Polish Music at Jacaranda
Vivid Reveries Held on May 25, the concert ‘Vivid Reveries’ will cap the 2018/2019 Jacaranda Music Series season. ‘Vivid Reveries’ will feature highly acclaimed former… Read more »
Performances
L.A. premiere of ‘Farewell, Auschwitz’
On Tuesday, April 23 in Newman Hall, vocal and instrumental students of the USC Thornton School of Music will perform the Los Angeles premiere of… Read more »
Concert to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
On 18 April 2019, on the eve of the 76th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra under the… Read more »
Moniuszko Bicentenary Gala at Carnegie Hall
The Polish Government has declared 2019 the Year of Stanisław Moniuszko, who is known as the father of Polish Opera. Celebrations of this bicentennial will… Read more »
Daniel Wnukowski Carnegie Hall Debut
Polish-Canadian pianist Daniel Wnukowski makes his Carnegie Hall debut showcasing the work of Karol Rathaus, a Polish exiled composer who settled in New York soon after his… Read more »
Chemistry of Love Warsaw Premiere
The Warsaw premiere of “Chemistry of Love“ (Requiem Records – Opus Series), the latest album by Marzena Majcher, will take place on 4 April at… Read more »
Premieres by Śmigasiewicz and USC Thornton’s Adams at POLIN Music Festival
The second edition of the POLIN Music Festival was held from 15-17 February 2019 in Warsaw. Organized by the POLIN Museum of the History of… Read more »
Stanisław Barańczak re-imagines Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’
When Polish bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny and his pianist Lech Napierała step before their audience at New York’s Kosciuszko Foundation to perform perhaps the most famous… Read more »
Ewa Trębacz Premieres
“Over a decade of my Ambisonic recordings sessions will culminate in two very different premieres in Seattle – on Feb.22 at Cornish College of the Arts… Read more »
New Work by Piotr Grella-Mozejko
Throughout February, Piotr Grella-Możejko‘s new work, Nature morte avec noir (à la memoire de Piotr de Peslin Lachert) for piano and saxophone, was performed in Canada… Read more »
Resounds: New Polish Music
On January 17, the Witold Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Studio will host a second concert in the “Resounds: New Polish Music” series. The Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra… Read more »
100th Birth Anniversary of Mieczysław Weinberg
A total of 22 symphonies, including seven for voice and orchestra, eight operas, 17 string quartets, concertos, sonatas, cantatas, and songs… One cannot stop marvelling… Read more »
Grażyna Bacewicz Year
2019 marks a double anniversary for Grażyna Bacewicz, who was born 110 years ago on February 5, 1909 in Łódź and died in 50 years ago,… Read more »
Daniel Wnukowski at LA Museum of the Holocaust
On 3 March 2019, the LA Museum of the Holocaust will present a rare Los Angeles performance by Polish-Canadian pianist Daniel Wnukowski, who will perform an… Read more »
Polish Music Spring: Celebrating Anniversaries
Saturday, 23 March 2019 | 4:00 P.M. Polish Music Spring: Celebrating Anniversaries Concert Alfred Newman Recital Hall, USC (see AHF on campus map) 3616 Trousdale… Read more »
Dancing Chopin
A review by Marek Zebrowski Commemorating the centenary of regaining Poland’s independence, during the second half of November the Polish National Opera Theatre in Warsaw… Read more »
20th Century Polish Symphonic Music
The Jerzy Semkow Sinfonia Iuventus Polish Orchestra, under the direction of Marek Wroniszewski, will perform the works of Bacewicz, Szymanowski, Różycki and Karłowicz on January… Read more »
Musical Epitaph in Memory of Paweł Adamowicz
The Polish premiere of Epitaph for Paweł Adamowicz composed by Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz will take place on January 18. Monika Kaźmierczak will perform the piece on the carillon of… Read more »
PMC Celebrated Poland’s Centenary of Independence in Poland and France
In Poland Held under the title “Kontrasty-Niepodległa” [Contrasts-Independence], the 56th Bydgoszcz Music Festival celebrated the centenary of Poland’s regained independence with a wide-ranging presentation of… Read more »
2018 ‘Festival of Song’ in Warsaw
Held during the first half of December, the 15th Festival of Song [XV Festiwal Pieśni] concluded on Saturday, Dec. 15 with a concert at the historic… Read more »