Upcoming CA and NY concerts for Ukraine
The Ukrainian Cultural Center in Los Angeles, the Honorary Polish Consulate in San Francisco (per the San Francisco Chronicle) and the Kosciuszko Foundation have shared… Read more »
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Upcoming Concerts for Ukraine: LA, NY, & Illinois
Please see below for information about several benefit concerts being held in support of humanitarian relief for Ukrainians, organized and supported by Polish organizations throughout… Read more »
Perspectives on the Paderewski Competition in LA
The semi-final and final rounds of the Third American International Paderewski Piano Competition in Los Angeles are taking place at Loyola Marymount Universityv in Los Angeles from… Read more »
Penderecki Remembered, in Film & Podcast
Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020) was one of the progenitors of avant-garde music of the 1960s. Creator of his own compositional idiom, “sonorism,”… Read more »
Ewa Trębacz: Composing in a Pandemic
Long a friend of the PMC, Polish-American composer Ewa Trębacz is based at the DXARTS Center for Digital Art and Experimental Media in Seattle, Washington.… Read more »
Chopin Foundation: Chopin All July Long
The Chopin Foundation of the United States has had its headquarters in Miami since 1977. Founded by Blanka A. Rosenstiel as a non-profit organization with… Read more »
2021 WigroSfera Festival
The 2nd edition of the Wigrosfera Festival was held on July 2-3, 2021 in the Wigry National Park and in Suwałki, as a musical response… Read more »
2021 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival
The 2021 New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF), one of the most important events in this area of creative activities, is being held from… Read more »
“Impresjowizacja” – Instagram as Compositional Forum
The inauguration of the project “Impresjowizacja”, supervised by Polish composer Aleksandra Chmielewska, took place on June 23, 2021 on the Instagram account of the Julian… Read more »
Atom String Quartet & Paweł Gusnar Celebrate Penderecki & Lem at Wschód Kultury
The ninth edition of the “Rise of Eastern Culture. European Stadium of Culture” [Wschód Kultury] festival will be held on 25-27 June 2021 in Rzeszów.… Read more »
‘Ignacy Paderewski: Patriot & Philanthropist’ Concert
On Tuesday, June 29, the Arts and Culture Foundation [FKiS] presents a free online memorial concert to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the death of… Read more »
New Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries’ Online Concert
The Music School Complex [Zespół Szkół Muzycznych] in Poznań will end the school year with a panache concert of Poland’s largest cultural institutions. This unique… Read more »
E4TT Presents Emigres & Exiles in Hollywood: Series Finale
Since they kicked off the Paderewski Festival in 2019, the Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) has been doing all of their performances virtually this season, allowing… Read more »
Ryterband by Fechner: New Sonatina Recording on YouTube
Roman Ryterband (1914-1979) completed his Sonatina for Classical Guitar in 1978. It was his last finished work and an opus on which he certainly… Read more »
Music and the Pandemic
With the winter pandemic surge seemingly behind us and with spring giving way to the high summer months, the hopes for fair weather and smooth… Read more »
Kinga Reigns on YouTube!
The New York-based Polish violinist Kinga Augustyn continues to be very active in a variety of recordings and collaborative video projects. One of these, launched… Read more »
Book Chats—”Awangarda: Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Polish Music”
Lisa Cooper Vest—assistant professor of musicology in the Thornton School of Music, and presenter at the recent PMC Spring Górecki event—has recently published a book… Read more »
9th Festival of Premieres “Polish Modern Music” Program
“Usually hidden behind their sounds, giving the floor to the performers of their works, during the Festival of Premieres composers are in the center… Read more »
Online Premiere of “Job” by Krzesimir Dębski, text by Karol Wojtyła
On 25 April 2021 at 7.00 p.m. the world premiere of Krzesimir Dębski‘s Job—an opera based on Karol Wojtyła’s drama—will be held online through the… Read more »
Jazztopad ‘Great Improvisation’ Series Livestream Continues
The Jazztopad Festival, in partnership with Polish Cultural Institute New York, continues The Great Improvisation series online live-streamed from the National Forum of Music (NFM)… Read more »