“$100k for the 100th” Committee gifts piano, receives Amicus Poloniae Awards
On March 22, the Residence of the Ambassador of Poland in Washington, D.C.— His Excellency Piotr Wilczek—hosted a gala to celebrate the gifting of a… Read more »
Awards
Poland at the Prestigious International Opera Awards
Two Polish or Polish-related directors, a composer and an opera manager were nominated for the 2019 International Opera Awards. The winners were announced on April… Read more »
Winners of the 2nd Krzysztof Penderecki Int’l Competition for Young Composers
On March 11, 2019, the Jury of the Second Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition for Young Composers in Kraków selected the winners of the competition. 37… Read more »
2019 ZKP Award Winners
The Presidium of the Main Board of the Polish Composers’ Union (ZKP) has chosen the 2019 ZKP Honorary Award winner for contributions to the promotion… Read more »
ICMA Awards for NFM
The prestigious International Classical Music Awards, or ICMA, have been awarded for 2019 and Polish artists were honored in four of the categories. See below… Read more »
Fryderyk Music Awards
This year, the Fryderyk Music Awards (the Polish equivalent of the Grammys in the US) have changed the formula by opening up the the Awards… Read more »
2018 PAHA Awards
At its 76th Annual Meeting at the Hilton Chicago, held from January 3-6, 2019, the Polish American Historical Association (PAHA) announced the recipients of its… Read more »
Agata Zubel receives 2018 European Composer Award
The European Composer Award is presented annually during the Young Euro Classic Festival in Berlin. Polish composer Agata Zubel received the accolade for her latest… Read more »
Winners of the 2018 Marcella Sembrich International Voice Competition
The finalists of the Kosciuszko Foundation’s 2018 Marcella Sembrich International Voice Competition took the stage of Ida K. Lang Recital Hall at Hunter College on 4… Read more »
European Composers Award for Agata Zubel, World Premiere of “Bildbeschreibung”
Agata Zubel has been honored with the European Composers Award 2018 for the premiere of her newest composition “Fireworks” in Berlin during the Young Euro… Read more »
ZaiKs and Transatlantyk 2018 Best Young Polish Composer Winner
Every year, the Transatlantyk Festival awards filmmakers and musicians for creating new and challenging works in film, music and art. This year’s Transatlantyk Best Polish Young… Read more »
Winners of the 59th Tadeusz Baird Young Composers Competition
The final concert of ZKP’s 59th Tadeusz Baird Young Composers’ Competition was held on June 14 at the Warsaw headquarters of Polish Music Editions (PWM). The… Read more »
Olga Tokarczuk wins 2018 Man Booker Prize
Award-winning and bestselling Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, and her translator, Jennifer Croft, won the Man Booker International Prize for the novel Flights, which was published… Read more »
Young Chopinists at the Kosciuszko Foundation
Winners of the first Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition for Young Pianists, held in Washington DC in early March, will be presented in a recital at… Read more »
New Contemporary Music Platform for Scores & Recordings
BabelScores is a new, French-based website that grew out of the need to diffuse and promote contemporary music from the last 40 years, rendering information… 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 »
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 »
Awards February 2018
Lutosławski Cello Competition Laureates The International Lutosławski Cello Competition in Warsaw is the first and still the only competition in Poland where the complete portfolio of cello… Read more »
January Awards
Poland Well Represented at ICMA 2018 For the 2018 International Classical Music Awards, the ICMA Jury has once more selected musicians and organizations that have distinguished… Read more »
G. Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors
On November 24, 2017, the jury of the 10th International Grzegorz Fitelberg Competition for Conductors announced the winners of this year’s edition. The jury—composed of: Juozas Domarkas… Read more »