Tag: Contemporary Music

Winners of the 2025 Penderecki Competition for Young Composers

On March 24, 2025, the winners of the 8th International Krzysztof Penderecki Competition for Young Composers, organized by the Kraków Branch of the Polish Composers’ Union (ZKP), were revealed. The competition jury—comprised of Marcel Chyrzyński (chairman), Zbigniew Bargielski, Ivan Buffa (Slovakia), Federico Gardella (Italy), Jeajoon Ryu (South Korea), and Wojciech Widłak, with competition secretary Aleksandra…Continue Reading Winners of the 2025 Penderecki Competition for Young Composers

Premiere of One-Act Opera Celebrating Sustainability by Baczewski

On April 11 in Italy, the one-act opera Jezioro Popiołów [Lake of Ashes] by Beniamin Baczewski (b. 1991) will had its world premiere. The opera was created as part of the “Project Butterfly“ International Composition Competition, a collaboration between three European institutions: the Teatro Comunale di Modena (Italy), Opera Box in Helsinki (Finland), and the Baltic Opera…Continue Reading Premiere of One-Act Opera Celebrating Sustainability by Baczewski

World Premieres at the 2025 Krakow Int’l Festival of Composers

The Krakow International Festival of Composers has long been a vital platform for showcasing contemporary music, both from Poland and abroad. As it enters its 37th edition this May, the festival continues its legacy of commissioning, supporting, and celebrating new music with an impressive lineup of thirty-one world premieres. Held annually since 1989, this Festival…Continue Reading World Premieres at the 2025 Krakow Int’l Festival of Composers

Kamieniak on Stages in England and Poland

Tomasz Kamieniak, a Polish pianist and composer based mainly in Berlin, Germany, will appear as soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 58 with the London International Concert Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Alexander Walker. The May 4 concert will be heard at the Hampstead Garden Suburb Free Church in London’s North Square….Continue Reading Kamieniak on Stages in England and Poland

Paweł Hendrich’s New Album “Fractalized”

On March 28, Paweł Hendrich‘s latest monographic album entitled “Fractalized” was released by the DUX record label. This album (DUX 2136) contains four works performed over the last eight years by artists specializing in new music performance from Poland, Austria and Switzerland. The tracks—containing pieces entitled Phantomaticon, Just a little beat, Hordiaver and Absusurrus—were recorded…Continue Reading Paweł Hendrich’s New Album “Fractalized”

Wołek Awarded 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship & Other Honors

Krzysztof Wolek and Michael Matsuno 2011 New Generations concert, USC Newman Hall, Los Angeles. Photo: Brian King

Krzysztof Wołek—Polish composer, pedagogue, improviser, and installation artist—has been named a recipient of the 100th edition of the Guggenheim Fellowship. Currently a professor of composition and director of electronic music studies at the University of Louisville, Wołek is one of 198 distinguished individuals selected in various categories of science and contemporary art for this prestigious…Continue Reading Wołek Awarded 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship & Other Honors

‘Warsaw Memories: Klezmer Glitch Music’ by Marcin Krzyżanowski

Warsaw Memories: Klezmer Glitch Music commemorates the 82nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising with a powerful evening of music and multimedia performance. The concert will feature the San Diego debut of renowned Polish avant-garde composer and cellist Marcin Krzyżanowski, a leading figure in the Low Definition Art and Noise Music movement. Sharing the stage…Continue Reading ‘Warsaw Memories: Klezmer Glitch Music’ by Marcin Krzyżanowski

New Release of Weinberg’s ‘The Passenger’

Maestra Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the Orquesta Del Teatro De Madrid collaborated on a new recording of Mieczyław Weinberg’s opera The Passenger. The release of this digital album on Grammophon Records in January 2025 coincided with the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. Singers on the…Continue Reading New Release of Weinberg’s ‘The Passenger’

Fryderyk Awards 2025 – Classical Music Winners Announced

On Sunday, March 30, the winners of Poland’s most prestigious phonographic awards in classical music were revealed at the hall of NOSPR [National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra] in Katowice, renowned for its exceptional acoustics. The awards were presented across twelve categories, celebrating outstanding achievements in classical music recording. The winners of the in classical music…Continue Reading Fryderyk Awards 2025 – Classical Music Winners Announced

Premiere of Lost Work by Koffler: String Qtet Op. 20

At the end of March, audiences will hear the premiere of a work that was created 90 years ago by Józef Koffler, Poland’s first dodecophonist composer whose life and career were cut short by the Nazis. Details of Koffler’s largely unknown oeuvre are richly discussed in the PMC’s Polish Music History Series No. 8, Józef…Continue Reading Premiere of Lost Work by Koffler: String Qtet Op. 20