Press conference on the occasion of republishing "The Chopin Yearbook" ("Rocznik Chopinowski") and issue of volume 26 by the Fryderick Chopin Society will be held on November 29, 2018 at 5.00 in the Ballroom of the Tyszkiewicz-Potocki Palace at 32 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street in Warsaw.

The organizers of the event are: the Frederic Chopin Society and the Institute of Musicology at the University of Warsaw. The Frederic Chopin Society (founded in 1934) in the years 1956-2001 published 25 volumes of "The Chopin Yearbook", after which this activity was suspended. The editors of the "Yearbook" were outstanding musicologists and pianists, including Józef Michał Chomiński, Zbigniew Drzewiecki, Jan Ekier, Kazimierz Sikorski, Zygmunt Mycielski. The aim of the "Yearbook" is to present the state of research and the latest trends in contemporary Chopin studies in Poland and the world.

Volume 26 was issued thanks to the financial support of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the National Institute of Polish Cultural Heritage Abroad "Polonika". After the official part, Thomas Prat (France) will perform a piano recital filled with Fryderyk Chopin's works. Admission free!