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10th ‘Emanacje’ Festival: Wieniawski Cycle and Pianohooligan

Recognized jazz musicians and all Polish participants of the 16th Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Poznań took part in this year’s jubilee edition of… Read more »

Tagged Contemporary Music, Festivals, July 2022, News

5th Royal Opera Polish Music Festival & Krauze Premiere

This year the Polish Royal Opera hosted its 5th Festival featuring a plethora of Polish music from July 2nd to July 24th. The Festival included… Read more »

Tagged Contemporary Music, July 2022, News, Premieres

NIMiT on Streaming Platforms

The National Institute of Music and Dance (NIMiT) now has recordings available on major streaming platforms such as Spotify. As streaming has become an increasingly… Read more »

Tagged July 2022, News

Celebration of Wojciech Kilar’s 90th Birthday

Wojciech Kilar was one of Poland’s greatest twentieth century symphonic composers. He studied piano with Władysława Markiewiczówna and composition with Bolesław Szabelski at the State… Read more »

Tagged Contemporary Music, Festivals, July 2022, News

In Memoriam: Kazimierz Kord

May 7, 2021

The distinguished conductor Kazimierz Kord died on 29 April 2021 at the age of 90. His artistic biography is a great chapter of Polish culture.… Read more »

Tagged May 2021, News, Obituaries

Book Chats—”Awangarda: Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish Music”

April 6, 2021

Lisa Cooper Vest—assistant professor of musicology in the Thornton School of Music, and presenter at the recent PMC Spring Górecki event—has recently published a book… Read more »

Tagged #stayathome, April 2021, Musicology, News, Publications, Workshops

Online Lecture on Polish Jewish Music by Prof. Halina Goldberg

March 9, 2021

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 »

Tagged #stayathome, Lectures, March 2021, Musicology, News

Preview of Opałka’s Party Crasher

February 19, 2021

A teaser for the new electroacoustic work by Tomasz Jakub Opałka, entitled Party Crasher, is now up online. It features performances on the cello by… Read more »

Tagged Electroacoustic, February 2021, News, Premieres

Online Piano Academy

February 9, 2021

The Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City will conduct an Online Piano Academy February 26-28, 2021. Open to all aspiring artists under the age of… Read more »

Tagged Competitions, February 2021, News

Jarociński Archive at IS-PAN

February 5, 2021

The Special Collections Department of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IS-PAN) recently acquired the archive of Stefan Jarociński, an outstanding… Read more »

Tagged February 2021, Musicology, News

New Release: Polish Heroines of Music

February 5, 2021

Polish Heroines of Music Elżbieta Sikora (b. 1944): Sonosphère V. Wanda Landowska; Hanna Kulenty (b. 1961): Aisthetikos; Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969): Contradizione; Agata Zubel (b. 1978):… Read more »

Tagged Discography, February 2021, News

‘Music from Chopin’s Land’ – an international project of PWM Edition

December 1, 2020

PWM Edition has launched a campaign and an international educational project, which brings the works by Polish composers closer to audiences worldwide. ‘Music from Chopin’s… Read more »

Tagged December 2020, News

Paddymania in Poznań!

November 18, 2020

Very few artists earned the honor of having their family name converted into a noun describing a wildly popular fad, but this little fact is… Read more »

Tagged News, November 2020

49th Polish Composers’ Union Musicological Conference

October 16, 2020

The 49th Polish Composers’ Union Musicological Conference will be held from 25-27 October 2020 at the Academy of Music in Kraków. This year’s theme of… Read more »

Tagged Conferences, News, October 2020

Premieres of Miniatures from Poznań Academy

August 4, 2020

In August and September, the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań will present a new concert series entitled “Contemporary Chamber Miniature in the… Read more »

Tagged August 2020, News, Premieres, September 2020

Krauze Premieres

August 4, 2020

Zygmunt Krauze is preparing two new compositions for the beginning of the season. On September 2, during the 12th CODES Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde… Read more »

Tagged August 2020, News, Premieres, September 2020

New Musicology and Music PR website

July 13, 2020

  My name is Maria Opalka. I’m a musicologist, music producer and a public relations specialist. I love music and I’m fascinated by culture, especially… Read more »

Tagged July 2020, News

Baczewska’s “At Home” concerts

July 13, 2020

Given the current pandemic situation, the New York-based Polish pianist Magdalena Baczewska continues to perform in the virtual realm. Using her home as a musical… Read more »

Tagged #stayathome, July 2020, News, Performances

Darek Oleszkiewicz’s New Solo Album

July 7, 2020

Last week, Darek Oleszkiewicz released a new album entitled “The Promise.” The album is a tribute to the music of John Coltrane, in acoustic solo… Read more »

Tagged Discography, July 2020, News

Polaczyk Wins in NYC

July 1, 2020

The 2019-2020 American Prize in Composition – Instrumental Chamber Music Division, was announced on June 9. The laureate is young Polish composer Jakub Polaczyk for… Read more »

Tagged Awards, July 2020, News

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