Chylińska Triumphant!
On June 20th of this year, Polish musicologist Teresa Chylińska celebrated her 90th birthday. This extraordinary individual and a dynamic force par excellence in the… Read more »
Awards
Winners of the 2021 “Sinfonietta per Sinfonietta” Composition Competition
The results of the 7th International “Sinfonietta per Sinfonietta” Composers Competition have been announced. The subject of this year’s Competition was to compose a piece… Read more »
Chyrzyński Around the World
Marcel Chyrzyński—a noted composer and member of the Polish Composers’ Union [ZKP] – Kraków branch—has also been closely associated with the Polish Music Center since… Read more »
Music and the Pandemic
With the winter pandemic surge seemingly behind us and with spring giving way to the high summer months, the hopes for fair weather and smooth… Read more »
2021 Polish Composers’ Union Awards
On 17 March 2021 the Presidium of the Main Board of the Polish Composers’ Union (ZPK) awarded the Award of the Polish Composers’ Union for… Read more »
Michał Balas has received the title of “Cello Individuality 2021”
Michał Balas, a student of the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź, is the winner of the 1st Polish National Dominik Połoński Cello Competition,… Read more »
ISCM World Music Days 2021 – results of the Polish national stage
This year’s World Music Days festival, organized by the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM), will take place over the course of eight days in… Read more »
Mieczysław Karłowicz International Composers’ Competition: Premieres & Winners
The final concert of the 1st Mieczysław Karłowicz International Composers’ Competition was held on Friday, 19 March 2021 at 7.00 p.m. CET, and broadcast via… Read more »
Hieronim Feicht Competition 2020 Results
On 18 March 2021, the Jury of the Professor Hieronim Feicht Competition for the Best Doctoral Dissertation awarded the authors of works in the field… Read more »
Stuttgart Composition Prize for Laskowski
In 2021, Mikołaj Laskowski received the 66th Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart, which is a joint initiative of SWR radio, the ECLAT festival,… Read more »
2021 Fryderyk Award Nominations
America has had its Grammy Awards since 1959, when the first gala ceremony was held and, in 1995, Poland followed this fine example by instituting… Read more »
Polityka’s Passports 2020 Winners
On 26 January 2021, for the 28th time, Polityka magazine awarded outstanding artists with their coveted ‘Passports’—one of the most important cultural awards in Poland.… 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 »
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 »
2020 Paderewski Festival Youth Piano Competition
The Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles announces the winners of the 2020 Youth Piano Competition. Due to the pandemic, this year’s Youth Competition auditions were… Read more »
Weinberg Takes Gramophone Recording of the Year
The 2020 Gramophone Classical Music Awards—presented in collaboration with Apple Music, E. Gutzwiller & Cie, Banquiers and Help Musicians UK—held an outdoor and virtual ceremony… Read more »
IMIT 2020/2021 Research Awards
Poland’s Institute of Music and Dance [IMIT] selected 15 projects for financial support awards under its “Białe plamy—muzyka i taniec” [Blind spots—music and dance] program.… Read more »
POLMIC Announced as a Scientific Library
The Music Library of the Polish Composers’ Union (ZKP)—known as the Polish Music Information Center POLMIC, a sister organization of the USC Polish Music Center—has… Read more »
6th Int’l Composition Competition “Sinfonietta per Sinfonietta: Hommage à Krzysztof Penderecki”
The 6th International Composition Competition “Sinfonietta per Sinfonietta: Hommage à Krzysztof Penderecki” has been settled and winners have been selected. Sinfonietta Cracovia—the Orchestra of the Royal… Read more »
Polaczyk Wins in NYC
The 2019-2020 American Prize in Composition – Instrumental Chamber Music Division, was announced on June 9. The laureate is young Polish composer Jakub Polaczyk for… Read more »