On 29 July, Marcel Chyrzyński’s latest installment in the Ukiyo-e cycle of compositions will premiere at the 41st edition of the Dni Muzyki Karola Szymanowskiego [Days of Music by Karol Szymanowski] Festival in Zakopane. The concert takes place at the Holy Cross Church in Zakopane, and the program will include additional works by Karol Szymanowski,…Continue Reading Chyrzyński Premiere
Every weekend from June 30 to July 29, the 6th Sphere of Silence festival will take place in Royal Łazienki Park. Music from various parts of the world will be performed at over 100 outdoor concerts. Each weekend is dedicated to different music and culture. The first weekend is Polish rhythms. Chamber Orchestra N-Harmonia, and…Continue Reading 6th Sphere of Silence Royal Łazienki Music Festival
Paris-based Polish composer Elżbieta Sikora is currently hard at work on a new violin concerto as well as edition of the piano-vocal score for her Lamento—a long and dramatic soliloquy from her opera, Madame Curie. And, speaking of that opera, we to invite all of our readers to this fall’s Wratislavia Cantans Festival, where Madame…Continue Reading Sikora’s Upcoming Performances
On July 29, pianist Daniel Wnukowski will perform an all-Polish program of Mazurkas in Los Angeles. The program includes works by inter-war composers Karol Szymanowski, Zygmunt Stojowski, Grzegorz Fitelberg, Alexandre Tansman, and Karol Rathaus, as well as Fryderyk Chopin. This concert is a part of the Sundays Live series, held at the Los Angeles County…Continue Reading July 29: Pianist Daniel Wnukowski Live at LACMA
The Kupinski Guitar Duo—Ewa Jablczynska and Dariusz Kupinski— will perform a program of music for two guitars during the Sundays Live series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on July 22. Their program will include Rossini’s La Gazza Ladra overture, Chopin’s Two Mazurkas and a Waltz, Rachmaninov’s Prelude Opus 23 No. 5,” and…Continue Reading July 22: Kupinski Guitar Duo Live at LACMA
“Polish music, [Plowright] has it in his heart, in his soul…” Ruch Muzyczny British pianist Jonathan Plowright—a champion of Polish Romantic repertoire for the piano—has been invited to participate in a number of events to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Polish Independence this year in Poland: 5 August 2018 | 8:00 p.m.: Duszniki International Chopin…Continue Reading Jonathan Plowright Celebrates Poland’s Independence Centenary
On June 17, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR), a beneficiary of EU funds, will participate in the 5th Open Days of European Funds at their home base in Katowice. Open Days is an initiative implemented by the Polish Ministry of Investment and Development to showcase the various projects that utilize EU funds. The…Continue Reading Open Days at NOSPR & Wojciechowski Premiere
A piano recital by Yukio Yokoyama celebrating the 77th anniversary of the death of Ignacy Jan Paderewski will be held on June 23 at the I. J. Paderewski Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz. Yukio Yokoyama was born in Tokyo in 1971. At the age of 12, he started learning piano and composition under Jun Date and…Continue Reading Yukio Yokoyama Celebrates Paderewski
The Ignacy Jan Paderewski Pomeranian Philharmonic celebrated the centennial anniversary of Poland’s independence with a concert on June 15 in Bydgoszcz. The program featured Wojciech Kilar‘s vocal-instrumental works, starting with Angelus (1984), a musical version of the “Angelic Greeting.” The piece was written for the opening ceremony of the renovated altar in the Jasna Góra…Continue Reading 100 Years of Independence in Bydgoszcz
The 18th Franciszek Wybrańczyk “Sinfonia Varsovia to Its City” Festival is taking place from 16–23 June 2018 in Warsaw. This year, the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra will present four extraordinary concerts of symphonic music, intentionally arranged to showcase different dimensions of classical music. The Festival begins and concludes in the newly-built Concert Pavilion in the Praga-Południe…Continue Reading 2018 “Sinfonia Varsovia to Its City” Festival