Tag: Performances

‘Andrzej Panufnik And His Vision Of Music’: Art & Science Conference

On the occasion of the jubilee of Andrzej Panufnik’s 100th birth­day anniversary, the Fryderyk Chopin Music University’s Chair of Music Theory is organizing the International Conference in Art and Science entitled ‘Andrzej Panufnik and his vision of music’ on September 24–26, 2014, in conjunction with the Institute of Musicology at Warsaw University and the Polish Composers’…Continue Reading ‘Andrzej Panufnik And His Vision Of Music’: Art & Science Conference

Music In Wartime Warsaw

Comprised of three concerts organized by the Witold Lutosławski Society and the Warsaw National Philharmonic, the Music in Wartime Warsaw [Muzyka w okupowanej Warszawie] series will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II and the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. Held on September 12-14, these concerts are devoted to showcasing…Continue Reading Music In Wartime Warsaw

Polish Music In Florida: 2014-2015

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

MozART Group & Krosny Come To Chicago

  “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

Chopin Preludes At Sundays Live!

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!

Albiński Spotlights Unknown Composers

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

Kolberg In Song

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

Opera Review: Transcryptum

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

Kilar Jazz In Kielce

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

Weinberg & Posmysz At Lincoln Center

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