The year 2021 marks the eightieth anniversary of Ignacy Jan Paderewski’s death. He died after a short illness at the Buckingham Hotel in New York City on June 29, 1941. Known today as The Quin, this hotel is located on West 57th Street, a few steps away from Carnegie Hall, where Paderewski made his American…Continue Reading Paderewski Gala in NYC
A concert of flautists Łukasz Długosz and Agata Kielar-Długosz took place on 24 September 2021 at the Paderewski Centre in Kąśna Dolna (pictured below). The evening featured two world premieres of pieces for two flutes and piano by Wojciech Ziemowit Zych and Maciej Jabłoński. Łukasz Długosz is recognized by critics as one of the most…Continue Reading Premieres by Wojciech Ziemowit Zych and Maciej Jabłoński
The new 2021/2022 season of the Gorzów Philharmonic opened on September 24 with the music of Polish and Russian composers. Presenting extraordinary pictures, landscapes, stories and moods and expressing the great craftsmanship and imagination of each of the creators, works by Wars, Szymanowski, Mussorgsky and Stravinsky was presented by the Gorzów Philharmonic Orchestra under the…Continue Reading Opening Concert of the 2021/2022 season of the Gorzów Phil
Sixteen concerts featuring music by distinguished Polish and foreign composers will be held from 18 September to 17 October 2021 throughout Silesia. This year’s edition of the G. G. Gorczycki International Festival, subtitled “Transformations,” aims to show the greatest changes in the history of music that took place in two very different epochs: the Baroque…Continue Reading 2021 G.G. Gorczycki Int’l Festival
On 11-18 September 2021, the Mieczysław Karłowicz Association in Zakopane presents the 13th “Muzyka na szczytach” [Music on the Heights] International Festival. This year’s edition features such renowned musicians as Marcin Masecki, Olga Pasiecznik, Agata Zubel, Szymon Komasa, Marcin Zdunik, the NFM Orchestra and Choir conducted by Marzena Diakun and Camerata Silesia. The International Festival…Continue Reading 2021 “Music on the Heights” Int’l Festival
SONORA Music continues to actively promote artists on its roster, despite the pandemic-induced slowdown in live performances during the past year. They have instead used that time to organize a number of concert premieres as well as recordings and album releases. Celebrations of Krauze, plus Zubel Premiere Conductor Wilson Hermanto led the National Polish Radio…Continue Reading SONORA Artists News: Krauze, Sikora & Koziak
On September 9, Polish conductor Marta Gardolińska will lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic in her Hollywood Bowl debut. The program will open with Grażyna Bacewicz‘s Overture (1943), which packs the power of a larger symphonic work into a compact six minutes structure. It continues with Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto performed by soloist Hélène Grimaud, who…Continue Reading Gardolińska Hollywood Bowl Debut
The 64th International Festival of Contemporary Music ‘Warsaw Autumn’ [Warszawska Jesień] will run from September 17-25, 2021. This year’s edition will be immersed in space and time; in sounds, signs, and symbols. It will enable audiences to experience complexity, diversity, ambiguity, and polyphony. On September 17, the periscope goes down and, for a good nine…Continue Reading 2021 ‘Warsaw Autumn’ Full Program Revealed
The 17th International Music Festival “Chopin and His Europe” / “Chopin i jego Europa” will be held from August 14-31, 2021. Following this year’s theme of “So far away, and yet so close… [Tak daleko, tak blisko…], in addition to the works of Chopin the Festival will emphasize the “more distant” connections of his works…Continue Reading 2021 “Chopin and His Europe”
The organist Krzysztof Karcz and trombonist Tomasz Stolarczyk inaugurated the 9th Lower Silesian Music Festival on August 1, 2021 in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Festival will run from August to October. The theme of this year’s edition of the Lower Silesian Music Festival is “Searching for harmony,” as…Continue Reading 2021 Lower Silesian Music Festival “Searching for Harmony”