Held during the first half of December, the 15th Festival of Song [XV Festiwal Pieśni] concluded on Saturday, Dec. 15 with a concert at the historic 18th century Royal Opera House located on the grounds of the Łazienki Palace in Warsaw. Under the direction of Director Krzysztof Kur and Artistic Director Ryszard Cieśla, for its final concert the Festival…Continue Reading 2018 ‘Festival of Song’ in Warsaw
Acclaimed new music chamber group Ensemble for These Times will perform at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust on Saturday, November 17 at 4:00 p.m. Entitled “Jewish Music & Poetry Project – Emigres & Exiles,” their program will include classical works by extraordinarily gifted Polish, Hungarian, Austrian and Czech composers who fled Europe in the 1930s-1940s,…Continue Reading Ensemble for These Times concert at LAMOTH
On November 14, 2018, Voices of the Mountains will resound in Carnegie Hall for one night only. Embark on a moving journey into the heart of the Polish Tatra Mountains with the best guides you can imagine: renowned composer and world-class conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk, contemporary Polish classical pianist Janusz Olejniczak and multi-instrumentalist Sebastian Karpiel-Bułecka. Joining…Continue Reading Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera Presents Voices of the Mountains
The 2018-2019 concert season for the Chopin Foundation of the United States includes a Chopin Salon Concerts Series and a Chopin for All Concert Series with free admission. The next two installments feature award-winning, internationally renowned Polish-American pianist Adam Golka and Hilton Head International Piano Competition winner and Gilmore Young Pianist Eilliot Wuu. Saturday, 3 November 2018…Continue Reading Chopin Foundation of the US – November Events in Miami
On Saturday, October 27, the LMU College of Communication and Fine Arts – Department of Music presents Polish pianist Wojciech Kocyan in a faculty recital featuring works by Frédéric Chopin, Maria Szymanowska, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Karol Szymanowski, and Grażyna Bacewicz. Not only will audiences enjoy this excellent program of Polish composers, but also there will…Continue Reading Kocyan & ‘Warsaw 44’ at LMU
The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles will present a Polish Organ Music Concert on the occasion of the Centenary of Poland Regaining Independence, featuring organist Jan Bokszczanin from Warsaw’s Frederick Chopin Music Academy. The concert will feature Polish organ music through the ages including pieces by: Karol Szymanowski, Mieczysław Surzyński, Feliks…Continue Reading Polish Organ Music in LA
Several Polish composers were featured at the 2018 International Bienniale for Electroacoustic Music at Studio PANorama in São Paulo, Brazil. In particular, Elżbieta Sikora–who celebrates her 75th birthday this year–and Krzysztof Knittel were highlighted, with concerts on October 10 and 11 dedicated entirely to their music. The festival also presented concerts curated by these two pioneers of electronic music, which included works by their…Continue Reading Polish Composers at Electroacoustic Bienniale in São Paulo
Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera will kick off their 2018/2019 season with the return of Ignacy Jan Paderewski‘s opera Manru on 12 October, with new staging by director Marek Weiss. Journalist and sculptor Alfred Nossig wrote the libretto of the opera based on Kraszewski’s novel The Cottage Outside the Village [Chata za wsią]. Manru premiered…Continue Reading Premiere of Paderewski’s “Manru” directed by Marek Weiss
The premiere of Zygmunt Krauze’s The Declaration for 14 instruments, two voices and electronics took place at the Sacrum Profanum Festival in Krakow on September 12. 70 years after the establishment of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 100 years since Poland regained its independence, Krauze comments the condition of contemporary societies in his latest work….Continue Reading New Works by Zygmunt Krauze: Declaration and Francesco
Violinist Linus Roth and pianist Florian Uhlig toured Europe from October 15 – 28 performing Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata, Op. 47, Brahms’s D minor Sonata, Op. 108, and Mieczysław Weinberg’s Sonata No.3, Op. 37. An interview with Linus Roth (who was the first artists to record all violin and piano sonatas of Weinberg), talking about and performing…Continue Reading Weinberg By Roth and Uhlig