"Meetings with Composers": Krzysztof Knittel and Michał Mendyk and book premiere

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 will discuss their work on a book from the "People of the World of Music" series...

"Baird": Author Talk with Rafał Augustyn and Barbara Literska

As part of the 68th "Warsaw Autumn" and the "Meetings with Composers" series, a meeting will be held at the headquarters of the Polish Composers’ Union (Warsaw, Rynek Starego Miasta 27) on September 21, 2025, at 3:00 PM, featuring a discussion of the...

"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...

“Meetings at the Composers" and Maria Erdman’s Concert: The Sorcerer, the Clavichord, and the Stuffed Crocodile

The Sorcerer, the Clavichord, and the Stuffed Crocodile” – one of the most intriguing editions of the “Meetings at the Composers’” series will take place in the legendary Fukier Townhouse at 27 Old Town Market Square in Warsaw. The main guests of the...

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...