On March 18, the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago organized a gala event celebrating Marta Ptaszyńska, a distinguished Polish composer who divides her time between the Windy City and Warsaw. Held in the elegant period townhouse that serves as the seat of the Consulate, the evening program was held under the…Continue Reading Ptaszyńska Fêted in Chicago
The semi-final and final rounds of the Third American International Paderewski Piano Competition in Los Angeles are taking place at Loyola Marymount Universityv in Los Angeles from March 21-26, 2022. Seventy-two contestants between the ages of 16 and 30 from the US, Canada, China, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam applied…Continue Reading Perspectives on the Paderewski Competition in LA
Event Details Saturday, March 26 | 4:00 p.m. Concert; 5:30 p.m. Reception California Dreamin’: Celebrating Dianne & Tad Taube’s Transformational Gift feat. Cracow Duo & guests Newman Recital Hall at USC (see campus map) 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA Campus Parking: $14 (Parking Structure X) FREE admission Celebratory reception to follow the concert Find Covid…Continue Reading 2022: California Dreamin’ – Celebrating Dianne & Tad Taube’s Transformational Gift
The world premiere of Elżbieta Sikora’s The Sixth Commandment will take place at the Szczecin Philharmonic on March 27. The piece will be performed together with Quando stanno morendo. Diario polacco No.2 by Luigi Nono. This will be the first presentation in Poland of the Sikora/Nono project, which, under the musical direction of Léo Warynski, involves the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles, SWR Experimentalstudio from Freiburg and soloists: Erik Drescher (flutes), Bartosz Koziak (cello)…Continue Reading Sikora Premiere at the Szczecin Philharmonic
Another recording by Linus Roth with music by Mieczysław Weinberg (Piano Trio Op. 24, Sonata for 2 violins Op. 69 and 2 Songs without words) has been released by EPR Classic. Linus Roth is accompanied by José Gallardo, Danjulo Ishizaka and Janusz Wawrowski. The release was financed by the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the…Continue Reading New CD by Linus Roth: Weinberg and Bach
The premiere performance of the opera Ars Moriendi. Requiem Giocoso by Tomasz J. Opałka will take place on March 17 at the Polish Radio Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio in Warsaw. The work was commissioned by the Polish Royal Opera. According to musicologist Marta Dziewanowska-Pachowska, writing for the websites of POLMIC and the Polish Royal Opera:…Continue Reading Opałka Opera Premiere
A Review by Marek Zebrowski Jakub Józef Orliński, the internationally-acclaimed countertenor, presented a solo recital at the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica on March 10. The capacity crowd warmly welcomed the soloist and his pianist, Michał Biel, as they quickly took charge of the stage in their only Los Angeles appearance. Their…Continue Reading The Charm and Elegance of Orliński and Biel
Listen to Peter Jablonski Plays Grażyna Bacewicz Piano Works Track List (Total of 20 Tracks) Ten Concert Etudes – 22:48 Two Etudes on Double Notes – 6:09 Piano Sonata No. 1 (1949) – 18:10 Piano Sonata No. 2 (1953) – 17:29 Peter Jablonski has just released his 3rd solo album under the Ondine label….Continue Reading Peter Jablonski Plays Grażyna Bacewicz
The East-West Chamber Orchestra has just released their latest under the NAXOS label, Mieczysław Weinberg’s 2nd and 4th Chamber Symphonies. This completes the series, as they previously recorded and released Weinberg’s 1st and 3rd Chamber Symphonies in 2019. These symphonies were written near the final decade of Weinberg’s life when orchestral music was at the…Continue Reading East-West Chamber Orchestra Weinberg Recording
Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020) was one of the progenitors of avant-garde music of the 1960s. Creator of his own compositional idiom, “sonorism,” which became a hallmark of the so-called Polish School of Composition, he was an early recipient of the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers Prize for Threnody to the Victims of…Continue Reading Penderecki Remembered, in Film & Podcast