"Józef Koffler – Lviv and European Composer": portal presentation and world premiere!

We invite you to the presentation of the new website of the Polish Composers' Union dedicated to the life and works of Józef Koffler (1896–1943?). The event will take place on March 29, 2025, at 6:00 PM at the University of Warsaw in the Prof. Jan...

"Meeting at the Composers'": Kornowicz & Mendyk

The special guest of the November edition of the "Meetings at Composers’" series at the Polish Composers' Union will be Jerzy Kornowicz. On November 29, 2024, at 6:00 PM, a meeting with him and the artists who will present his music will take place in...

"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'": Alicja Gronau and Anna Ignatowicz-Glińska

The Polish Composers' Union and the Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC invite you to the next event in the "Meetings at the Composers'" series. "Borderlands – Opportunity or Challenge?" is the theme of the meeting on October 18, 2024, at 5:00 p.m....

"Meetings with composers": KOCHA or KOHA? Where does music come from?

In the series "Meetings with composers": KOCHA or KOHA? - a tour of the new, virtual catalog of the unique collections of the ZKP Library; WHERE does MUSIC come from? - Małgorzata Kołcz will talk to Jarosław Siwiński about his work. We will combine 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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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 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...

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 –...