Miami-based Chopin Foundation of the U.S. announces the Ninth National Chopin Piano Competition and the 2014-15 Concert Season Schedule. Held in Miami every five years, the Competition attracts the best American pianists (ages 17 – 30) to compete for $160,000 in cash prizes during a week-long Chopin extravaganza. The Chopin for All Free Concert Series…Continue Reading Polish Music In Florida: 2014-2015
“We exist despite the sober formality of great concert halls, despite the boredom of classical musicians’ life, despite fanatic lovers of classical music, despite fans of rock, rap or pop who are afraid of classical music. We treat our Muse with a humorous irony and we’re sure, she will have nothing against it!”—MozART Group Up-To-Sound presents…Continue Reading MozART Group & Krosny Come To Chicago
Sunday, September 14, 2014 at 6:00pm, the Sundays Live! series at LACMA will present Korean pianist Inyoung Huh. Her program will consist of Bach’s Toccata in C Minor BWV 911 and Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op.28. Begun in 1948, SUNDAYS LIVE! is the longest-running music broadcast in Los Angeles. It presents weekly classical chamber music concerts…Continue Reading Chopin Preludes At Sundays Live!
Paweł Albiński, a young Kraków-based pianist, devotes his annual recital programs to music by unknown or little-known composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Researching in various libraries in Poland and Ukraine, Albiński has discovered about 30 works by 16 European composers and presented them for audiences in recitals in Kraków and Lviv during the…Continue Reading Albiński Spotlights Unknown Composers
The Twelfth Summer Lieder Festival at Wilanów Palace featured a performance of Kolberg’s songs at an evening concert on July 5. The beautiful atmosphere of this formal royal residence on the outskirts of Warsaw provided a splendid background for the recital featuring songs by Chopin, Moniuszko, and Szymanowski in addition to a selection of songs…Continue Reading Kolberg In Song
By Cindy Bylander [Article originally published in Musical Opinion Quarterly, April-June 2014. Used by permission of the author] In May 2013, the Grand Theatre/National Opera in Warsaw presented the first installment of Projekt P [Project P], which brings together “the hottest young Polish creators” in order to develop genre-shattering new operas. In the case of…Continue Reading Opera Review: Transcryptum
Pianist Kuba Stankiewicz presented a recital of music by Wojciech Kilar on July 31 at the Świętokrzyska Philharmonic Chamber Auditorium Hall in Kielce. This great jazz pianist presented the audience with twelve of Kilar’s best-known tunes from his many film scores as well as some additional improvisations. Kilar’s film music CD, as interpreted by Kuba…Continue Reading Kilar Jazz In Kielce
The Passenger—Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s uncompromising 1968 opera about the Holocaust, set to a libretto by Alexander Medvedev and based on the book The Passenger by Polish writer and concentration camp survivor Zofia Posmysz—will have its New York premiere July 10, 12, and 13, in a co-production with Lincoln Center Festival and Park Avenue Armory. The Houston…Continue Reading Weinberg & Posmysz At Lincoln Center
By popular demand, two of the Astoria Music Festival’s most popular shows will combine for a night of New Media Futuristic Art and Modern Dance, featuring Academy-Award winning technical wizard J-WALT and Portland’s award-winning Agnieszka Laska Dancers, whose RITE OF SPRING was a highlight last summer. Astorians had a chance to see the glimpse of…Continue Reading The Chopin Project In Astoria, OR
On May 29 and June 1, the Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra presents film music concerts, during which the screen will display multimedia fragments of known Polish and foreign films that were scored by Wojciech Kilar. The concert will feature great Polish soprano Iwona Hossa and Sinfonia Iuventus, conducted by Tadeusz Wojciechowski. The program includes selections from…Continue Reading Sinfonia Iuventus Performs Kilar