2021 Kraków International Festival of Composers
The Kraków International Festival of Composers has been part the cultural life of the city since 1989 (formerly known as the Days of Music by… Read more »
Premieres
9th Festival of Premieres “Polish Modern Music” Program
“Usually hidden behind their sounds, giving the floor to the performers of their works, during the Festival of Premieres composers are in the center… Read more »
Preview of Opałka’s Party Crasher
A teaser for the new electroacoustic work by Tomasz Jakub Opałka, entitled Party Crasher, is now up online. It features performances on the cello by… Read more »
Polish Operetta Premiere by Józef Beer
Amazingly enough, Józef Beer (1908-1987), a very successful composer of operas, operettas and other stage works, is still largely unknown in Poland. Born near Lwów… Read more »
Premiere of Herdzin’s “Te Deum” in Bydgoszcz
The premiere of Krzysztof Herdzin’s Te Deum in memory of St. John Paul II will take place on 16 October 2020 at 7:00 p.m. at… Read more »
Cracow Duo: Live From Krakow’s Jewish Quarter
On Sunday September 13, the newly re-branded Holocaust Museum LA (formerly the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust) will present a livestream broadcast of Cracow… Read more »
Sikora & Mykietyn Premieres in Gdańsk
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of Solidarność, or Solidarity, and the signing of the Gdańsk August Agreements. Founded in 1980 as… Read more »
Premieres at Experimental Tuesdays
Some of today’s best contemporary music ensembles performed premieres of new Polish works on the stage at Grochowska 272—home of Sinfonia Varsovia—during the first three… Read more »
16th Festival of Polish Music: Triumph of Live Music
Great works by Krzysztof Penderecki and Józef Kozłowski, Mikołaj Gomółka’s psalms, piano music of Chopin’s time and the first performance of the original version of Karol… Read more »
Premieres of Miniatures from Poznań Academy
In August and September, the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań will present a new concert series entitled “Contemporary Chamber Miniature in the… Read more »
Krauze Premieres
Zygmunt Krauze is preparing two new compositions for the beginning of the season. On September 2, during the 12th CODES Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde… Read more »
Premiere of ‘Friction’ By Zubel
A thought doesn’t cause friction. A sound doesn’t cause friction Time doesn’t cause friction. Speed causes friction. Stopping causes friction… Coexistence causes friction! Three related… Read more »
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… Read more »
Chopin-Górecki Open Festival 2020
The online premiere of the multimedia composition by Aldona Nawrocka and Andrzej Kopeć, entitled Mr. Chopin. Someone Loves You!, will take place on 14 July 2020… Read more »
Paweł Mykietyn’s online premiere of his new work
The first performance of Paweł Mykietyn’s latest work Chorale and Canon will take place on 10 July 2020 at 7:30 p.m. during an online concert from the “Polish… Read more »
Blecharz Premiere at the POLIN Museum
Members of the POLIN Choir symbolically woke up the building of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, which has been… Read more »
Concerts Celebrating John Paul II
A Piano Recital by Łukasz Krupiński In honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Karol Wojtyła, who would later be known as Pope… Read more »
Aleksandra Garbal’s “Last words of Angels and Human Hearts before the End of Time”
The latest work by Aleksandra Garbal, entitled Ostatnie słowa Aniołów i Ludzkich Serc przed Końcem Czasów [The Last Words of Angels and Human Hearts before the… Read more »
“Sound Isolation”: New Composition by Mikołaj Laskowski
Composer Mikołaj Laskowski, specializing in chamber instrumental and electronic music, has created the online premiere of his composition Sound isolation, which is available on www.youtube.com. Mikołaj… Read more »
Premiere of Katarzyna Kwiecień Długosz’s Ad Fontes
The work Ad Fontes, written especially for the Gdańsk carillons by Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz, was premiered online on 24 April as part of the “Weekly Carillon Concerts.” The… Read more »