Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2025!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2026!

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, On the occasion of Christmas, I would like to extend to you my best wishes for health, peace, and joy. May this special time be filled with family warmth and hope for the New Year. Kamil Staszowski POLMIC Director

Message for International Music Day 2025

What a blessing it is that God gave us music! Music is a remarkable language of communication between people. The sender — the artist — clothes their often very specific thoughts and imaginings in sound, while the listener reads from those same sounds...

Michał Urbaniak passed away...

“He lived and felt in great notes. He passed away at the age of 82,” wrote Dorota Dosia Urbaniak. A jazzman, internationally renowned violinist, saxophonist, composer, arranger, discoverer of young talents, born in Poland — a true “citizen of the...

Mieczysław Kominek awarded "Gloria Artis"!

On September 4, 2025, Marta Cienkowska, Minister of Culture and National Heritage, awarded Mieczysław Kominek the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture “Gloria Artis”, in accordance with the Act on Organizing and Conducting Cultural Activities. Mieczysław...

Monographic Concert of Filip Matuszewski and World Premieres

The monographic concert of composer and pianist Filip Matuszewski will take place as part of the series "Chopin Concerts by the Graduation Tower near Frankówka" in Józefów on August 24, 2025, at 6:00 PM. The artist will give the world premiere of his...

New Board and Honorary Members of the Polish Composers' Union Announced!

The 42nd General Assembly of the Members of the Polish Composers' Union (ZKP), held on June 13–14, 2025, elected new authorities, conferred honorary memberships, introduced amendments to the Statute, and passed several resolutions. ZKP Honorary Members...

New Director of Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra

As of September 1, 2025, Wojciech Rodek begins his five-year term as Director of the Jerzy Semkow Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra. The appointment was made by Marta Cienkowska, Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Wojciech Rodek is a graduate...

Nominations for the 2025 “Coryphaeus of Polish Music” Award

On November 3, 2025, at 7:00 PM at the Warsaw Philharmonic, the winners of the 15th edition of the “Coryphaeus of Polish Music” award will be announced. The winners, selected by the music community, will receive statuettes in the following categories:...

NOSPR and Inmo Yang

Let’s immerse ourselves in symphonic music from Sibelius to Bartók during the NOSPR concert conducted by Marin Alsop on January 17, 2025, at 7:30 PM! The soloist will be South Korean violinist Inmo Yang, winner of the Jean Sibelius International Violin...

Open Call for the 4th Hashtag Ensemble PRO Academy 2026–27

Hashtag Ensemble invites artists to participate in the "PRO Academy" masterclasses - a year-long mentoring program designed for instrumentalists and conductors, including students, music academy graduates, and professional musicians active in Poland....

Opole | 34th International Music Course in Opole

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC The 34th International Music Course in Opole will take place from the 31st of July to the 11th of August, 2024. Pupils and students of violin, piano, viola, cello, double bass and chamber...

Opole | Chamber carnival: Wolańska - Gajda Duo

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC As part of the "Opole Philharmonic Chamber" series on the 26th of January, 2024 at 7 p.m., Wolańska - Gajda Duo will perform, i.e. pianist Julia Wolańska-Gajda and accordionist Michał Gajda. The...

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 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 “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...