Photo Report from the Meeting with Rafał Augustyn

The International Festival of Contemporary Music “Warsaw Autumn” has just come to an end. In the incredibly rich program presented over the past week, we had our own modest contribution: a side event organized in cooperation with Polish Music...

Photo Report from the October "Meeting at the Composers'": Alicja Gronau and Anna Ignatowicz-Glińska

As part of the "Meetings with Composers" series, a discussion on the topic "Borders – Opportunity or Challenge?" took place on October 18, 2024, featuring Dr. Alicja Gronau, Associate Professor at UMFC, and Dr. Anna Ignatowicz-Glińska. We also had the...

Photo report from the presentation of Roman Palester's "Writings"

The editors of the three-volume collection of Roman Palester's Writings took part in the February "Meeting with Composers" – Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska, Iwona Lindstedt, Lech Dzierżanowski, Magdalena Borowiec, curator of the Polish Composers’...

Photo report from the presentation of the project "The Soul of Sounds"

A meeting with the figures featured in the project "The Soul of Sounds" and its author, Dr. Marietta Morawska-Büngeler, took place on September 27, 2024, at the Polish Composers' Union (ZKP) headquarters in Warsaw. The event was part of the 67th...

Photo Report from the Presentation of the Project “Józef Koffler – A Composer of Lwów and Europe”

For the first time, in the welcoming halls of the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw, on March 29, 2025, the wider public was introduced to: A unique monographic website dedicated to Józef Koffler, one of...

Photo report from the September "Meeting with the Composers": Krzysztof Knittel and Michał Mendyk

As part of the 67th "Warsaw Autumn" and the "Meetings with Composers" series, on September 21, 2024, at 5:00 PM, musicologist Michał Mendyk and composer Krzysztof Knittel spoke about their work on the book “Granice niczego” from the "People of the...

Polish Composers' Union Archive - edition and conservatory prevention

Thanks to the support of The Head Office of State Archives of the competition for a public task ‘Wspieranie działań archiwalnych 2021’ (Supporting the archive activity 2021) in the 2nd half of 2021 a ‘Polish Composers’ Union – edition and conservatory...

Polish Composers' Union invites you to the new website of the "Polish Yearbook of Musicology"

"Polish Yearbook of Musicology", published by the Musicologists' Section of the Polish Composers' Union, invites you to its new website. The "Yearbook" publishes articles and messages in Polish and English on all musicological subdisciplines, including...

Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC will create a catalog of works related to the widely understood Olympic theme

Due to the cooperation of the Polish Composers' Union with the Polish Olympic Committee, the Polish Music Information Center POLMIC intends to create a catalog of works related to the widely understood Olympic theme, which will facilitate the selection...

Polish Music Today - Portraits of Contemporary Polish Composers

The CD series Polish Music Today - Portraits of Contemporary Polish Composers was inaugurated in 2013 by Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC in co-operation with Polish Radio SA, thanks to the generous support of the Ministry of Culture and National...

POLMIC database of information on Polish contemporary composers' works

The database of information on Polish contemporary composers and their works is an electronic collection of data related to 20th and 21st-century Polish music. The principal source of information for this database are the publications and other...

POLMIC Digital Archive website has been launched

The new POLMIC Digital Archive website was launched in January for the purpose of making archive materials and documents of the Polish Composers’ Union (PCU) / Polish Music Information Centre available to all users. The materials include selected...

Presentation of a new website dedicated to Roman Maciejewski

Concert and presentation of a new monographic website prepared by the Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC will take place on 26 September 2020 (Saturday) at 6.00 p.m. in the Chamber Hall of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw. The new website –...

Presentation of new websites of the Polish Composers' Union: "POLMIC Digital Archive" and "Roman Maciejewski"

The Polish Composers' Union launches new websites: "POLMIC Digital Archive" and the portal dedicated to "Roman Maciejewski". The presentation of both sites (open to public) will take place on the Zoom platform on Thursday, 28 January 2021 at 2 p.m. The...

RE:NEW MUSIC in Poland

The Polish Music Information Centre organises the first RE:NEW MUSIC workshop and open rehearsal in Poland. The workshop will take place on Thursday, 17th September 2009, at 2 pm in the State Music Schools No. 1 in Warsaw (22d, Miodowa St., 'Mala...

