Category: Performances

Tarnowskie Góry’s  Interdisciplinary series “Music in the image. Image in the sound”

“Music in the image. Image in the sound” is a series of concerts, workshops and lectures promoting contemporary music, organized by the Elżbieta Chojnacka Centre for Contemporary Harpsichord Music. The events will be held from 12 July to 22 November 2020 at the Palace in Rybna. Musical works inspired by painting, literature, mathematics, architecture, industry,…Continue Reading Tarnowskie Góry’s  Interdisciplinary series “Music in the image. Image in the sound”

Baczewska’s “At Home” concerts

Given the current pandemic situation, the New York-based Polish pianist Magdalena Baczewska continues to perform in the virtual realm. Using her home as a musical salon, over the past few months she has been posting a series of topical interviews and performances that provide delightful and illuminating insights into the repertoire she performs.  Although the…Continue Reading Baczewska’s “At Home” concerts

Schaeffer Puzzle Play 2020

The “Schaeffer Puzzle Play 2020,” an online improvised event inspired by Bogusław Schaeffer‘s scores, will be held on Saturday, 4 July 2020 at 7:00 p.m. A unique live performance of actors, dancers, and musicians will be broadcast on the Facebook, Instagram and Vimeo pages of the Aurea Porta Foundation. “Schaeffer Puzzle Play 2020” is a theater and…Continue Reading Schaeffer Puzzle Play 2020

Zorman On Bacewicz

On Sunday, June 28, virtuoso violinist Itamar Zorman gave a live performance of several violin and piano works by Grażyna Bacewicz. The concert was live-streamed on Facebook and interspersed with a conversation between Maestro Zorman and PMC director Marek Zebrowski.  Ably assisted by pianist Liza Stepanova, Zorman was heard in Bacewicz’s Slavonic Dance, Melody, Oberek,…Continue Reading Zorman On Bacewicz

Musical Aces: Golka & Lipinski

Beethoven’s monumental cycle of 32 Piano Sonatas are the subject of pianist Adam Golka’s tribute to the great Viennese master on the 250th anniversary of his birth falling in December of this year. Already by the age of 18, Mr. Golka had this great repertoire challenge well under his fingers and performed them in public….Continue Reading Musical Aces: Golka & Lipinski

Jazz Therapy with Niedbała

A quartet of young Polish musicians—Michał Niedbała (piano), Mikołaj Sikora (bass), Piotr Przewoźniak (drums) and Ola Przewoźniak (vocals)—launched a weekly series of original online concerts on June 1. Their project, jazzbaja, is a jazz reinterpretation of some well-known Polish songs traditionally sung for children at bedtime. Each new segment in the program will be released…Continue Reading Jazz Therapy with Niedbała

Live Stream of Panufnik Violin Concerto

On May 22, 2020, the Berlin Philharmonic will live-stream a performance of Andrzej Panufnik’s Violin Concerto. Written in 1971 for violin and string orchestra, the composer said this of his Violin Concerto: When Yehudi Menuhin asked me to compose a violin concerto for him, I immediately had in mind his unique spiritual and poetic qualities…Continue Reading Live Stream of Panufnik Violin Concerto

MyOrchestra presents “Radzimir Dębski Hommage Krzysztof Penderecki”

The Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music in Lusławice and the MyWay Foundation have just completed recruiting students and graduates of Polish music academies through a prestigious new online competition to create MyOrchestra. This new orchestra will participate in the “Radzimir Dębski Hommage Krzysztof Penderecki” project. This project will include a residency and workshops in…Continue Reading MyOrchestra presents “Radzimir Dębski Hommage Krzysztof Penderecki”

Online Premiere: Tansman’s Piano Concerto No. 1

On 30 March, the Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic in Łódź hosted the online premiere of Piano Concerto No. 1 by Aleksander Tansman, performed by Julia Kociuban and the Łódź Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Paweł Przytocki. The recording will be available on SoundCloud. The recording comes from the album Bacewicz. Tansman. Piano Concertos (DUX 1612), which was nominated for a Fryderyk award. This recording…Continue Reading Online Premiere: Tansman’s Piano Concerto No. 1

Premiere of the new work by Piotr Moss

The world premiere of According to Memling – a concert for flute, organ and orchestra by Piotr Moss -will take place on 28 February at the Polish Baltic Frédéric Chopin Philharmonic in Gdańsk during the concert entitled “Program and Absolute Music”. Inspired by the Last Judgment triptych created by the Dutch painter Hans Memling and…Continue Reading Premiere of the new work by Piotr Moss