The jury of the last year’s edition of the Tadeusz Ochlewski Composition Competition agreed on awarding 2 distinctions (ex-aequo) to Marcin Antkowiak and Aleksandra Słyż. The main theme of 2016 edition was a work for double bass and electronics. The...
The results of the first stage of the 60th Tadeusz Baird Young Composers Competition were announced on Fabruary 28, 2019. The Tadeusz Baird Young Composers Competition (formerly called the Youth Competition of the Polish Composers' Union) is organized...
The jury of the 4th International Composition Competition SAXandVILLAS 2025 awarded two main prizes. The first prize was not granted. The jury consisted of: Chair – Prof. Krzysztof Meyer (PL), Prof. Dr. Piet Swerts (BE), Prof. Dariusz Samól (PL), Dr....
The final concert of the 59th Tadeusz Baird Young Composers' Competition was held on June 14, 2018 at 6.00 pm at the Warsaw headquarters of the Polish Music Publishing House. The Competition Jury consisting of: Marta Ptaszyńska (chairman), Ignacy...
5th Grażyna Bacewicz International Composers Competition Łódź 2015 Organiser: Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź The results: First Prize: Manuel Martinez Burgos (Spain) Second Prize: Farangis Nurulla-Khoja (Canada) Third Prize:...
We know the results of the 5th Krzysztof Penderecki International Composer's Competition The subject of this year's Competition was a piece for string orchestra. The Competition was organized as part of the 9th NDI Sopot Classic Festival. The jury...
The final concert of the 60th Tadeusz Baird Young Composers' Competition, held on 25 June 2019, featured works qualified to the 2nd stage of the competition. The results were announced after the concert. Among the presented works were: Magic Squares...
On the 16th of April, 2023, as part of the 7th International Festival of Piano Duos ‘Duettissimo!’ the final concert of the 64th Tadeusz Baird Composers' Competition took place, during which the verdict of the jury was announced. Main Prize and a...
On June 13, 2025, the final concert of the 66th Competition took place. The jury awarded one Grand Prize and one honorable mention. After listening to the concert presenting the works selected for the second stage, the Jury decided to award the Tadeusz...
On October 6, 2024, during the Winners' Concert of the 6th Karol Lipiński International Violin Competition held at the CKK Jordanki Concert Hall in Toruń, the main and special prizes were awarded. First Prize of €15,000 went to Sunjae Ok (South Korea);...
On September 24, 2024, the Jury of the AkoPoznań Composition Competition convened and awarded two second prizes ex aequo, as well as two honorable mentions. The jury, consisting of: Prof. Janusz Stalmierski, PhD (Chair), Prof. Jerzy Kaszuba, PhD, Prof....
On the 21st of March, 2023, an online meeting of the Jury of the Fr. Prof. Hieronim Feicht competition took place. The jury decided to award this year the Prize and a distinction. The awarding of diplomas to the two laureates will take place during the...
The results of the first stage of the 62nd Tadeusz Baird Young Composers Competition were announced on 27 February 2021. The Jury composed of: Olga Hans (chairwoman), Aldona Nawrocka (secretary), Marcin Bortnowski, Justyna Kowalska-Lasoń, and Artur...
On the 14th of February 2022 the jury of the first stage of the 63rd Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers admitted 5 compositions to the second stage of the Competition. Jury: Agata Zubel (chairman) Krzysztof Baculewski, Katarzyna...
On the 3rd of February, 2023, the first stage of the 64th Tadeusz Baird Young Composers' Competition, organized by the Polish Composers' Union was completed. The jury, composed of: Bartłomiej Kominek (chairman), Maciej Negrey, Dariusz Przybylski,...
On the 13th of February, 2024, the results of the first stage of the 65th Tadeusz Baird Young Composers' Competition were announced. The jury composed of: Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil (chairman), Alicja Gronau, Rafał Kłoczko, Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz...
On 21 January 2020 the first stage of the Tadeusz Baird Young Composers Competition has been settled. The Jury composed of: Alicja Gronau (chairwoman), Marcel Chyrzyński, Paweł Gusnar, Monika Kędziora and Aldona Nawrocka, selected the following works to...
On March 14, 2025, the jury meeting of the competition organized by the Section of Musicologists of the Polish Composers' Union took place. Jury consisted of: Prof. Iwona Lindstedt (chair), Dr. Agnieszka Leszczyńska, Prof. Teresa Malecka, Dr. Katarzyna...
The Polish Chamber Musicians’ Association, as the publisher of the quarterly Notatnik Pianistyczny, has announced the results of the “Chopin Inspirations” composition competition, for a piano miniature inspired by the works (waltzes or mazurkas) of...
Jury of the Witold Maliszewski National Composition Competition, consisting of: Paweł Łukaszewski – Chair, Sławomir Czarnecki, and Piotr Komorowski, after reviewing the submitted scores, awarded the following three prizes: 1st Prize – Wojciech Chałupka...
The results of the YMFE-Scholarship Competition in the "string instruments" category were announced on February 8, 2016. The event was hosted by the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. The scholarships were granted to: - Amelia Maszońska...
The Musicologists’ Section of the Polish Composers’ Union invites submissions for the 2025 Rev. Professor Hieronim Feicht Award Competition. The deadline for applications is October 31. The organizers kindly ask that entries be submitted exclusively in...
Reverend Professor Ireneusz Pawlak, musicologist, composer, teacher, expert in Gregorian chant associated with the Catholic University of Lublin, died on 15 July 2020 in Lubartów. In the years 1989-2017 he was the vice-president of the Lublin Branch of...
The Association of Polish Chamber Musicians invites you to the concert series "Reymont in the Estates of Subcarpathia" from May 31 to June 17, 2025, commemorating the work of Władysław Reymont on the centenary of his receiving the Nobel Prize for his...
Polish ethnologist, choreologist and dance anthropologist Roderyk Lange died at the age of 87 on March 16, 2017. He obtained his PhD in ethnology in 1975 and a habilitation in 1977. A long-time collaborator of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań,...
Composer, pianist and theoretician of music Roman Berger, honorary member of the Polish Composers' Union, died on 22 December 2020 in Bratislava. From 1949 he studied theory with Jan Gawlas and piano with Marta Gabryś-Furmanik at the State Higher...
The winner of the 2025 "Piesomen Antropon" Composition Competition, organized by the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Pomeranian Philharmonic, is Dr. Roman Czura, a lecturer at the Katowice Academy of Music and a member of the Polish Composers' Union! The jury,...
The latest orchestral piece by the Silesian composer Roman Czura, Rytmy w śnie zatopione [Rhythms drowned in dreams], was awarded the 3rd prize in the final of the second edition of the Future Symphony Composition Competition in Vilnius. The final...
Lutosławski Piano Duo (Emilia Sitarz and Bartłomiej Wąsik) will perform compositions by Roman Maciejewski on March 30, 2016 in the Warsaw Rising Museum. Maciejewski's style blends neoclassicism with folk influences and bears traces of his fascination...
Newly released CD Roman Palester. Piano and Chamber Music and a website dedicated to Roman Palester (lauched in September 2016 by Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC) will be presented during the promotional meeting and concert held on December 2,...
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