This year the Polish Royal Opera hosted its 5th Festival featuring a plethora of Polish music from July 2nd to July 24th. The Festival included twelve performances and concerts. One of the festival’s biggest highlight events was the premiere of Zygmunt Krauze’s The Night of Ravens that took place on the first day of the…Continue Reading 5th Royal Opera Polish Music Festival & Krauze Premiere
The Final Veil is a movement opera co-created by composer JL Marlor and dancer/director Cassandra Rosebeetle. Through the mediums of opera and dance, The Final Veil tells the true story of Polish-Jewish dancer Franceska Mann, living through horrific WWII events. This opera demonstrates her strength, resilience, and bravery through her time at the Auschwitz concentration…Continue Reading The Final Veil: World Premiere
On Wednesday, April 27 in Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, the London Sinfonietta celebrated contemporary musical life in Poland. Entitled “Leaning East: The New Polish School,” the program included two new pieces by Polish composers Wojciech Błażejczyk and Paweł Mykietyn, commissioned by the International Centre for Contemporary Music (ICCM). The Sinfonietta was led by conductor…Continue Reading Mykietyn & Błażejczyk World Premieres in London
By Marek Zebrowski Born in 1954, Elliot Goldenthal is primarily known as a very successful film composer with a long list of scores for such highly acclaimed features as Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy (1989), David Fincher’s Alien 3 (1992), Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire (1994), Michael Collins (1996) and The Good Thief (2002),…Continue Reading Goldenthal in Kraków
Event Details Saturday, March 26 | 4:00 p.m. Concert; 5:30 p.m. Reception California Dreamin’: Celebrating Dianne & Tad Taube’s Transformational Gift feat. Cracow Duo & guests Newman Recital Hall at USC (see campus map) 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA Campus Parking: $14 (Parking Structure X) FREE admission Celebratory reception to follow the concert Find Covid…Continue Reading 2022: California Dreamin’ – Celebrating Dianne & Tad Taube’s Transformational Gift
The world premiere of Elżbieta Sikora’s The Sixth Commandment will take place at the Szczecin Philharmonic on March 27. The piece will be performed together with Quando stanno morendo. Diario polacco No.2 by Luigi Nono. This will be the first presentation in Poland of the Sikora/Nono project, which, under the musical direction of Léo Warynski, involves the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles, SWR Experimentalstudio from Freiburg and soloists: Erik Drescher (flutes), Bartosz Koziak (cello)…Continue Reading Sikora Premiere at the Szczecin Philharmonic
The premiere performance of the opera Ars Moriendi. Requiem Giocoso by Tomasz J. Opałka will take place on March 17 at the Polish Radio Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio in Warsaw. The work was commissioned by the Polish Royal Opera. According to musicologist Marta Dziewanowska-Pachowska, writing for the websites of POLMIC and the Polish Royal Opera:…Continue Reading Opałka Opera Premiere
During the second half of March, the celebrated Cracow Duo—comprised of cellist Jan Kalinowski and pianist Marek Szlezer—returns for a tour of California. The Strad magazine described the ensemble thus: “Kalinowski and Szlezer, friends since childhood, have a wonderfully natural rapport and there is an arresting quality to their playing that gives life to the music”….Continue Reading Cracow Duo Back in California
Dariusz Swoszowski’s new work–Dźwięki historii Tarnowa–premiered during a concert at the Music School Complex in Tarnów. The concert, entitled “In the World of Rhythm,” was held on February 21, 2022. Paweł Swoszowski, a percussionist and pedagogue, was the soloist. Swoszowski graduated from Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and has worked with many renowned…Continue Reading Dariusz Swoszowski Premiere
A concert celebrating twenty years of performance by the Cracow Duo was held on 4 December 2021, at the elegant Florianka Hall in Kraków. Cellist Jan Kalinowski and pianist Marek Szlezer have known each other since childhood, and they entertained the audience—as they have successfully done for the past two decades—with a special program of…Continue Reading 20 Years of Cracow Duo