The Kosciuszko Foundation chapters in New York and Washington D.C. will host virtuoso pianist and composer Aleksander Dębicz for a series of two concerts. These recitals will feature the artist’s own compositions as well as improvisations on works by Frederic Chopin. Sunday June 9th | 5:00 PMAleksander Dębicz: Compositions & ImprovisationsThe Kosciuszko Foundation2025 O Street,…Continue Reading Dębicz at the Kosciuszko Foundation
From May 13 to June 9 2024, Sinfonia Varsovia musicians are touring Warsaw, performing as part of the 24th “Sinfonia Varsovia To Its City” Festival, together with invited guests on six stages of the capital. The program includes premieres, symphonic and chamber concerts, children’s events, and new music formats. Among the performers touring will be…Continue Reading 2024 ‘Sinfonia Varsovia To Its City’ Festival
The 53rd “Poznan Music Spring” Festival of Contemporary Music began on May 23 and came to its conclusion this past weekend on May 26. This festival of contemporary music featured an incredible variety of composers as well as their pieces. Premieres of works by Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska, Artur Kroschel, Monika Kędziora and Sławomir Czarnecki took place…Continue Reading 2024 ‘Poznań Music Spring’ Festival
On Saturday May 25, the Polish History Museum in Warsaw hosted a concert to commemorate the 110th anniversary of composer Andrzej Panufnik. In this concert, the Andrzej Jagodziński Trio and Sinfonia Iuventus (conducted by Maciej Tomasiewicz) performed Panufnik’s Sinfonia rustica and Sinfonia sacra, as well as Jagodziński’s Piano Concerto in G minor for Jazz Trio…Continue Reading Panufnik 110th Anniversary Concert
On May 28, the Silesian Philharmonic hosted a birthday gala for Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa, featuring works of the outstanding composer. The event featured a screening of the film Under Pressure of Sound and Word, followed by a celebration with the composer on her new monographic album on the Anaklasis label (ANA 030). It concluded with a…Continue Reading Wnuk-Nazarowa Birthday Gala in Katowice
The Kosciuszko Foundationin New York City just announced the Marcella Sembrich International Voice Competition. It will be held October 12-13, 2024, and the winners will split over $20,000 of prize money. Singers of all nationalities aged 20-32 may apply and the application deadline is August 1, 2024. The Sembrich Competition is overseen by its Artistic…Continue Reading Sembrich International Vocal Competition in NY
by Marek Zebrowski The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra presented two concerts last weekend that opened with Overture for Orchestra, a brief and brilliant 1943 composition by Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969). Bacewicz—a virtuoso violinist and excellent pianist—showed her very best neo-classical side in this compact, six-minute-long work. Effective and challenging string writing coupled with bright woodwinds and…Continue Reading New Bacewicz: On Record and On Stage
On April 26, the winners of the 65th Jubilee Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers were unveiled during the Competition’s final concert, which was held for the first time at the Baird Philharmonic in Zielona Góra. Members of the Competition Jury included the following distinguished composers: Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil (chairwoman), Alicja Gronau, Rafał Kłoczko, Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz…Continue Reading 2024 Baird Competition for Young Composers
Maestro Wojciech Milewski will close the 20th season of the Summerville Orchestra with Odwieczne pieśni [Eternal Songs], a symphonic triptych by Mieczysław Karłowicz, in concerts on May 17 and 18. Entitled “A Summerville Celebration” and performed just outside of Charleston, South Carolina, the concert program will also include Mozart’s Overture to The Magic Flute and…Continue Reading Karłowicz in Charleston
Operatic soprano Dominika Zamara will appear in her New York City debut solo recital, An Evening with Dominika Zamara, on May 22 at Mary Flagler Cary Hall. She will premiere eight new works by several of the New York Composers’ Circle members, including Galen Brown, Robert S. Cohen, Eric Heilner, Barrett Kalellis, Timothy L. Miller,…Continue Reading Dominika Zamara: Solo Recital Debut in NYC