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Elżbieta Sikora's "Five Miniatures for Orchestra"- After the Premiere
2013-11-28
On the occasion of Elżbieta Sikora's 70th birthday, Polish Radio 2 organised a concert, which took place on November 24 in the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio in Warsaw. The Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Wojciech Michniewski played, premiering the work "Five Miniatures" for orchestra.Lutosławski's Music in Copenhagen
2013-11-26
On November 29, 2013 a concert organised by the Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC will be held in Copenhagen to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Witold Lutosławski.Profiles the Winners of the XI Tadeusz Ochlewski Composers Competition
2013-11-21
The eleventh edition of the competition which is aimed at promoting the work of young composers was won by Franciszek Araszkiewicz (awarded work - "Monster Group Number") and Marta Śniady (awarded work - “s!c2”) - below are their current achievements.Zygmunt Krauze's "Pułapka" Returns to the Boards of the Wrocław Opera
2013-11-21
The nearest performance of Zygmunt Krauze's opera, acclaimed by critics and audiences, „Pułapka” ("The Trap") will be held on February 28 at the Wrocław Opera.25th Anniversary of the Death of Tomasz Sikorski
2013-11-13
Today is the 25th anniversary of the death of Tomasz Sikorski. The composer created an original style of music, characterised by the combination of features of minimalism with sonorism. His musical aesthetic is also distinguished by programmality.Premiere of Paweł Mykietyn's "Concerto for Flute and Orchestra"
2013-11-13
On November 29 the Łódź Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Wojciech Rodek and Łukasz Długosz (flute) will premiere "Concerto for Flute and Orchestra" - Paweł Mykietyn's latest work.Concert in Berlin Promoting the National Edition of the Works of Fryderyk Chopin
2013-11-04
On November 10, at the Deutsche Oper-Berlin in Berlin, there will be a promotional meeting for the National Edition of the Works of Fryderyk Chopin, combined with a concert of chamber music.Most popular:
We are proud to announce that Joanna Woźny is joining the ranks of composers represented by PWM Edition. This highly regarded composer has been living and working in Graz, Austria, for many years. She composes music that is in high regard among ensembles and orchestras specialising in contemporary music.
The short documentary “Bacewicz x Bomsori”, directed by Jakub Piątek, is reaching an ever-wider international audience. The film, which explores South Korean violinist Bomsori Kim’s encounter with the music of Grażyna Bacewicz, will be screened at upcoming film festivals in Warsaw, Reykjavik and Barcelona.
Contact. Sonoromanza is an opera by Alek Nowak and Paweł Sołtys’s literary debut in the world of classical music. A contemporary tale of longing, the desire for conversation and the need for closeness, performed by Joanna Freszel, Karol Kozłowski and the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy, conducted by Marek Mos. The debut album, ANAKLASIS, is now available to buy and on streaming services.
October will bring a series of world premieres of the latest compositions by artists represented byPWM Edition. New works by Zygmunt Krauze, Alek Nowak, Joanna Woźny, Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska, Agata Zubel, Paweł Malinowski, Andrzej Kwieciński and Aleksander Lasoń will be performed in Poland, as well as in Japan, Germany and Austria.
On September 14, the prestigious Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari will host the Italian premiere of Zygmunt Krauze's two-act opera, which tells the poignant story of Bona Sforza d’Aragona. Staging this work in Bari carries deep symbolic meaning – it is the very city where the title heroine spent her final years and was laid to rest.
This autumn, with the September premieres of the latest Polish music, we are stepping forward neither boldly nor timidly – in keeping with Gdańsk’s motto. It is in this city that the first world premieres will take place. In September, we will be listening to new works by Polish composers in Gdańsk, Warsaw and Valencia. For the first time, we will hear works by Tadeusz Wielecki, Lidia Zielińska, Krzysztof Knittel and Agata Zubel.
Karol Augustyniak and Artur Szczepkowski have been selected as winners of the composer.pl programme – an artistic residency in Iceland for young Polish composers. The invited participants’ creative residency in the ‘Land of Ice and Fire’ will last two weeks, from 8 to 25 September.
Today, 2 December, marks the start of the 18th edition of one of Europe's most prestigious conducting competitions: the Donatella Flick – London Symphony Orchestra Conducting Competition. Grażyna Bacewicz's Concerto for String Orchestra is among the repertoire as an obligatory piece.
This timeless encounter with the music of ‘Poland’s last Romantic’ Tadeusz Baird and with the interpretative feats of NOSPR Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra features three symphonies and four outstanding conductors in both rediscovered historical and new recordings, released together on a 2CD album from ANAKLASIS.
Iconic songs by Zygmunt Konieczny that audiences of Ewa Demarczyk loved decades ago in a new arrangement by Cezary Duchnowski. The latest ANAKLASIS album with Agata Zubel, Andrzej Bauer, Bartek Wąsik and the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Humala is now available for purchase.
