During their recent tour of the U.S. and Switzerland, the Karolina & Iwo Duo visited the Morgan Library and Museum in Washington to perform their arrangement of a previously unknown Waltz by Fryderyk Chopin. Discovered by curator Robin McClellan while cataloging the Arthur Satz Collection, this significant piece is the first major Chopin discovery since…Continue Reading Karolina & Iwo Duo Perform Recently Discovered Chopin Waltz
From June 13–18 in New York City, the 2025 Jazztopad Festival will present a lineup including: Immanuel Wilkins with the Lutosławski Quartet (World Premiere – watch live here), Michiyo Yagi with Hamid Drake, Patricia Brennan & Maciej Obara, Maciej Obara NYC Quartet with John Patitucci & Nasheet Waits, Wacław Zimpel with Brooklyn Raga Massive with…Continue Reading 2025 Jazztopad NYC Festival
The 2025 season finale of the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic on May 30 will mark a significant artistic moment with the world premiere of the Non-Academic Overture by Agata Zubel. Born in Wrocław, composer Agata Zubel returns to her hometown with a new composition commissioned by the National Forum of Music as part of the “Composers’…Continue Reading Zubel’s “Non-Academic Overture” Premieres in Wroclaw
The Monster’s Voice is a new opera with music by renowned composer Alek Nowak and acclaimed librettist Robert Bolesto, and staged by visionary film director Agnieszka Smoczyńska. Premiering on June 27 and 28 at Aula Artis in Poznań during the Malta Festival, this original production fuses myth with contemporary reality, exploring themes of identity, alienation,…Continue Reading Opera Premiere of “The Monster’s Voice” by Alek Nowak
As the grand finale of the Westwood Library’s 20th Anniversary Celebration, the LA Musical Salon presents a special concert featuring the Three Yoder Brothers on Saturday, May 10. The three Polish-American pianists Łukasz, Kasper, and Dominik Yoder—all graduates of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music—will present a program titled The Virtuoso Piano. The Yoder…Continue Reading The Yoder Brothers in Concert in Westwood
The Krakow International Festival of Composers has long been a vital platform for showcasing contemporary music, both from Poland and abroad. As it enters its 37th edition this May, the festival continues its legacy of commissioning, supporting, and celebrating new music with an impressive lineup of thirty-one world premieres. Held annually since 1989, this Festival…Continue Reading World Premieres at the 2025 Krakow Int’l Festival of Composers
Following on her triumphant return to Santiago, Chile to perform Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in April, Polish violinist Kinga Augustyn returns to the US for several concerts across the country in May. It starts with a Spring Concert in her adopted home of New York City at the John Paul II Friendship Center on…Continue Reading Kinga Augustyn Across the US in May
Tomasz Kamieniak, a Polish pianist and composer based mainly in Berlin, Germany, will appear as soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 58 with the London International Concert Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Alexander Walker. The May 4 concert will be heard at the Hampstead Garden Suburb Free Church in London’s North Square….Continue Reading Kamieniak on Stages in England and Poland
A workshop performance of A Single Man, a contemporary opera by Polish composer Wojciech Stępień to a libretto by Amanda Hollander based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood, will take place on Sunday, April 27 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. Admission is free, but attendees are asked to RSVP in advance. Wojciech…Continue Reading New Opera in Workshop – “A Single Man” in LA
Warsaw Memories: Klezmer Glitch Music commemorates the 82nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising with a powerful evening of music and multimedia performance. The concert will feature the San Diego debut of renowned Polish avant-garde composer and cellist Marcin Krzyżanowski, a leading figure in the Low Definition Art and Noise Music movement. Sharing the stage…Continue Reading ‘Warsaw Memories: Klezmer Glitch Music’ by Marcin Krzyżanowski