Recent Gifts to PMC
Books & Scores from PWM Dr. Daniel Cichy, Director and Editor-in-Chief for PWM [Polish Music Publishers] was recently in Los Angeles and stopped by the… Read more »
April 2018
2018 Musica Polonica Nova – Paweł Hendrich, Artistic Dir. & Marcin Stańczyk, Resident Composer
Next to the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Musica Polonica Nova in Wrocław is the oldest festival dedicated to new music in Poland. This year’s 31st edition… Read more »
E4TT Concert feat. Czesław Miłosz & Aleksandra Kaca
The Bay Area’s Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) will present the centerpiece concert of its Tenth Anniversary Season, entitled Once/Memory/Night: Paul Celan, on April 15… Read more »
“Polish Libraries Abroad” Conference in Paris – Call for Proposals
The Société Historique et Littéraire Polonaise, also known as the Polish Library in Paris, will host this year’s Fortieth Annual “Conference of Museums, Archives and… Read more »
2018 Fryderyk Award Winners – Classical Music
On April 16, the names of the 2018 Fryderyk Award winners in the Classical Music genre were announced at a special gala held in Polish… Read more »
Premiere of Zubel’s “Cleopatra Songs” in Germany
Agata Zubel’s Cleopatra Songs will receive its world premiere on April 27 in Witten, Germany, during the Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik Festival. The composer will… Read more »
PWM Composer of the Month: Zygmunt Krauze
PWM Editions’s April “Composer of the Month” campaign will familiarize music lovers with the œuvre of Zygmunt Krauze. He is an extraordinary figure in the… Read more »
Premiere of “Afterglow” by Opałka
On April 22, the premiere of Violin Concerto No. 2 “Afterglow” by Tomasz J. Opałka will be held at NOSPR Hall in Katowice. It will… Read more »
This Month at LAMOTH
As institutions of public history, museums play a vital role in presenting difficult histories. With recent efforts in Poland to dictate how the history of… Read more »
Contrasts Concert
The Witold Lutosławski Society presents the “Contrasts” Concert on April 16, the next event in the “New Music Scene” series of concerts at Warsaw’s Nowy… Read more »
III Festival de Música Polonesa
From 11-13 April 2018, the Institute of Arts at São Paulo State University in Campinas, Brazil (UNICAMP) is hosting the 3rd annual Festival de Música Polonesa… Read more »
Piotr Beczała at the MET
The recent starring role appearance of Polish tenor Piotr Beczała in Verdi’s Luisa Miller at the Metropolitan Opera in New York elicited much praise from… Read more »
Knittel Honored with Gdańsk Theatre Award
Krzysztof Knittel was honored with the 2017 City of Gdańsk Theatre Award for his opera Sąd Ostateczny [The Final Judgment]. Since 2008, this Award has… Read more »
Premieres at 2018 Int’l Festival of Kraków Composers
The International Festival of Kraków Composers (formerly known as the “Days of Music by Kraków Composers”) has been present among the cultural events in Kraków… Read more »
Przybylski Plays Hammond Organ
Already it is Dusk John Cage – In a Landscape; Guillaume Dufay – Ave maris stella; Johann Sebastian Bach – French Suite No. 5 in… Read more »
Chopin Competition on Period Instruments 2018
On the anniversary of Poland’s regaining of independence, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in collaboration with Polish Television and Polish Radio, is organizing an event of… Read more »
100 Songs for 100 Years of Independence
Starting on April 16, the Grand Theater in Łódź will host a series of concerts entitled “100 songs for 100 years of Independence.” During the… Read more »
PWM’s ‘100 for 100’
Polish Music Publishers (PWM) is planning to publish and record one hundred works by over eighty Polish composers, written between 1918 and 2018. This project… Read more »
Holocaust Remembrance Day at Eastman feat. Roman Ryterband
Eastman School of Music faculty members, students, and alumni will join the worldwide observance of Yom HaShoah by performing the Fifth Annual Holocaust Remembrance Concert… Read more »
‘Canzoni e Concerti’ Concert – Polish Baroque Chamber Music in NY
On April 14, the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York will present students from the prestigious Juilliard School of Music in Canzoni e Concerti—a concert of Baroque… Read more »