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Music Polish-Ukrainian Duo Revives Klezmer in Vienna
World/Vienna, 24.05.2012From happy trilling to melancholic sobbing, Klezmer Reloaded’s music expresses a whole palette of...
Music Maja Kleczewska Directs The Oresteia with Music by Agata Zubel
Poland/Warszawa, 14.04.2012 - 31.05.2012Modern, sophisticated, exploring extreme, emotional states, the Polish treatment of the raw and...
Music London Uncovers Szymanowski's Musical Genius in 2012
The composer was born in 1882 and died on the 29th of March, 1937 in Lausanne. "Can it really be...
Music Poland at Jazz Rally in Düsseldorf
World/Düsseldorf , 26.05.2012Germany's biggest open air jazz festival hosts jazz vocalist Aga Zaryan & European Jazz Quartet, along with the young musicians of the Bednarska Jazz Ensemble in a concert full of...
Film Corso Polonia Takes Polish Art to Italy
Rome, 10.05.2012 - 07.06.2012This year’s tenth edition of the annual Corso Polonia Festival celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Polish Institute in Rome with a wide variety of events in various genres. The...
Music Zakopower in the UK - Contemporary Folk on Tour
World, 09.05.2012 - 04.06.2012Following their very successful London debut in 2010 at the Southbank Centre Polish contemporary folk band Zakopower are returning to the British Isles with an extended tour....
Music Poland Returns to the Great Escape in 2012
World, 10.05.2012 - 12.05.2012Don't Panic We're from Poland is back at the Brighton festival with a musical showcase of concerts from electro pop star Novika & The Lovefinders, neo-folk band Paula & Karol and...
Music Sinfonia Varsovia Takes La Folle Journée to Tokyo
Tokyo, 03.05.2012 - 07.05.2012The Polish ensemble sets off on a Japanese tour with a series of festival concerts hosted by the Tokyo International Forum, offering a variety of Russian classical music and a...
Music London Symphony Orchestra Tours with Szymanowski
World/London, 29.04.2012 - 08.05.2012One of the world’s leading ensembles performs two compositions written by the Polish musician nearly a century ago. The LSO begins its tournee with a concert at London’s Barbican...
Music Polish Music Jazzes up Germany at Klopsztanga
Dortmund, 26.04.2012 - 18.05.2012As part of the cultural programme Klopsztanga 2012 promoting Polish culture across Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia, three leading Polish Jazz musicians Tomasz Stańko, Marcin...
Music Polish Producer Jimek Creates Winning Track for Latest Beyoncé Album
Los Angeles, 18.04.2012Polish composer and producer Jimek (Radzimir Dębski) has won pop star Beyoncé's worldwide competition for the best remix of songs from her 2011 album End of Time.
Music I, Culture Orchestra’s New Conductor
14.04.2012 - 21.04.2012With the end of the first stage of auditions for the 2012 ensemble of the I, Culture Orchestra, young Venezuelan Maestro Ilyich Rivas emerges as its new conductor.
Music Cologne's Trinitatiskirche Resonates with Polish Music
World/Cologne, 15.04.2012The acclaimed German Concerto Köln ensemble performs the baroque compositions by Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki and two pieces by Krzysztof Penderecki in Koln’s Trinitatiskirche
Music Piotr Anderszewski's Double Win at the 2012 BBC Music Magazine Awards
World/London, 12.04.2012The Polish-Hungarian composer received the award for Best Instrumental Disc in magazine's public vote, as well as the main Jury Prize for Recording of the Year for his live...
Music Meccorre String Quartet Wins 2nd Prize at Wigmore Hall Competition
London, 01.04.2012Only 3 quartets were qualified for the Competition’s Final, which took place on the 1st of April, 2012. Poland's Meccorre String Quartet was among the selected three ensembles, and...
Music Jagoda Krzemińska –Young Musician of the Year and Eurovision Contestant in 2012
Poland/Warszawa, 04.04.2012The success of Jagoda Krzeminska may be considered as some sort of surprise. Her competitors have chosen a very spectacular works, while she - the subtle 'Concertino' by French...
Music Royal String Quartet in Korea
World, 10.04.2012 - 12.04.2012One of Poland's top string quartets performs three concerts this month in Seoul as part of The World of Chopin series, with a repertoire of works by Chopin, Mozart, Debussy and...
Music Misteria Paschalia for the Holidays in 2012
Poland/Kraków, 02.04.2012 - 09.04.2012The 9th edition of the festival hosts a roster of masters in period music performance, including Vivica Genaux, Julia Lezhneva and Magnus Staveland, celebrating the great holy...
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Music Paula & Karol
Warsaw-based neo-folk band established in 2009 by Candadian-born Paula Bialska and Polish-born Karol...
Music Igor Boxx (Igor Pudło)
Alternative musician and composer working in dub and electronic music. Founder of the solo project...
Music Krzesimir Dębski
Composer, jazz violinist, pianist, conductor, song writer, arranger born on the 26th of October 1953...
Music Jazzpospolita - Impulse
Impulse, released in February 2012, is a set of freely improvised, harmonically and rhythmically...
Music Mieczysław Weinberg. Symphonies no 1 & 7
These works are among the most outstanding neoclassical symphonic pieces of the 20th century. Along...
