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Premiere of the monographic album with Jakub Polaczyk's music

Union Square - the first monographic album by composer Jakub Polaczyk, who celebrates his 40th birthday this year, will be released in the USA by Albany Records (TROY1926). The premiere of the album will take place on the 1st of March, 2023 on Radio...

Premiere of the newest album of the Poznań Vocal Ensemble Minimus

On 4 September 2020 the album titled Wacław Reimagined by the Poznań-based Minimus Vocal Ensemble will have its premiere. It will include contemporary choral compositions inspired by the works of Wacław z Szamotuł. The core focus of the album is the...

Premiere of the opera "Ajde" by Monika Kozakiewicz in Katowice

On May 16, 2025, at 7:00 p.m., the premiere of the opera Ajde by Monika Kozakiewicz—a fifth-year composition student in the class of Professor Aleksander Nowak—will take place in the Concert Hall of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice....

Premiere of the Opera "The Countess" at the 3rd Moniuszko Festival

The main event of the 3rd Moniuszko Festival, organized by the Grand Theatre in Poznań as part of its jubilee 2025/2026 season, will be the premiere of the opera The Countess (Hrabina) by Stanisław Moniuszko, directed by Karolina Sofulak. Performances...

Premiere of the performance "Fuga" at the National Forum of Music

The music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Artur Zagajewski is experienced not only through hearing but also through the body, gesture, and breath. Four dancers — Stanisław Bulder, Olga Bury, Radosław Lis, and Gieorgij Puchalski — together with Janusz...

Premiere of the two-CD album "Weinberg: Songs for no-one"

The two-CD album Weinberg: Songs for no-one (NFPMA 99161/2) is the culmination of many years of work by singer Tomasz Raff, whose aim was to record all of Mieczyslaw Wajnberg's songs for bass voice with piano. Thus, containing the phonographic...

Presentation of a new website dedicated to Roman Palester

A newly launched website dedicated to composer Roman Palester will be officially presented at the Bogumił Linde Hall in University of Warsaw Library (55/66 Dobra Str.) on September 16, 2016 a 4.00 pm. Roman Palester’s music is virtually absent from...

Prix des Muses 2016 for Paweł Gancarczyk

Paweł Gancarczyk’s book La musique et la révolution de l’imprimerie received the Prix des Muses award. The award is given each year by the Fondation Singer-Polignac for the best French-language book devoted to music. 61 books published in 2015 by 26...

Prize-winners of the Wieniawski Competition perform in Gdańsk

Polish Baltic Philharmonic will host a concert of prize-winners of the 15th International Henryk Wienawski Competition on November 4, 2016. The programme includes 3 violin concertos interpreted by 3 laureates of this year’s Competition – Veriko...

Prizes awarded by the Polish Composers' Union in 2026

The Board of the Polish Composers' Union awarded two prizes for the promotion of Polish contemporary music and a prize in the field of education for 2026. Professor Andrzej Wróbel received the prize for the promotion of Polish contemporary music,...

Prof. Danuta Szlagowska has died at 72

Prof. dr hab. Danuta Szlagowska, a scholar with great knowledge and passion, a member of the Polish Composers' Union, died on 13 March 2018. The outstanding musicologist taught at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk since 1976 at the Department of...

Prof. Jerzy Katlewicz dies at the age of 88

Conductor and professor Jerzy Katlewicz, director of the Philharmonic in Krakow in the years 1968 - 1980, died on November 16 at the age of 88. He made his debut in 1952. Since the very beginning of his career he had been cooperating with the...

Prof. Mieczysław Tomaszewski celebrates his 95th birthday

A special meeting marking Prof. Mieczysław Tomaszewski's 95th birthday will be held on December 12, 2016 at 5.00 pm at Kinoteka Cinema in Warsaw. Professor Tomaszewski is a Polish musicologist and editor of numerous series. He has held research and...

Professor Hieronim Feicht Awards for 2018 granted!

On 20th February 2019, the Jury of the Professor Hieronim Feicht Competition, composed of: dr hab. Paweł Gancarczyk, prof. IS PAN (chairman), dr hab. Katarzyna Dadak-Kozicka, prof. FCUM, prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Skowron, prof. dr hab. Małgorzata...

Professor Hieronim Feicht Prize Competition 2024

The Musicologists' Section of the Polish Composers' Union announces call for applications for the 2024 Professor Hieronim Feicht Prize Competition. The deadline for submissions is October 31st, and they are to be made electronically. The competition...

Professor Maria Przychodzińska has passed away

Maria Przychodzińska, outstanding professor in the field of music education, passed away on 14 September 2019. Funeral ceremonies will take place on Friday, 20 September, at 1 p.n. at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw. Professor Maria...

Professor Mieczysław Tomaszewski died at 97

With deep sorrow we received the news about the death of Professor Mieczysław Tomaszewski. He died on January 14, 2019 in Krakow, at the age of 97. A member of the Polish Composers' Union since 1962, in 1997 honored with the highest distinction:...

proMODERN Concert Cocktail (live on YouTube)

The proMODERN Contemporary Vocal Sextext has prepared a video surprise – an e-concert to watch on YouTube live on three different dates: 3 April 2020 at 9.00 p.m., 4 April at 12.00 p.m. and 5 April at 6.00 p.m. During this special time proMODERN brings...

Przemysław Scheller won the New Note 2020 competition

Przemysław Scheller is the winner of the 9th International Composers Competition New Note 2020 in Samobor (Croatia). His composition The Little Match Girl for string orchestra was selected as the best of the 30 submitted works from around the world....

Przesłuchanie do zespołu Orkiestry Opery Bałtyckiej - obój

Opera Bałtycka zaprasza na przesłuchanie do zespołu Orkiestry na stanowisko: obój – I głos „na zastępstwo”. W dniu 27 października 2015 roku o godzinie 10.00 w Operze Bałtyckiej w Gdańsku (al. Zwycięstwa 15) odbędzie się przesłuchanie kandydatów do...

Publications from POLMIC

The Polish Music Information Centre offers the Polish Composer’s Union’s publications to all the interested persons and institutions. These include: the proceedings of musicological sessions, LPs with “The Sound Chronicle of the Warsaw Autumn”,...

Quo Vadis op. 30 by Feliks Nowowiejski

Warmia and Mazury Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir will perform oratorio Quo Vadis by Feliks Nowowiejski on August 28, 2016 in St. Anne’s and St. Stephen’s Church in Barczewo (composer’s hometown). The work, written in 1903, is based on a storyline...
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