Jazztopad ‘Great Improvisation’ series Livestream
The Jazztopad Festival, in partnership with Polish Cultural Institute New York, presents The Great Improvisation series online live streamed from the National Forum of Music… Read more »
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Maestro Gajewski Online
Maestro Piotr Gajewski and the US National Philharmonic are streaming their 2020/2021 concert season from their home in The Music Center at Strathmore in North… Read more »
2020 Kosciuszko Fdn Wieniawski Competition Winners
Among many cultural programs that the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City carries out, competitions promoting Polish music and commemorating Poland’s most important artists are… Read more »
PMC Gifts: January 2021
Polish Music Abroad The Art Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences [IS-PAN] just published the third volume in the series, Muzyka polska za granicą… Read more »
2020 PMC Recap ~ Please support us into 2021!
Dear Friends of the Polish Music Center, Before sharing the annual PMC summary and our latest news, we would first like to express hope that… Read more »
Cracow Wind Quintet & Maciej Zieliński Premiere
The Cracow Wind Quintet will premiere Maciej Zieliński‘s Impressioni Concertante on 11 December 2020 at the Gorzów Philharmonic during an online chamber concert in the “Masters… Read more »
“Music in the image. Image in the sound”: Final Concert
“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 »
16th Kwartesencja Festival: Premiere of Aleksander Nowak’s String Quartet No. 3
Since its creation in 2004, Kwartesencja Festival has represented not only the essence of the most beautiful, intimate chamber music-making, but also the answer to… Read more »
“New Music in the Old Town Hall”: Sound Winter Gardens
The Baltic Sea Cultural Center in Gdańsk in cooperation with the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music and the Department of Composition of the Academy of… Read more »
Winner of the 2020 Ochlewski Competition for Composers
On November 27, 2020, the winner of the 17th Tadeusz Ochlewski Competition was announced by the jury. The theme of this year’s Competition was to… Read more »
19th Silesian Days of Contemporary Music – Premieres
The 19th Silesian Days of Contemporary Music, organized by the Polish Composers’ Union (ZKP), is being held from 19 November to 8 December 2020. The… Read more »
Krzysztof Komendarek-Tymendorf’s debut album “ReViolation”
The title of a debut album of Polish violist Krzysztof Komendarek-Tymendorf, “ReVIOLAtion, is far from coincidental and implies a “viola revolution.” The disc released by Naxos… Read more »
Int’l Days of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Festival 2020
42 concerts and broadcasts, 8 world premieres, and countless emotions – this is what the 8th “International Days of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki” Festival has to… Read more »
Panufnik, Kilar at Warsaw Philharmonic
On Friday, December 4, the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw will perform a program including works by Andrzej Panufnik, Wojciech Kilar, and W.A. Mozart, as… Read more »
Virtual Lecture – Forbidden Music: The Forgotten Composers Of The Interwar Period
On December 2, pianist Daniel Vnukowski presents a virtual lecture recital with musical examples on the topic of exiled composers for the University of Rochester.… Read more »
Dobrzański on Łabuński
Dr. Sławomir Dobrzański—a scholar, biographer of Maria Szymanowska, and professor of piano at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas—will deliver a lecture on the life… Read more »
Virtual Polish Music Experience
The “Polish Music Experience” is a project of the “Porta Musicae” Artistic Association that aims to popularize Polish composers and artists in Poland and abroad.… Read more »
12th Schaeffer’s Era from the New World – Schaeffer in L.A.
Ghost Road Company (Los Angeles) and Warsaw Bauhaus Foundation (Warsaw) present an international real-time collaboration: original works of dance, theatre, and film, created to respond… Read more »
Marta Ptaszyńska Premiere
The world premiere of Marta Ptaszyńska‘s Concerto No. 2 for flute and orchestra will take place on 20 November 2020 at 7:00 p.m (Central European Time), performed… Read more »
2020 Paderewski Festival Wrap-Up
The Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles tradition continued this year in spite of pandemic-induced restrictions. By early August—when it became clear that in-person gatherings in… Read more »