The Kosciuszko Foundation Tuition Scholarships support American students of Polish descent for graduate studies at colleges and universities in the United States. Scholarships ranging from $1,000 to $7,000 are awarded on a competitive basis for one academic year. Funding is for full-time studies during the academic year of September 2017 – May 2018. All fields and majors…Continue Reading KF Tuition Scholarships
In October 2016, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage launched the 6th edition of its highly sucessful “Composing Commissions” program for the 2017-2018 artistic season. This program is implemented by the Institute of Music and Dance (IMiT) and creates opportunities for musical creation and performance throughout the year. The very long list of the…Continue Reading ‘Composing Commissions’ Announced for 2017-2018
The 7th edition of the “Days of New Music” Festival will be held between January 18 – 22 in Gdańsk. The theme of this year’s event will be based on two ideas: exploring aspects of collective collaboration vs. individual compositional process, and presentation of music by avant-garde artists. Since its very beginning, the festival has focused on…Continue Reading Days of New Music 2017
A new work by composer Marek Chołoniewski called Wiatrofale, which combines multimedia elements with music, will have its premiere on January 23-25 in the cities of Radom, Kraków and Kielce in Poland. It will be performed by the Symphony Orchestra of the Kolberg School of Music in Radom, under the baton of Przemysław Zych. Artur Lis will provide…Continue Reading Chołoniewski Premiere
…nothing short of enthralling. Hers is a stunningly rich, beautiful voice, with a deep, perfectly centered vibrato and pitch allied to profound expressiveness. (James Altena, Fanfare Magazine) Polish-Canadian Mezzo-soprano Katarzyna Sądej was born in Wrocław, Poland and recently relocated to San Diego, CA. She has sung internationally in concert, opera, chamber music, oratorio and recital. Sądej has performed…Continue Reading Upcoming Sadej Performances
Held since September 2016, the “SUPERSAM PLUS 1”cycle is a series of concerts combining solo and duo performances by musicians of varying genres with performance art and multimedia presentations. The remaining events will be presented on consecutive Thursdays during the months of November and December in Warsaw. Featured in the program will be numerous collaborations…Continue Reading “Supersam Plus 1” Concert
“Let’s Play Karłowicz” is a project initiated by PWM Edition in celebration of Mieczysław Karłowicz’s 140th birthday anniversary on December 11. The program includes a series of fourteen concerts featuring Karłowicz’s music, which will be performed throughout December all around Poland. Various orchestras—such as the Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Lublin Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Opole Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra—have been invited to…Continue Reading Let’s Play Karlowicz!
Composer and pianist Jarosław Siwińskihas been named the new director of the Warsaw Music Encounters Festival. Władysław Słowiński, who founded of the festival and served as the previous director, has agreed to continue his involvement as the honorary director of the event. Warsaw Music Encounters is an annual festival organized by the Warsaw department of the Polish Composers’…Continue Reading Siwiński to Direct Warsaw Music Encounters
The 69th session of Musica Moderna, organized by the Grażyna and Kiejstut Academy of Music in Łódź, will be held between December 3 and 8, 2016. The program consists of a series of concerts given by Kwartludium, Wojciech Błażejczyk and several young musicians and Łódź-based students of the Academy of Music, featuring compositions by Grażyna Bacewicz, Tadeusz Wielecki, Sławomir Kaczorowski, Artur Zagajewski, Krzysztof Grzeszczak, Eugène…Continue Reading 69th Musica Moderna
Under the baton of Maestro Jerzy Maksymiuk, Sinfonia Varsovia will present several reconstructed works of Polish music during the Second World War and the interwar period on December 2, at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The concert program will commence with Aleksander Tansman’s Symphony No. 5, a piece dedicated to his friend and composer, Paweł Klecki. Together…Continue Reading Sinfonia Varsovia Performs Tansman and Klecki