Gorzów Phil Anniversary
May 18 marked the seventh birthday of the Gorzów Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2011 a beautiful new building was opened with an inaugural concert featuring Beethoven’s… Read more »
News
Bruzdowicz Birthday!
Polish composer Joanna Bruzdowicz celebrated her 75th birthday this month. A longtime friend of the Polish Music Center and one of the first distinguished lecturers… Read more »
Kinga Augustyn Explores her Career as a Violinist
In her extensive May 8 interview for the Nowy Dziennik, a Polish language newspaper in New York, violinist Kinga Augustyn shared her insights on studying… Read more »
PWM Composer of the Month: Zygmunt Krauze
PWM Editions’s April “Composer of the Month” campaign will familiarize music lovers with the œuvre of Zygmunt Krauze. He is an extraordinary figure in the… Read more »
PWM’s ‘100 for 100’
Polish Music Publishers (PWM) is planning to publish and record one hundred works by over eighty Polish composers, written between 1918 and 2018. This project… Read more »
Kuropaczewski In Classical Guitar Magazine
The Winter 2017 issue of Classical Guitar Magazine features the article “Lukasz Kuropaczewski Honors Poland’s Composers, Teaches Next Generation.” In it, author Steve Mann interviews Polish guitarist… Read more »
‘Jeune Chopin’ International Competition for Children & Youth
The aim of the Frédéric Chopin Institute in Switzerland is to promote the work of the greatest Polish composer and to organize musical events focused mainly on… Read more »
2018 Chopin FDN Opportunities For Young Pianists
Presented in partnership with the Chopin Foundation of the United States, the Frost Chopin Academy will be held for pianists up to the age of 28 from June… Read more »
Interview with Katarzyna Sądej
Related to her recent performances as Prince Charming in Ottawa, Canada, mezzo-soprano Katarzyna Sądej gave an interview on February 16 that is available on www.youtube.com. Casual yet informative,… Read more »
Early Romantic Songs At The Royal Castle
Marta Boberska, one of the soloists of Poland’s Royal Opera, and pianist Emilian Madey presented a recital of early romantic lieder at Warsaw’s Royal Castle on March… Read more »
50th Anniversary Of March 1968
A symphonic concert commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the events of March 1968—during which an anti-semetic purge drove as many as 20,000 Jews from Poland—was… Read more »
‘Forbidden Songs’ – Palester Celebration
“Forbidden Songs: Lost Music of Midcentury Poland”—a two-day festival exploring the fraught artistic and personal decisions confronted under repressive regimes—will be held on March 17-18… Read more »
‘Forgotten Polish Music’ In Opole
Much of the music in the deep treasury of forgotten Polish music—often discovered only after many years of non-existence—can still surprise us. The next symphonic… Read more »
March Premieres
Composing Commissions Premieres in March The following are details on various premieres supported by the “Collections – Composing Commissions” program, which is funded by the Ministry… Read more »
January News
Polaczyk Premiere By Augustyn In NYC On Sunday, January 14 at Spectrum, a popular new music venue in New York City, Polish violinist Kinga Augustyn will present the… Read more »
Chopin, the Poet and Musician
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning… Read more »
Tribute: Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil
On December 10, 2017, the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław and the Wrocław Branch of the Polish Composers’ Union organized a Tribute Concert… Read more »
Premieres at “Composer Portraits” Series
On December 4 and 5, 2017 at the Łowicka Center in Warsaw, the 27th edition of the “Composer Portraits” concert series will take place. “Composer Portraits” have… Read more »
Ochlewski Composer’s Competition
The Tadeusz Ochlewski Composer’s Competition has been organized by Polish Music Editions (PWM) since 2003 and aims to promote young composers of Polish descent who are under… Read more »
Meyer Premiere
On December 17, 2017, the world premiere of Musica Concertante by Krzysztof Meyer will take place at the Krzysztof Penderecki European Centre for Music in Lusławice, Poland. This virtuosic work… Read more »