An Evening Of Sound And Image
Held on March 28, 2015, this year’s PMC spring concert was a truly special affair. Organized as part of the prestigious Visions & Voices event… Read more »
April 2015
PMC Director About Town
Pacific Symphony / Osher Lifelong Learning Institute In addition to preparing for this summer’s Paderewski Festival Youth Cultural Exchange (June/July), and the fall’s Paderewski Lecture… Read more »
Recent Donations To The PMC Library
Thank you for expanding our collection! From Polish dermatologist Michal Kasperkiewicz, who is currently doing research at USC: Ignacy Jan Paderewski by Marian Marek Drodowski… Read more »
World Premieres of Polish Modern Music
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)… Read more »
Composer Alive: Poland Presents Stulgińska Premiere
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.… Read more »
Accordion Conference & World Premieres
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… Read more »
Premieres at Poznań Spring
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,… Read more »
Gerpe Performs Szymanowski In Downtown L.A.
On April 28, the prestigious Piano Spheres continues its new Satellite Series of emerging pianists with pianist Nic Gerpe, Los Angeles-based concerto soloist and chamber… Read more »
Laurels for Augustyn
Violinist Kinga Augustyn, who is already known to audiences in California after appearing at the 2012 Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles (pictured at right), has just been… Read more »
Polish Music & Performers in London
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Grzegorz Nowak On Sunday , April 19, Polish maestro Grzegorz Nowak will lead the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) in an unmissable… Read more »
Alvin Ailey Performs to Górecki at L.A. Music Center
As a part of the Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center series, the Alvin Ailey® American Dance Theater will perform choreography set to the music of… Read more »
Poland Celebrates International Jazz Day
UNESCO has proclaimed April 30 to be International Jazz Day, so as to “better realize the value of the international community of jazz as an educational… Read more »
Quarta – March 2015
The latest issue of Quarta (March 2015)—the periodical magazine published by Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne (PWM Edition)—has been published on issuu.com. The topic of this quarter’s publication… Read more »
IMiT in Support of Young Musicians
Screen debut of Premiere and Conductor-in-Residence The premiere of two films produced by the Institute of Music and Dance in Warsaw (IMiT)—Premiere and Conductor-in-residence—was held on Wednesday, 25 March at… Read more »
Chopin Fdn Scholarship for Young Pianists
DEADLINE: MAY 15 The purpose of the Chopin Foundation Scholarship Program is to support and encourage young, talented American pianists through up to four years of… Read more »
“Blank Pages of Music”
MAY 31 APPLICATION DEADLINE The launch of the 5th edition of the ”Blank Pages of Music” research grant program—run by the Institute of Music and… Read more »
Bacewicz Composer Competition
APPLY BY AUG. 31 The 5th Grażyna Bacewicz International Composer Competition, held in Łódź, Poland in September 2015, has been announced. Organized by the Grażyna and Kiejstut… Read more »
Kocyan Performs Chopin at LMU
The genius of Wojciech Kocyan… world class artistry…” The Gramophone On April 11, Polish piano virtuoso and Loyola Marymount University Artists-in-Residence Wojciech Kocyan presents a recital of… Read more »
Baczewska Around NYC in April
Polish-born pianist, harpsichordist and educator Magdalena Baczewska has several interesting concerts related to her position as Director of the Music Performance Program at Columbia University during the month… Read more »
Chopin in Tarzana
On April 19, the Classical Encounters Foundation presents a recital by pianist Dmitri Ratser. His program will feature several works by Chopin: Polonaise in C-sharp… Read more »