2019-04-03
“A three-day festival of new music; seven concerts, two installations, nearly fifteen hours of music – only the most recent works. Thirty composers, more than half of whom are associated with PWM Edition – all this has made me happy, and I am leaving Katowice one hundred per cent satisfied,” said Daniel Cichy PhD, Director and Editor-in-Chief of PWM Edition, summing up the 8th Festival of Premieres in Katowice, which came to its close last Sunday.
2015-10-12
"Five Miniatures" for orchestra by Elżbieta Sikora and "Three Polish Dances (Mazur, Kujawiak, Oberek)" for brass quintet and organ by Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska have been selected for the ISCM World Music Days Festival in South Korea. The prestigeous festival will be held between 29 March and 3 April 2016.
2014-09-25
This year, Wrocław will play host to the prestigious festival known as World Music Days.
The program contains compositions available from the PWM catalogue incuding composers like Zygmunt Krauze, Witold Lutosławski, Paweł Łukaszewski, Elżbieta Sikora, Karol Szymanowski and Agata Zubel.
2014-07-25
On 3rd and 4th September 2014, the Tianjin Grand Theatre in China will stage the opera Madame Curie by Elżbieta Sikora. Anna Mikołajczyk, playing the main part, will be accompanied by the Choir and Baltic Opera Orchestra (conducted by Wojciech Michniewski).
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.
2013-10-20
Today, October 20, Elżbieta Sikora – one of the most original Polish composers - celebrates her 70th birthday.
2013-09-03
On September 6 in Paris there will be a concert on the occasion of Elżbieta Sikora's 70th birthday and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Witold Lutosławski - music lovers will hear Sikora's „Sono-sphère 1-Twilling” (world premiere) and Lutosławski's "Chain 1" amongst other works.
2013-06-28
24 June 2013 Elżbieta Sikora received the Gloria Artis bronze medal from the hands of the Ambassador, Tomasz Orłowski, awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Bogdan Zdrojewski. The ceremony, organised by the Polish Institute in Paris took place in the Monaco Palace, residence of the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland.
2013-06-20
Académie du Disque Lyrique have distinguished the DVD with the opera “Madame Curie” by awarding the composer with a special prize: Orphée du Prestige Lyrique de l'Europe de l'Academie du Disque Lyrique. The ceremony to award the Orphée will take place on June 25, 2013 in the Paris Théâtre Châtelet.
2013-03-06
There will be a promotional meeting on March 8 at 17.30 in the foyer of the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk with the artists and publishers of the Madame Curie DVD. The meeting will be attended by composer Elżbieta Sikora
2013-01-09
Witold Lutosławski, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Marta Ptaszyńska, Elżbieta Sikora, Zbigniew Bujarski i Zygmunt Krauze - distinguished composers associated with our publishing house, with anniversaries that fall this year.
2012-11-29
On December 2, Michel Supéra will perform Elżbieta Sikora’s „Lisboa, tramway 28" for saxophone and electronics in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes.
2012-09-12
As part of events surrounding this year's edition of the "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music we will be able to hear music by Elżbieta Sikora and Kazimierz Serocki.
2012-04-18
Already this coming Friday the Musica Polonica Nova Festival begins. It is one of the most important events in the country presenting contemporary music. As every year, you will hear classics of the twentieth century and recent compositions written especially for this festival.
2012-04-18
Between April 28 and May 13, 2012 the XIX Bydgoszcz Opera Festival will be held. Music lovers will be able to enjoy the operas: "Rusalka" by A. Dvorak, Piotr Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin", "Prince Igor" by Alexander Borodin and "Madame Curie" by Elżbieta Sikora.
2012-02-27
Elżbieta Sikora and Anna Mikołajczyk-Niewiedział were awarded the Sztorm Roku 2011 prize of the Year 2011 for the opera "Madame Curie".
2012-01-19
Elżbieta Sikora, composer of the opera „Madame Curie”, and Anna Mikołajczyk-Niewiedział, creator of the title role, have been nominated for the Sztorm Roku 2011 Award.
2012-01-17
We would like to present fragments of the review in the last edition of last year’s “Ruch Muzyczny” of Elżbieta Sikora’s opera „Madame Curie, written by Anna Pęcherzewska–Hadrych.
2011-11-29
Maria Skłodowska-Curie was an active and avid cyclist, who also held a driving license and organised mobile x-ray laboratories during World War I, but first and foremost she was a female scientist, who was not afraid of hard, backbreaking work – says Dr. Roman Luboradzki from the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences about the Polish nobel prize winner, heroine of Elżbieta Sikora’s opera, in an interview for PWM.
2011-11-23
On November 25 the long-awaited Polish premiere of Elżbieta Sikora’s "Madame Curie" will take place on the stage of the Baltic Opera. The success of world premiere which took place on 15 November in Paris has whetted the appetite of music lovers in Poland.
2011-11-22
On 25 November the premiere of the opera "Madame Curie" will take place in the Baltic Opera. Marek Weiss, director, talks specially to PWM about the project.
2011-11-21
We invite you to listen to interesting observations of the lead actress in Elżbieta Sikora’s opera "Madame Curie" – Anna Mikolajczyk-Niewiedział. The accomplished soprano tells about her preparations for the role, her perception of the great scholar and her feelings associated with the performance of this part.
2011-11-18
We invite you to listen to Elżbieta Sikora's comments about her latest opera, "Madame Curie". The composer speaks about the creation of the opera, about a meeting with Hélène Langevin-Joliot, among other things, and also her perception of the famous scholar.
2011-11-16
We are delighted to announce that Elżbieta Sikora’s new opera "Madame Curie" was received by the Parisian public with great enthusiasm. The audience gave a particularly warm welcome to the composer and the excellent actress in the lead role - Anna Mikołajczyk - Niewiedział. The audience was captivated by the interesting design of the work, particularly highlighted by the director, Marek Weiss and the great music.
2011-11-03
On November 15, 2011 the world premiere of Elżbieta Sikora's opera "Madame Curie" will take place in Paris, performed to celebrate the International Year of Chemistry and the 100th anniversary of Maria Skłodowska-Curie being awarded the Nobel Prize.
2011-01-18
A huge festival of Polish music starts this Saturday in New York
