Tag: Performances

16th Kwartesencja Festival: Premiere of Aleksander Nowak’s String Quartet No. 3

Since its creation in 2004, Kwartesencja Festival has represented not only the essence of the most beautiful, intimate chamber music-making, but also the answer to the question of what the modern world sounds like. The last concert of this year’s edition will be held online on 11 December 2020, featuring music by Krzysztof Penderecki and…Continue Reading 16th Kwartesencja Festival: Premiere of Aleksander Nowak’s String Quartet No. 3

“New Music in the Old Town Hall”: Sound Winter Gardens

The Baltic Sea Cultural Center in Gdańsk in cooperation with the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music and the Department of Composition of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk present the concert “Sound Winter Gardens” on 10 December 2020 at 7.00 p.m. This year’s last concert in the series “New Music in the Old Town Hall”…Continue Reading “New Music in the Old Town Hall”: Sound Winter Gardens

19th Silesian Days of Contemporary Music – Premieres

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The 19th Silesian Days of Contemporary Music, organized by the Polish Composers’ Union (ZKP), is being held from 19 November to 8 December 2020. The first concert, performed by the MagDuś Duo (pianist Magdalena Duś and saxophonist Bartłomiej Duś), featured Przemysław Szczotka’s Simbiosis, written especially for the duo, and the premiere of Stanisław Bromboszcz’s Monodrama…Continue Reading 19th Silesian Days of Contemporary Music – Premieres

Int’l Days of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Festival 2020

42 concerts and broadcasts, 8 world premieres, and countless emotions – this is what the 8th “International Days of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki” Festival has to offer to its audience. The inauguration took place on the 10th anniversary of the composer’s death, on 12 November 2020, and the last concert will take place on his birth…Continue Reading Int’l Days of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Festival 2020

Panufnik, Kilar at Warsaw Philharmonic

On Friday, December 4, the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw will perform a program including works by Andrzej Panufnik, Wojciech Kilar, and W.A. Mozart, as well as the Polish premiere of a 2008 work by Austrian composer Kurt Schwertsik. The soloist for the first Polish performance of Schwertsik’s Now you hear me, now you don’t,…Continue Reading Panufnik, Kilar at Warsaw Philharmonic

6th “New Waves” Contemporary Music Festival

The Sinfonietta Pomerania Foundation held the 6th “New Waves” Contemporary Music Festival online on 3-9 December 2020. This year’s sixth “New Waves” festival was designed to meet today’s times – difficult for all of us, especially for artists. The festival concerts were recorded by the invited musicians, taking all precautionary measures, in halls filled with virtual…Continue Reading 6th “New Waves” Contemporary Music Festival

In Memory of Professor Penderecki

The first in the series of December online concerts of the Krakow Philharmonic, which took place on 6 December 2020 at 6.00 p.m., was organized to celebrate the 87th birth anniversary of Maestro Krzysztof Penderecki. During the retransmission on the Philharmonic’s YouTube channel, the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir under the baton of Antoni Wit…Continue Reading In Memory of Professor Penderecki

Virtual Polish Music Experience

The “Polish Music Experience” is a project of the “Porta Musicae” Artistic Association that aims to popularize Polish composers and artists in Poland and abroad. Four concerts have been broadcast live on Sundays in November 2020 (8, 15, 22 and 29) at 6.00 p.m. CET. The project features famous Kraków musicians, winners of international competitions…Continue Reading Virtual Polish Music Experience

12th Schaeffer’s Era from the New World – Schaeffer in L.A.

Ghost Road Company (Los Angeles) and Warsaw Bauhaus Foundation (Warsaw) present an international real-time collaboration: original works of dance, theatre, and film, created to respond to the work of maverick Polish composer and playwright, Boguslaw Schaeffer. The event will be live-streamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network on Monday 23 November 2020 at…Continue Reading 12th Schaeffer’s Era from the New World – Schaeffer in L.A.

Marta Ptaszyńska Premiere

The world premiere of Marta Ptaszyńska‘s Concerto No. 2 for flute and orchestra will take place on 20 November 2020 at 7:00 p.m (Central European Time), performed by the Warmian-Masurian Philharmonic. The online version will be available on the ensemble’s YouTube channel. The piece was created as part of the “Composing Commissions” program carried out by the…Continue Reading Marta Ptaszyńska Premiere