2021 G.G. Gorczycki Int’l Festival

Sixteen concerts featuring music by distinguished Polish and foreign composers will be held from 18 September to 17 October 2021 throughout Silesia. This year’s edition of the G. G. Gorczycki International Festival, subtitled “Transformations,” aims to show the greatest changes in the history of music that took place in two very different epochs: the Baroque…Continue Reading 2021 G.G. Gorczycki Int’l Festival

2021 “Music on the Heights” Int’l Festival

On 11-18 September 2021, the Mieczysław Karłowicz Association in Zakopane presents the 13th “Muzyka na szczytach” [Music on the Heights] International Festival. This year’s edition features such renowned musicians as Marcin Masecki, Olga Pasiecznik, Agata Zubel, Szymon Komasa, Marcin Zdunik, the NFM Orchestra and Choir conducted by Marzena Diakun and Camerata Silesia. The International Festival…Continue Reading 2021 “Music on the Heights” Int’l Festival

SONORA Artists News: Krauze, Sikora & Koziak

SONORA Music continues to actively promote artists on its roster, despite the pandemic-induced slowdown in live performances during the past year. They have instead used that time to organize a number of concert premieres as well as recordings and album releases. Celebrations of Krauze, plus Zubel Premiere Conductor Wilson Hermanto led the National Polish Radio…Continue Reading SONORA Artists News: Krauze, Sikora & Koziak

Gardolińska Hollywood Bowl Debut

Marta Gardolinska

On September 9, Polish conductor Marta Gardolińska will lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic in her Hollywood Bowl debut. The program will open with Grażyna Bacewicz‘s Overture (1943), which packs the power of a larger symphonic work into a compact six minutes structure. It continues with Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto performed by soloist Hélène Grimaud, who…Continue Reading Gardolińska Hollywood Bowl Debut

‘Stacja Klasyka’ – Live Concerts in Pruszków

On Saturdays in July and August, audiences will have the opportunity to listen to live classical music in the relaxation zone of the Nowa Stacja Shopping Center in Pruszków, Poland, outside of Warsaw. Entitled Stacja Klasyka, the concert series is organized by Nowa Stacja and the Rzeka E N Foundation. On 10 July, the Veloce…Continue Reading ‘Stacja Klasyka’ – Live Concerts in Pruszków

Candlelight: Chopin’s Best Works

Following successful performances in June and early July, Fever will present an intimate concert featuring L.A.-based Polish pianist Klaudia Kudelko in late August and September. As a part of her post-pandemic “Dream USA” tour, on August 26-27 Kudelko will present “Chopin’s Best Works” with two showings at 6:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. The concerts will…Continue Reading Candlelight: Chopin’s Best Works

Anniversaries of Great Composers: Eugeniusz Knapik and Jan Wincenty Hawel

The Silesian Philharmonic’s concert on July 9, 2021 is dedicated to two professors, extremely important figures for the Silesian Philharmonic and for the Silesian and Polish composers’ schools – Eugeniusz Knapik and Jan Wincenty Hawel, who celebrates their birthday in July. The Silesian Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Maciej Tomasiewicz and soprano Sylwia Olszyńska…Continue Reading Anniversaries of Great Composers: Eugeniusz Knapik and Jan Wincenty Hawel

Chopin Foundation: Chopin All July Long

The Chopin Foundation of the United States has had its headquarters in Miami since 1977. Founded by Blanka A. Rosenstiel as a non-profit organization with national and international reach, the Chopin Foundation’s mission is to help young, talented American pianists develop their careers as international concert artists, and to make classical music, and above all…Continue Reading Chopin Foundation: Chopin All July Long

Premieres at the “Music in dialogue” Inaugural Concert

The Elżbieta Chojnacka Centre for Contemporary Harpsichord Music in Tarnowskie Góry will launch a new concert series with a concert “Music in dialogue” on July 11, 2021 at the Palace in Rybna. The concerts will feature works that take up the musical dialogue on several levels: instrumental (in terms of timbre, technical and expressive possibilities),…Continue Reading Premieres at the “Music in dialogue” Inaugural Concert

Premieres by Lutosławski Quartet at NFM

The Lutosławski Quartet performed at the National Forum of Music in Wrocław on 24 June 2021. Their program included works that have entered the canon of contemporary classical music, as well as premieres of two pieces by Polish artists. The concert featured the premieres of works by the musicians of the Lutosławski Quartet: String Quartet…Continue Reading Premieres by Lutosławski Quartet at NFM