PMC Celebrates 30!
Polish Music Center is thirty years old this year. In honor of this important milestone, we have launched a month-long crowdfunding campaign. We invite PMC… Read more »
October 2015
Paderewski Festival Extravaganza
The 2015 Paderewski Festival once again promises to deliver a great variety of concerts with fascinating music, great ambiance provided by historic venues and charming… Read more »
2015: Musica Antiqua Polonica
A survey of early Polish music with Adam Knight Gilbert and USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia Sunday, October 18, 2015 | 7:00 p.m. Alfred Newman Recital Hall,… Read more »
Recent Donations To The PMC Library
Thank you for expanding our collection! Manuscript Donation: Jan Jarczyk It has been just over a year since the untimely death of great Polish jazz… Read more »
Previous Paderewski Festival Gala Artist Performs In Torrance
Russian pianist Nikita Mndoyants—who previously won the Paderewski Competition in Bydgoszcz and subsequently served as the Gala performer for the 2008 Paderewski Festival in Paso… Read more »
17th International Chopin Piano Competition
Under the honorary patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland Bronisław Komorowski, one of the world’s leading piano competitions will begin on October 1,… Read more »
Stanczyk Premerie
On Sunday, October 4, a new piece by Marcin Stańczyk entitled Blind Walk will be premiered at La Biennale di Venezia by Ensemble Musikfabrik, under… Read more »
Premieres At HMG Festival
On October 24, the LutosAir Quintet (above) will perform the world premieres of two new pieces by young Polish composers Wojtek Blecharz – Hour/Plateau for… Read more »
Neo Arte Festival – Premieres & Monograph
Organized by the Tri-City ensemble NeoQuartet and the Neo Arte Association, the 4th edition of the Neo Arte – New Music Spectrum Festival will be… Read more »
Witt on Chopin
Piotr Witt is a noted writer and historian who, for many years, contributed commentaries and essays for international radio broadcasts of Radio Free Europe. Mr.… Read more »
2nd Szymanowski Composers Competition
The Szymanowski Composers’ Competition is organized by the Karol Szymanowski Music Society in collaboration with the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. The subject… Read more »
Górecki Day at London’s Barbican
On October 3rd, the late Polish composer, Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki, will be celebrated at London’s Barbican Centre shortly before the 5th anniversary of Gorecki’s death.… Read more »
#New Concert Hall In Wroclaw
Construction on the National Music Forum building is now finished and open to hosting concerts, conventions, symposiums, conferences and other exciting events with state-of-the-art equipment.… Read more »
Helena Paderewska’s Memoirs
In our June 2015 issue of this Newsletter, we reported on the publication in Polish translation of Madame Paderewska’s Memoirs, recently discovered and edited by… Read more »
Early Polish Music In October
OCTAVA Ensemble in Chicago OCTAVA ensemble, one of the most interesting vocal groups of the young generation in Poland, will present an exclusive a cappella… Read more »
Lang Lang Performs Chopin In O.C.
Under the direction of its new artistic director, John Magnum, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County has announced its concert programs for the 2015-16 season.… Read more »
Celebrations of Polish Heritage Month
San Francisco: Dozynki Polish Harvest Event and Party: Celebrating 40 Years of Łowiczanie Sat, Oct 24 – 5:30pm till 1am Established in 1975, Łowiczanie Polish Folk… Read more »
Zimerman Receives Honorary Doctorate From Chopin Univ.
On Thursday, Oct. 8, renowned Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman received an honorary doctorate from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. During the ceremony,… Read more »
Anderszewski Wins 2015 Gramophone Award
Bach – English Suites Nos 1, 3 & 5 Johann Sebastian Bach: English Suites, No. 1 in A, BWV806; English Suites, No. 3 in G… Read more »
Koryfeusz Award Nominations
On September 14, the Program Committee for the Institute of Music and Dance chose the nominees for the 2015 Koryfeusz Polish Music Award in… Read more »