"Meetings at the Composers': With Editors on the "Writings” of Roman Palester

The Polish Composers' Union and the Polish Music Publishing House, both of which are celebrating anniversaries in 2025, invite you to the first event of this year as part of the "Meetings at the Composers’" cycle. The special guests will be the editors...

"Meetings at the Composers'": presentation of the project "The Soul of Sounds"

Meeting with the protagonists of the project "The Soul of Sounds" and its author, Dr. Marietta Morawska-Büngeler, will take place on September 27, 2024, at 5:00 PM at the Polish Composers’ Union headquarters in Warsaw. Thanks to the support of the...

"Meetings with Composers”: Edward Sielicki, Katarzyna Szymańska-Stułka and Luyao Zhang

The Polish Composers' Union invites you to the next event in the "Meetings with Composers" series on August 30, 2024, at 5:00 PM: "There and Back Again, or the Boundaries of Tradition and Modernity" with Edward Sielicki, Katarzyna Szymańska-Stułka, and...

"Roman Berger in memoriam" – a meeting in memory of the Honorary Member of the Polish Composers' Union

The Polish Composers' Union invites you to a virtual meeting in memory of Roman Berger, an outstanding composer and philosopher of music, Honorary Member of the Polish Composers' Union. The meeting and promotion of the album with his music will take...

„Musicology Today” 2019 – Women Composers in Poland

The 16th volume of the "Musicology Today" – a double-blind peer reviewed journal published by the Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw and the Polish Composer’s Union, has been published. It is entirely devoted to Polish women composers. “The...

18th volume of 'Musicology Today' came out!

As the culinary pasticcio added appeal to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century aristocratic parties, working just as strongly on the sense of taste as on that of sight, so the operatic pasticcio and the pasticcio practice in general have enlivened...

19th Volume (2021) of the 'Polish Musicological Yearbook' available online

The nineteenth volume of Polish Musicological Yearbook of 2021 is now available on the yearbook’s website under the bookmark WYDANE NUMERY / 2021. Papers will also be published at the Sciendo platform. Printed version is being prepared by the Polish...

20 Years of Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC!

"For the sake of Polish musical culture, in order to widely disseminate Polish music, in the interests of Polish composers, musicologists and musicians, the Main Board of the Polish Composers' Union establishes the Polish Music Information Centre,...

51st Musicology Conference of the Polish Composers' Union ‘Music and Expression, Katowice, 13-15 October 2022

On October 13-15, 2022, the 51st Musicology Conference of the Polish Composers' Union ‘Music and Expression’ was held at the Academy of Music in Katowice. Musicologists and music theorists from all over Poland debated the problems related to expression...

A small archive of great things. Archive of Acts of the Polish Composers' Union on the website dobrespoleczne.pl

The Scientific Library of the Polish Composers' Union invites you to an online meeting entitled “A small archive of great things. Archive of Acts of the Polish Composers' Union on the website dobrespoleczne.pl", which will take place on the 21st of...

Archival materials from the "Warsaw Autumn" festival available online!

150 compositions performed at the International Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn" and digital copies of 400 photographs from the festival archive are available on www.polmic.pl as part of the "Warsaw Autumn Available!" project. In the last...

Budapeszt | With Polish music in neighbouring countries

A concert on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Poland's independence will take place in the Óbudai Társaskör concert hall in Budapest on 4 November 2018, exactly one week before the National Independence Day in Poland. The event is co-organized...

Children's Art Centre in Poznań deposited scores to POLMIC

Based on the cooperation agreement between the Children's Art Center in Poznań and the Polish Composers' Union, the archive of the Poznań institution is now available at the Polish Music Information Center POLMIC website. Children's Art Centre in...

Conference of New Music Festivals

The Conference of New Music Festivals was held at the University of Warsaw Library (56/66 Dobra Street) on September 16th, 2017. Celebrating the 60th jubilee edition of the "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music Mieczysław...

Dublin | Concert in Tribute to Krzysztof Penderecki

Krzysztof Penderecki's music will be heard on 10 October 2021 at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin as part of the popular Sundays@Noon series. The concert performed by Hard Rain Soloists Ensemble conducted by Sinead Hayes will be held as part of the...

