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 »
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 »
POLMIC’s Easter Surprise Together with the director Mieczysław Kominek, our friends at the Polish Music Information Centre in Warsaw (POLMIC) once again came through for… Read more »
The Jazztopad Festival, in partnership with Polish Cultural Institute New York, continues The Great Improvisation series online live-streamed from the National Forum of Music (NFM)… Read more »
The Easter Chamber Music Festival is a new initiative which will be included in the artistic calendar of Zielona Góra, Poland. Since the festival was… Read more »
The latest book published by PWM Edition—Danuta Gwizdalanka’s Uwodziciel – Rzecz o Karolu Szymanowskim [The Seducer – A thing about Karol Szymanowski] —will appear in bookstores on… Read more »
A concert to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Prof. Krzysztof Penderecki will take place under the honorary patronage of Prof. Piotr Gliński – Deputy… Read more »
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 »
Throughout the spring of 2021, the Polish Cultural Institute New York (PCINY) will curate “Krzysztof Penderecki in Memoriam,” honoring the life and legacy of Poland’s… Read more »
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 »
The second edition of the Stanisław Moniuszko International Competition of Polish Music will be held between 11 and 18 September 2021. The juries will be… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Although Szymon Laks (1901-1983) wrote five string quartets, the first two, composed before World War II, are now lost. Laks survived the Holocaust and his… Read more »
The world premiere of Martyna Kosecka’s Concerto for clarinet, multi-percussion and string orchestra, as well as works by Witold Lutosławski and Andrzej Krzanowski, made up… Read more »
Works by Polish composers – Józef Elsner, Fryderyk Chopin, Aleksander Tansman, Witold Lutosławski, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, and Władysława Markiewiczówna – will be performed by Książek Piano… Read more »
On 5 March 2021, the Krakow Philharmonic hosted a prologue to the 2nd Szymanowski / Poland / World Festival. At this prologue concert, audiences were… Read more »
The ongoing “Distinguished Lectures” series is being offered by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. During 2021, the lectures will… Read more »
The 25th edition of the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival began 20 March and will continue to offer programming until 2 April 2021. The concerts… Read more »
Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music welcomed this season with a truly spring-like event: the 8th Krakow Cello Spring. On 21 March 2021, the festival was… Read more »