the 2014 Hector Berlioz Prize of the prestigious Orphées d’Or at a ceremony on June 30 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. The Orphées d’Or are the annual Grand Prizes given out by the Academie du Disque Lyrique, and the Hector Berlioz Prize category…Continue Reading Paweł Łukaszewski Wins Orphée d’Or

55th Baird Competition For Young Composers

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Winners in the Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers have been announced by the 2014 jury, which consisted of Krzysztof Knittel – chairman, Marek Chołoniewski – secretary, Klaudiusz Baran and Paweł Mykietyn – members. Organized by the Polish Composers’ Union (ZKP), the instrumentation for this year’s submissions was cello and accordion. The 2014 laureates are:…Continue Reading 55th Baird Competition For Young Composers

Enter Music Festival

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

‘Kolory Polski’ 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

Karol Szymanowski Music Days

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