In August and September, the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań will present a new concert series entitled “Contemporary Chamber Miniature in the time of Pandemic. First Performances”. Every Thursday at 12:00 p.m. CET, new works by composers associated with the Poznań Academy will be presented on YouTube, Facebook and www.amuz.edu.pl. The series…Continue Reading Premieres of Miniatures from Poznań Academy
Zygmunt Krauze is preparing two new compositions for the beginning of the season. On September 2, during the 12th CODES Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music, audiences will hear the premiere of Copernicus – Our Planet for 6 mixed voices and string orchestra. The work will be performed by proMODERN vocal ensemble and the ‘Sinfonia…Continue Reading Krauze Premieres
A thought doesn’t cause friction. A sound doesn’t cause friction Time doesn’t cause friction. Speed causes friction. Stopping causes friction… Coexistence causes friction! Three related instruments carry on joint thoughts and sounds. Had they kept to their typical functions, they would have created an ideal texture. Just because they can. However… Friction. During the last…Continue Reading Premiere of ‘Friction’ By Zubel
“Music in the image. Image in the sound” is a series of concerts, workshops and lectures promoting contemporary music, organized by the Elżbieta Chojnacka Centre for Contemporary Harpsichord Music. The events will be held from 12 July to 22 November 2020 at the Palace in Rybna. Musical works inspired by painting, literature, mathematics, architecture, industry,…Continue Reading Tarnowskie Góry’s Interdisciplinary series “Music in the image. Image in the sound”
The online premiere of the multimedia composition by Aldona Nawrocka and Andrzej Kopeć, entitled Mr. Chopin. Someone Loves You!, will take place on 14 July 2020 at 7:00 p.m. as part of the Chopin-Górecki Open Festival 2020 at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Inspired by the work of Fryderyk Chopin, whose 210th birth anniversary…Continue Reading Chopin-Górecki Open Festival 2020
The first performance of Paweł Mykietyn’s latest work Chorale and Canon will take place on 10 July 2020 at 7:30 p.m. during an online concert from the “Polish Radio Choir – Music Dedications” series at the headquarters of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR). Although the official ending of the 2019-2020 concert season is behind us, online holiday…Continue Reading Paweł Mykietyn’s online premiere of his new work
Members of the POLIN Choir symbolically woke up the building of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, which has been closed due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, by performing Wojtek Blecharz‘s Mantra for Muranów. The premiere was streamed live on 22 June 2020 at 7:30 on the POLIN Museum…Continue Reading Blecharz Premiere at the POLIN Museum
A Piano Recital by Łukasz Krupiński In honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Karol Wojtyła, who would later be known as Pope John Paul II, pianist Łukasz Krupiński recorded a Chopin Recital on May 15. The recording was made in London’s Twickenham district at the house of Lady Panufnik, the wife of…Continue Reading Concerts Celebrating John Paul II
The latest work by Aleksandra Garbal, entitled Ostatnie słowa Aniołów i Ludzkich Serc przed Końcem Czasów [The Last Words of Angels and Human Hearts before the End of Time], was premiered on the website of the Church of Saint Catherine in Toszek as well as YouTube on May 3. The work was written on the occasion of…Continue Reading Aleksandra Garbal’s “Last words of Angels and Human Hearts before the End of Time”
Composer Mikołaj Laskowski, specializing in chamber instrumental and electronic music, has created the online premiere of his composition Sound isolation, which is available on www.youtube.com. Mikołaj Laskowski studied at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague and the Wrocław Academy of Music. He won the 3rd prize in the International Generace Competition (Ostrava) and received an award…Continue Reading “Sound Isolation”: New Composition by Mikołaj Laskowski