Wanda Wiłkomirska Obituary
Wanda Wiłkomirska, the great Polish violinist associated for decades with the Warsaw Philharmonic died on May 1. She was 89 years old. Born on 11… Read more »
Obituaries
Wojciech Maciejewski Obituary
Wojciech Maciejewski, the younger brother of composer, pianist and choral conductor, Roman Maciejewski (1910-1998), died in Warsaw on February 11. He was 94 years old. … Read more »
Lt. Gen. Edward Leon Rowny Obituary
Edward Leon Rowny, a retired U.S Army Lieutenant General, died on December 17, 2017. He was 100 years old. A commanding officer in World War II,… Read more »
Maciej Jabłoński
With great sadness we note the passing of musicologist Maciej Jabłoński, who died in Poznań on September 13. He was 55 years old. A graduate… Read more »
The Sound Man
Polish violinist Jerzy Milewski died in Curitiba, Brazil, on 23 June 2017. He was 70 years old. Born in Warsaw on 17 September 1946, Milewski… Read more »
Elżbieta Chojnacka
World renowned Polish harpsichord player Elżbieta Chojnacka passed away on May 28, 2017 at the age of 77. Chojnacka graduated from Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Muzyczna… Read more »
Elżbieta Chojnacka
World renowned Polish harpsichord player Elżbieta Chojnacka passed away on May 28, 2017 at the age of 77. Chojnacka graduated from Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Muzyczna in Warsaw… Read more »
Lidia Kierończyk
Lidia Kierończyk passed away on April 3, 2017 after fighting a long illness. She was a teacher of music theory and since 1999, she was… Read more »
Roderyk Lange
Roderyk Lange passed away on March 16. He was a devoted Polish researcher of dance, a founder of the Polskie Forum Choreologiczne, and a long-time… Read more »
Touching Infinity
Maestro Stanisław Skrowaczewski (1923-2017) at USC Special Collections in 2004 Ściskam dłoń—I shake your hand—was the recurring refrain expressed in person or at the close of… Read more »
Touching Infinity
Maestro Stanisław Skrowaczewski (1923-2017) at USC Special Collections in 2004 Ściskam dłoń—I shake your hand—was the recurring refrain expressed in person or at the close of… Read more »
In Memoriam Leoncjusz Ciuciura
Leoncjusz Ciuciura, an ardent advocate for contemporary music and co-organizer of the Polish Chapter of Jeunesses Musicales International, died on February 28. He was 86… Read more »
Andrzej Nikodemowicz
Polish composer, pianist and music teacher Andrzej Nikodemowicz died at the age of 92 on January 28, 2017. Born in January 2, 1925 in Lviv,… Read more »
Michał Kulenty
Polish performer, composer and poet Michał Kulenty has died at the age of 61 on January 3, 2017. Kulenty graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy… Read more »
Kevin Starr
Kevin Starr (R) with his fellow presenters and PMC organizers in 2010 Kevin Starr—world-famous historian, chronicler of California and distinguished USC Professor—died in San Francisco… Read more »
Eugeniusz Rudnik
Polish composer and sound engineer Eugeniusz Rudnik died on October 24, 2016 at the age of 83. He was a member of the Polish Composers’… Read more »
Henryk Ludwik Jankowski
Henryk Jankowski was born on August 25, 1924 in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He was born to Brunon and Joanna Jankowski and had two sisters, Lucja and… Read more »
Halina Łukomska (1929-2016)
Polish soprano Halina Łukomska died on August 30, 2016 at the age of 87. The artist studied voice with Stanisława Zawadzka and Maria Halfterowa at… Read more »
Elżbieta Dziębowska
April 4, 2016 marked the passing of Dr. Elżbieta Dziębowska, a noted musicologist and specialist in music of the nineteenth and twentieth century. For many… Read more »
Hope in Hollywood
Jann Castor, an outstanding Polish rock musician, guitarist, composer, arranger, poet, sound designer and film editor, died in Hollywood on 21 April 2016 after a… Read more »