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The Gramophone writes this year’s 60th Wratislavia Cantans festival will feature the premiere performance of Zygmunt Krauze’s Requiem

The prestigious magazine published an article announcing the program of the anniversary edition of the festival, which has been held every September in Wroclaw for 60 years. One of the highlights this year will be the premiere of Zygmunt Krauze's “Requiem” dedicated to all the children killed in...

“Listening to each other” – Marta Konieczna for “Ruch Muzyczny” about the jubilee of Zygmunt Krauze

Listening to each other Zygmunt Krauze has a body of work that is valuable for both concert halls and art galleries. In his artistic path he often brought these spaces together, so he also had to celebrate his 85th birthday in edifices from both worlds. In Lodz,...

“There is no silence after sound” – Paweł Siechowicz for Ruch Muzyczny on Zygmunt Krauze’s Piano Concerto No. 4

There is no silence after sound The emotional content of each successive figure swells, grows immense and moves the listener more and more, only to suddenly fall silent in an unexpected general pause. This pause, however, is filled with sound. We begin to understand better that silence...

Broadcast “Now and then: Zygmunt Krauze – composer and pianist” on Deutschlandfunk

We invite you to listen to the programme "Now and then: Zygmunt Krauze - composer and pianist" at Deutschlandfunk. The programme "Jetzt und ein anderes Mal - Zygmunt Krauze - composer and pianist" hosted by Georg Beck as part of the ATELIER NEW MUSIC. Broadcast available until...

Interview with Zygmunt Krauze on Czech Radio (Český rozhlas Vltava)

Listen to an interview with Zygmunt Krauze on Czech Radio (Český rozhlas Vltava), which was made during Ostrava Days 2023. WHOLE INTERVIEW HERE

Music Brothers: Portrait of a Composer. Zygmunt Krauze on RDC Radio / Podcast available online

On October 7, 2022, RDC Radio broadcast a program featuring Zygmunt Krauze. The meeting was hosted by Karol and Tomasz Radziwonowicz. Two parts of the broadcast can be listened to online: Part I: https://www.rdc.pl/podcast/music-brothers_jvu7bcq8aJuImsqOxsCy?episode=d1K2L3F7TWUEKfGeqUlb&active_page=1 Part II: https://www.rdc.pl/podcast/music-brothers_jvu7bcq8aJuImsqOxsCy?episode=mMHs1zBqsSJSoTH74khO

The world premiere of the new opera by Zygmunt Krauze entitled “Night of the Ravens” will inaugurate the 5th Festival of the Polish Royal Opera in Warsaw

On July 2, the world premiere of the new opera by Zygmunt Krauze entitled "Night of the Ravens" will inaugurate the 5th Festival of the Polish Royal Opera in Warsaw. You will also be able to see and hear the work on the second day of the...

The 60th Jubilee of Zygmunt Krauze’s artistic work

The year 2021 is the year of Zygmunt Krauze's great Jubilee, marking 60 years since the symbolic beginning of his creative work, which took place at the National Philharmonic Hall on October 25th, 1961. October is the month in which Zygmunt Krauze's Jubilee will be celebrated particularly...

Recital and concert by Zygmunt Krauze at the Expozice nové hudby Festival in Brno, Czech Republic

During the next edition of the flagship festival of contemporary music in the Czech Republic - Expozice nové hudby - Zygmunt Krauze will present his music twice. On June 22, 2021 at 19:00 at Besední dům (Komenského náměstí 534/8, Brno), the composer-pianist will perform the recital Improvisation...

“From Zygmunt Krauze’s summer salon” on TVP KULTURA

Zygmunt Krauze's series of improvisations on classic themes: from Bach through Beethoven, Chopin to Paderewski, which appeared in social media throughout the summer, will now be presented on TVP Kultura 2, an online channel available in streaming - https://tvpstream.vod.tvp.pl/?channel_id=47093982. The next episodes will be used on October...

September premieres of new works by Zygmunt Krauze

We warmly invite you to the premieres of two new works by Zygmunt Krauze! Copernicus - Our Planet (Copernicus - Our Planet) 2 September 2020 / 6:00 pm CODES Festival of Tradition and Avant-garde Music / Lublin The concert will be available in an online streaming at...

From Zygmunt Krauze’s summer salon – anew piano classics from July

From July to September, every other Friday, the premiere episodes of the composer's improvisation cycle on classical themes will be published on Zygmunt Krauze's YouTube and Facebook channels as well as on the Polish Music Publishing House. Marcin Masecki will give a guest appearance. Zygmunt Krauze is...

Zygmunt Krauze awarded the French Critics’ Prize for the best premiere of the 2019/20 season

Paris, 22 June 2020. The French Critics Association of Theatre, Music and Dance (Syndicat de la critique théâtre, danse et musique) has awarded this year's Best Premiere of the season 2019/20 (Meilleure Création Musicale) to Zygmunt Krauze for his Piano Concerto No. 3 - "Fragments of Memory"....

CHANGE OF THE DATE OF THE PREMIERE of the work “Copernicus – Our Planet”

Due to the epidemic situation, the planned premiere on 20 May 2020 was cancelled. The organizers of the CODES Festival have set a new date for the premiere, which will take place on 2nd of September 2020 in the Concert Hall of the Lublin Philharmonic. The premiere...

A new work by Zygmunt Krauze will inaugurate the XII CODES Festival in Lublin

On 20 May 2020 in the Concert Hall of the Lublin Philharmonic we will hear the premiere work of Zygmunt Krauze "Copernicus - Our Planet/Kopernik - Nasza Planeta". The latest composition will inaugurate the XII CODES Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music. The work for six mixed...

Albums with music by Zygmunt Krauze nominated for the Fryderyk 2020 award!

The Phonographic Academy has announced nominations in ten classical music categories. The album KRAUZE, NOWAK, KUPCZAK, STAŃCZYK: Works for Rhodes Piano & Strings recorded by such great musicians as Piotr Orzechowski 'Pianohooligan' and AUKSO - Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy under the direction of Marek...

“Yemaya – Queen of the Seas” in TVP Kultura

On Sunday, January 19th, 2020, at 10.25 a.m., TVP Kultura will broadcast a recording of Zygmunt Krauze's latest opera "Yemaya - Queen of the Seas" (dir. Hanna Marasz, Wrocław Opera, dir. Adam Banaszak). "Yemaya - Queen of the Seas" is another work which joined the repertoire of...