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Krzysztof Meyer Receives a 2024 Golden Fryderyk Award

Poland’s Phonographic Academy [Akademia Fonograficzna] and the Association of Audio Video Producers [Związek Producentów Audio Video – ZPAV] have announced the recipients of the 2024 Golden Fryderyk Awards. This year, four artists have joined the exclusive group of musicians who received this prestigious lifetime achievement award. The official ceremony dedicated to jazz and popular music will take…Continue Reading Krzysztof Meyer Receives a 2024 Golden Fryderyk Award

New Szymanowski Album by Warsaw Philharmonic

The National Philharmonic in Warsaw has released a new album – Szymanowski Reimagined (FN 08/ACD 330), featuring outstanding violinist Bartłomiej Nizioł and the National Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Andrzej Boreyko. Transporting listeners on a fascinating journey through varied musical landscapes, the album contains some of the most interesting piano compositions by Karol Szymanowski,…Continue Reading New Szymanowski Album by Warsaw Philharmonic

SMPK Members Nominated For FRYDERYKI 2024 Awards

The Phonographic Academy [Akademia Fonograficzna] and the Association of Audio Video Producers [Związek Producentów Audio Video – ZPAV] have opened up the first round of voting for the FRYDERKI 2024 Awards—Poland’s equivalent of the American Grammy Awards. Since 1995, the FRYDERKI Awards have been recognized by Polish musicians as the most prestigious awards in the…Continue Reading SMPK Members Nominated For FRYDERYKI 2024 Awards

PMC Welcomes New Staff Member: Dr. Tomasz Fechner

This has been a very exciting half a year at the USC Polish Music Center, so exciting that we’ve barely had time to properly digitally welcome our newest staff member, Dr. Tomasz Fechner. Tomasz, or Tomek, has been a good friend of the PMC since 2015 when he was a classical guitar student at the…Continue Reading PMC Welcomes New Staff Member: Dr. Tomasz Fechner

Earth Singing Project with Katarzyna Sadej

On Wednesday March 22nd, mezzo-soprano Katarzyna Sadej will be at USC as a guest speaker in collaboration with USC Levan Institute for the Humanities’ “Sound In Sacred Spaces” series. As a speaker for this, Sadej will be presenting her Earth Singing Project, a project in which she records herself singing live in natural landscapes to…Continue Reading Earth Singing Project with Katarzyna Sadej

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 the Emanacje Music Festival. This year’s Wieniawski Cycle began on the 9th of July at 7:00 p.m. with a recital by Judyta Kluza-Sporniak (violin) and Grzegorz Skrobiński (piano). Additionally, Pianohooligan…Continue Reading 10th ‘Emanacje’ Festival: Wieniawski Cycle and Pianohooligan

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 twelve performances and concerts. One of the festival’s biggest highlight events was the premiere of Zygmunt Krauze’s The Night of Ravens that took place on the first day of the…Continue Reading 5th Royal Opera Polish Music Festival & Krauze Premiere

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 popular way to discover music and push artists’ work out to the public, there is no doubt that the presence of the NIMiT on these platforms will contribute to the…Continue Reading NIMiT on Streaming Platforms

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 Higher School of Music in Katowice. His compositions range from orchestral pieces and film scores to chamber vocal-piano and instrumental scores and he had great influence on modern classical music….Continue Reading Celebration of Wojciech Kilar’s 90th Birthday

In Memoriam: Kazimierz Kord

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. In 1969-1973 he was director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Polish Radio and Television, from 1977 to 2001 he was director of the Warsaw Philharmonic, in 2005-2006 he was…Continue Reading In Memoriam: Kazimierz Kord