The Warsaw Summer Jazz Days Festival (July 7-10, 2016) is happening for the 25th time this year and, as always, this July concert series brings leading international jazz stars to town, mixed in with performances by local talent. This year’s performers include Piotr Wojtasik’s Tribute to Akwarium Project, the Steve Lehman Octet, Steve Coleman Five Elements, Robin…Continue Reading Warsaw Summer Jazz Days
The new Young Arts Festival will be held from June 30 – July 10, 2016 in Krosno, Poland. Festival guests included such esteemed artists as Szymon Krzeszowiec, violin; Łukasz Błaszczyk, violin; Bartłomiej Tełewiak, violin; Piero Massa, viola; Roberto Trainini, cello; Michał Sadzikowski, piano; and Krzesimir Dębski, conductor and composer—these musicians serve as both performers and pedagogues in…Continue Reading Young Arts Festival
For the twentieth edition of the Nova Music and Architecture Festival in Toruń, organizers have prepared an extraordinary repertoire to celebrate this jubilee and invited a host of eminent musicians from all over the world to perform during the months of June-September. The Festival opened on June 24 with “A Blues Evening” featuring singer Marzena Ugorna, who…Continue Reading Nova Music and Architecture in Toruń
During the month of July, the 16th annual Ogrody Muzyczne [Musical Gardens] Festival will be held in the Courtyard of the Warsaw Castle. This year’s honored guest at the Festival is Slovakia, and thus this year’s theme is “…on both sides of the mountain….” Festival events include art, Polish culture and dance, opera and ballet. This year’s…Continue Reading Ogrody Muzyczne 2016
The 12th Festival of Polish Music will be held from July 8-17, 2016 at various venues throughout Kraków. The organizers have prepared a wide repertoire for this year’s Festival, which will include music from the Renaissance to the present. Below are a few of the concert highlights: July 8: American pianist Eric Lu—Fourth Prize winner at the 2015…Continue Reading Festival of Polish Music
Beginning on May 28 and continuing until November 27, the Traugutt Philharmonic in Warsaw will present the Thirteenth Festival of Song, featuring top-notch Polish and foreign vocal repertoire and performers. The Festival intersperses recitals devoted to vocal works by Polish composers with those featuring composers from other European countries. Concerts will be held in some of…Continue Reading Warsaw Festival of Song
The 2016 Festival ‘Zilele Muzicii Noi’ [Days of New Music] (June 4-7) in Chisinau, Moldova featured a Polish Music Day on June 4. The following Polish composers were on the program: Grażyna Bacewicz – Concerto for String Orchestra; Tadeusz Baird – Colas Breugnon; Witold Lutosławski – Five Folk Melodies; Andrzej Panufnik – Concerto for Bassoon and Chamber…Continue Reading Polish Contemporary Music in Moldova
The Tczew Guitar Festival will be held from June 3-5, 2016 in the Gdańsk region of Poland. This first edition of the Festival will include lectures, master classes and three concerts, featuring guitarists Monika Dżuła-Radkiewicz, Tomasz Fechner, and Festival Artistic Director Bartosz Paprot. This new Festival also includes a National Competition of Classical Guitar for children and…Continue Reading New: Tczew Guitar Festival
The Eighth edition of the Leo Festival in Wrocław (May 29 – June 4) was curated and directed by maestro Ernst Kovacic and this year’s edition focused on the athletic aspects of music. Both music and sport require good physical condition and feature a strong quest for excellence by all of its participants. With ballet being one…Continue Reading Leo Festival
The first edition of the TRZY – CZTE – RY! [Three-Four-Go!] Festival is being held in Warsaw from May 17-June 9, under the subtitle of “Contexts, Contrasts and Confrontations.” This theme will be explored in a series of ten concerts at the Polish Radio’s Lutosławski Studio, spotlighting the most recent trends in contemporary music. “Contrasts or confrontations are…Continue Reading Trzy – Czte – Ry!