Elaboration and conservation of the newly found files of the Polish Composers' Union Archive

Thanks to the subsidy of the General Directorate of State Archives as part of the competition for the implementation of the public task ‘Supporting archival activities 2022’ in the second half of 2022, we were able to continue the work started a year...

International Stanisław Moniuszko Composers’ Competition for a Micro-Opera Entitled "12 Minutes for Moniuszko"

In connection with the year 2019 having been declared the “Year of Stanisław Moniuszko” by an act of the Polish Parliament, the Polish Composers’ Union and Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera hereby announce the International Stanisław Moniuszko...

Krzysztof Penderecki: Europe in tribute to the Master

“Krzysztof Penderecki: Europe in tribute to the Master” is a series of two concerts organised in 2021 by the Polish Composers’ Union in collaboration with foreign partners from Lithuania and Ireland as part of the "Promotion of Polish Culture Abroad"...

Lisbon | With Polish music from the Baltic to the Atlantic

Only two days before the National Independence Day, on 9 November 2019, the O'culto da Ajuda in Lisbon will host a concert organised by the Polish Composers' Union in cooperation with the centre for creation, development and promotion of contemporary...

Marietta Morawska-Büngeler "The Soul of Sound. Conversations with Polish Composers"

Dr. Marietta Morawska-Büngeler’s book “Dusza dźwięków. Rozmowy z polskimi kompozytorami” (The Soul of Sound. Conversations with Polish Composers), which spans over 1000 pages, contains in-depth interviews with fifteen composers who occupy important...

Materials from the "Warsaw Autumn" Festival available in the new POLMIC Digital Archive

600 archival photographs and 70 fragments of recordings from the "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music have been made available on the new POLMIC Digital Archive portal as part of the "Warsaw Autumn Available!" project. In recent...

Minsk | A musical journey through the century

A concert on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of regaining independence by Poland will take place at the Belarusian State Philharmonic in Minsk on 18 March 2018 . The Classic-Avangard ensemble, directed by Wladimir Bajdow, will perform works by...

Multimedia Chronicle of the 59th "Warsaw Autumn"

The 59th "Warsaw Autumn" was held between 16th and 24th September 2016 and focused among others on the theme of contemporary opera. This fact encouraged us to produce for the first time in the history of the Chronicle series the Multimedia Chronicle...

Mycielski online. Presentation of the internet portal www.mycielski.polmic.pl

The Polish Composers' Union and the Polish Music Information Center POLMIC invite you on the 16th of May, 2023 at 6.00 p.m. to the presentation of the internet portal www.mycielski.polmic.pl, dedicated to the composer and writer Zygmunt Mycielski...

New Visual Identification of Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The Polish Music Information Center POLMIC celebrates its 20th birthday this year! On this occasion, upon entering a new chapter, we decided to change our visual identification, which is a response to the changing world, as well as the need for better...

New works from Visegrad Group countries

Central European Music Forum concert "New works from Visegrad Group countries" took place on September 15th, 2017 at 4 p.n. in the Great Assembly Hall (Ballroom) at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. Celebrating the 60th jubilee edition of the "Warsaw Autumn"...

Photo Gallery of Andrzej Markowski from the ZKP collection

Andrzej Markowski (pseudonym Marek Andrzejewski), conductor and composer; born August 22, 1924, Lublin, died October 30, 1986, Warsaw. In 1939-41 he studied in Lublin with Artur Malawski (composition), and in 1943-44 in Warsaw with Marcelina...

Photo Gallery of Krzysztof Penderecki

The Polish Music Information Center POLMIC has prepared an online gallery of Krzysztof Penderecki's archival photographs from the collection of the Polish Composers' Union, which is now available on the POLMIC website. Krzysztof Pendercki was...

Photo report from the "Meeting with the Composers": Jerzy Kornowicz, Michał Mendyk, and Digital Culture at the Polish Composers' Union

"Meeting with the Composers" on November 29, 2024, was full of surprises! As part of the series organized by the ZKP, Michał Mendyk conducted an interview with composer Jerzy Kornowicz, which took an unexpected turn: most of the questions were related...

Photo report from the "Pre-Christmas Meeting with Composers"

On December 20, the last "Pre-Christmas Meeting with Composers" of 2024 took place at the headquarters of the Polish Composers' Union, beautifully lit on the Old Town Market Square. This time, Dr. Michał Piekarski, a renowned researcher of the musical...