Regamey & Regamey. Pasiecznik & Pasiecznik album awarded Album of the Year 2021 by Hi-Fi i Muzyka

In the January issue of the monthly ‘Hi-Fi i Muzyka’ a list of the Annual Awards awarded by the magazine was published. The awards go to the best CD records and playback equipment of the last twelve months. The Regamey & Regamey. Pasiecznik &...

Renewable Music. V4 Composers for Sustainability

'Renewable Music. V4 Composers for Sustainability' is an international project implemented in 2023-2025 by the Polish Composers' Union in cooperation with Berg Orchestra (Czech Republic), Waves Bratislava (Slovakia) and UMZE Association (Hungary) as...

Report on the Music Market in Poland 2008

We encourage you to get acquainted with the report on the music market in Poland, prepared by Aleksandra Jagiełło-Skupińska. The report concentrates on the music record industry, with particular emphasis on classical music. It contains data related to...

Roman Maciejewski - for two pianos - Vol. 2

As part of the „Muzyka polska dzisiaj – portrety współczesnych kompozytorów polskich” (‘Polish music today – potraits of Polish contemporary composers’) series launched in 2013, Polish Composers’ Union published another CD with Roman Maciejewski’s...

Roman Maciejewski – for two pianos

As part of the "Polish Music Today – Portraits of Contemporary Polish Composers" series, initiated in 2013, the Polish Composers' Union released three more albums last year. The first of them, containing Roman Berger's monumental Missa pro nobis, was...

Roman Maciejewski – pieces for two pianos

The project "Roman Maciejewski – pieces for two pianos" was created thanks to the support of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the "Culture on the Web" programme. It is dedicated to the promotion of Polish music and compositions...

Self-reflections of contemporary Polish composers / Presentation of Zamowieniakompozytorskie.pl

Conference The Musical Languages of Contemporary Polish Composers: Self-reflections University of Warsaw Library / Bogumił Linde Hall 66 Dobra Street, Warsaw Friday, September 25th, 10:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday, September 26th, 10:30 a.m. – 4 p.m....

Sound Chronicle of the 2019 Warsaw Autumn - on CDs and online

Delayed by the financing troubles we would like to finally present you with the next edition of the ‘Sound Chronicle of the Warsaw Autumn’. A set of the 2019 62nd Warsaw Autumn Festival recordings is published first. Despite tremendous endeavours we...

Sound Chronicle of the 2020 ‘Warsaw Autumn’ Festival now available

Still with delay - because of financing troubles with finding funds in previous years - we present to you the next, 2020 edition of the ‘Sound Chronicle of the Warsaw Autumn’. Unfortunately we did not succeed to obtain enough fundings to produce large...

Sound Chronicle of the 58th Warsaw Autumn

The Sound Chronicle of the 58th "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music, which was held between September 18th and 26th, 2015, consists of 6 CDs. Similarly to the previous issues, it contains a selection of works by Polish and...

Sound Chronicle of the 61st "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music

The Sound Chronicle of the 61st "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music, which took place in September 2018, is available on audio compact discs as a non-commercial promotional edition. The Chronicle consists of ten CDs....

The opening of the "60 Warsaw Autumns" Exhibition

The opening of the "60 Warsaw Autumns" exhibition, co-organised by the Polish Composers' Union, National Centre for Culture Poland and Institute of Music and Dance, was held in Kordegarda Gallery (Warsaw, 15/17 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street) on...

The Warsaw Proclamation of New Music Festivals

The representatives of new music festivals assembled in Warsaw during the 60th jubilee edition of the "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music, in the year of the centenary of the avant-garde in Poland inaugurated by the President...

The Winners of the “12 Minutes for Moniuszko” – International Composers’ Competition for micro-opera

The winners of the International Stanisław Moniuszko Composers’ Competition for a micro-opera entitled “12 Minutes for Moniuszko”, organized by the Polish Composers' Union and Grand Theatre – Polish National Opera, were announced during the Evening of...

Two Regameys – father and son – on the album from the "Polish Music Today" series

The last album released in 2020 by the Polish Composers' Union as part of the "Polish Music Today – Portraits of Contemporary Polish Composers" series is completely unique. Due to the special relationship and fate of both characters, the publisher made...