Held in Kielce April 10-24, the Świętokrzyskie Music Days Festival was dedicated to new and rediscovered music. Two world premieres of works commissioned by the Kielce Philharmonic were also scheduled. They included Figury na piasku [Figures Drawn on Sand] for flute quartet by Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil and Ideograms for Orchestra by Rafał Zapała, who is also…Continue Reading Premieres In Kielce
During the third weekend of April, Katowice will become ground zero for new music. From April 17-19, 2015, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR) will host the Festival of Premieres of Polish Modern Music in their new venue. This is the sixth edition of the festival and almost 30 pieces by Polish composers of…Continue Reading World Premieres of Polish Modern Music
Access Contemporary Music (ACM) has teamed up with the Polish Consulate and 98.7 WFMT to celebrate the vibrant legacy of Polish classical music in Chicago. Held on April 10, the concert presents music by some of the most esteemed living composers in Poland today, including Krzysztof Penderecki, and the culmination of an exciting collaboration with…Continue Reading Composer Alive: Poland Presents Stulgińska Premiere
From April 9-10, the conference “Between tradition and avant-garde – accordion in the musical culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries” will be held at the F. Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Organized by the Międzyuczelniana Katedra Accordionistyki—an inter-departmental organization encompassing music academies in Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Krakowi Łódź, Poznań, Warsaw and Wrocław—this Jubilee Conference…Continue Reading Accordion Conference & World Premieres
The 44th edition of the International Festival of Contemporary Music “Poznań Musical Spring” was held on March 23-30, 2015. Showing a great respect for tradition, the festival program reminded audiences of the works that constitute the canon of Polish twentieth century music, but also presented new compositions by young composers and highlighted interesting phenomena in…Continue Reading Premieres at Poznań Spring
The Grand Theatre in Poznań had commissioned a new opera by Aleksander Nowak, Space Opera, czyli mężczyzna, kobieta i…. [Space Opera, or a Man, a Woman, and…], which will be premiered in Poznań on March 14, 2015. The libretto of the opera is by Georgi Gospodinow and the premiere will be conducted by Marek Moś….Continue Reading Nowak Premiere & Opera Conference In Poznań
On February 13, the World Premiere of ocean is not enough for 13 performers by Wojtek Blecharz was given by the Klangforum Wien, conducted by Clemont Power. This new work by Blecharz was commissioned as a part of Klangforum’s “impuls” program, and the premiere took place during the impuls Festival 2015. Impuls promotes and supports…Continue Reading Blecharz Premiere In Graz
In 2015, the Artur Rubenstein Philharmonic Orchestra in Łódź is celebrating its centenary. In celebration, on February 17 the ARPO will hold an Anniversary Gala Concert featuring the World Premiere of Musica festiva for two organs and orchestra by Krzysztof Meyer. Musica festiva was commissioned by the ARPO especially for the occasion. It will be…Continue Reading Meyer Premiere In Łódź
…an engagingly unsettled chamber work that alternated abruptly between passages of eerie calm and others of frantic unsteadiness.” —Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle (1/26/2015) On January 25, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players [SFCMP] performed the World Premiere of Polish composer and vocalist Agata Zubel’s new chamber piece, entitled Where To, at Cal Performances…Continue Reading Zubel Premiere In California
The World Premiere of Overture for symphony orchestra by Zbigniew Bagiński will take place during a concert at the Philharmonic in Kielce on February 6, 2015. The Kielce Philharmonic commissioned this new piece by Bagiński under the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage’s “Composing Commissions” program, as implemented by IMiT. Also on the program is…Continue Reading Bagiński Premiere In Kielce