An event with 17 years of tradition, the Ogrody Muzyczne [Music Gardens] Festival will be held this year from July 1-26, 2017 in Warsaw’s Royal Castle. For the last 10 years, the main guest of the festival has been the country that annually assumes the leadership of the Council of the European Union on July 1. This…Continue Reading XVII Music Gardens Festival
The 20th edition of the “Summer Concerts at Grochowska” series will take place from May 20 to August 27, 2017. Hosted by Sinfonia Varsovia at their hall on Grochowska St. in Warsaw, this festival is an intimate series of 28 free concerts featuring outstanding artists of the young generation. Performers include participants in the Sinfonia…Continue Reading Summer Concerts at Grochowska
The 13th edition of the Polish Music Festival will be held from July 7-16, 2017 in Kraków. Organized since 2005, the festival aims to present valuable works by Polish composers, written from the Middle Ages to the present day, and to contrast them with the world’s music and display them in various contexts. Audiences will hear both…Continue Reading Festival of Polish Music
The 2017 International Composition Competition “Sinfonietta per Sinfonietta,” held under the honorary patronage of prof. Krzysztof Penderecki, took place on June 18, 2017. The aim of the competition is to promote young composers and to broaden the repertoire for string orchestra. After careful analysis and evaluation of the anonymously submitted works, the Jury—comprised of Joanna…Continue Reading International Composition Competition ‘Sinfonietta per Sinfonietta’
From July 6-14, the Stanisław Słowiński Quintet will tour China. The Quintet is comprised of Stanisław Słowiński – violin, Zbyszek Szwajdych – trumpet, Joachim Mencel – piano, Justyn Małodobry – double bass and Piotr Budniak – drums. Their concerts are part of the 4th edition of ‘Jazz Po Polsku,’ a series presenting a wide spectrum of Polish…Continue Reading Polish Jazz in China
Conducted by Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny, the Guri Youth Choir of Santa Marcelina will perform an all-Polish program in São Paulo, Brazil on July 22-23, 2017. Their repertoire of sacred choral music will include such composers as Łukasz Farcinkiewicz, Marcin Tadeusz Łukaszewski, Paweł Łukaszewski, Stanisław Moniuszko, Marek Raczyński, Józef Świder, Romuald Twardowski and Michał Zieliński. The Guri Program provides musical…Continue Reading Polish Sacred Choral Music in Brazil
Polish singer and composer Agata Zubel will perform at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival on July 13 and 15, both with the orchestra and in a late night solo performance. These events were organized in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the Polska Music program The Festival’s inaugural July 13 program will include her 2012 piece Labyrinth for…Continue Reading Agata Zubel in Baltimore
On July 5, 2017 at the Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, a concert-monodram entitled “Dźwięk odnaleziony” [Sound Regained] took place. It was the first solo project of Michał Pepol, who is the cellist from the internationally renowned Royal String Quartet. For the project, Pepol performed the music of modern composers writing for solo cello, in cooperation with visual artist Paweł…Continue Reading Michał Pepol: Dźwięk Odnaleziony
A new work by Wojtek Blecharz, Body-Opera is dedicated to the audience and questions the model of music perception based on mere sitting, listening and watching. This opera installation explores the relations between the human body and the ways we perceive sound, reminding us of its physical nature. If sound is frequency, or a vibration, it can “touch”…Continue Reading Premiere of Wojtek Blecharz: Body-Opera
The 2017 Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles will be held from Thursday, November 2 through Sunday, November 5 in various venues around this beautiful wine country location once beloved by Ignacy Jan Paderewski. The 2017 lineup of world class artists include: Hyuk Lee, the 19 year-old South Korean phenom who recently won the prestigious International Paderewski Piano Competition in…Continue Reading Paderewski Festival 2017 Preview