Polish Music Center USC

06/25/2025

The Paderewski Festival in Paso Robles announces the Summer 2025 Cultural Exchange Program! This year, the festival will send two students -winners of the annual Youth Piano Competition in Paso Robles- to on all-expanses paid study visit to Poland! Congratulations to this year’s participants: Ellen Butler (17) and Sela Yarbrough (16) 👏

More info: https://tinyurl.com/34mzsayp

06/24/2025

🎹 Piano Recital in Gorlice 🇵🇱

On July 6, at 5:00 PM local time in Poland, Ellen Butler and Sela Yarbrough will perform a piano recital at the Galeria Stuki Dwór Karwacjanów. This recital organized in collaboration with the Muzeum Dwory Karwacjanow i Gladyszow is a part of the Paderewski Festival Youth Cultural Exchange program.

Mark your calendars and be there with us!

05/09/2025

If you are in the San Diego area, make sure to stop by the Balboa Park on Saturday, May 10th to witness a unique opera! Polish composer, Wojtek Blecharz transforms the park into a stage and invites you to be part od the magic. Experience this free, immersive event where music and movement unfold all around you. The event starts at 4:00 PM and ends at 7:00 PM.

Note: to fully experience this work, bring your own headphones and a smartphone.

04/15/2025

Today, pianist Aron Kallay will perform a concert in Los Angeles titled Friends and Family. The program includes two new commissions including the World Premiere of Marek Zebrowski’s “Capriccio notturno.” Also on the program is “Analysis of a Dream” by Daniel Allas, written in memory of pianist and composer, Sarah Gibson.

When and Where?
🗓️Tuesday, April 15, 8:00 PM
📍 Thater Hall at the Colburn School
200 S Grand Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90012
🎟️Tickets: $15.75 - $25.75

Tickets available here: https://tinyurl.com/5atkkfma

03/13/2025

Congratulations to Kinga Głowacka for becoming one of the 2025/26 Dudamel Fellows with the LA Philharmonic! 👏 PMC welcomes Kinga to Los Angeles. She will work here alongside Gustavo Dudamel and musicians of the LA Philharmonic. It’s a great opportunity for Kinga to work with world-class musicians. We can’t wait to see her shine on the LA stage and beyond!

02/25/2025

The Zarębski Piano Duo has visited our center today! Have you ever had a chance to hear them play? They are phenomenal!

On March 1 they will perform a concert at the Santa Monica Public Library. The repertoire consists exclusively of Polish Music performed on 4-hands piano. Check out more information below:

🗓️ March 1, 3:00 PM
📍 Location: Santa Monica Public Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90401
🎟️ FREE ADMISSION 🎶

More information: https://tinyurl.com/ba7z6ur4

02/21/2025

Save the date! 🗓️

Join us on March 29 at 4:00 PM for our 2025 PMC Spring Concert! This time, you’ll have a chance to hear the spectacular AKA Duo from Japan. They’ll perform for us music by Magin, Paderewski, Tansman and Weinberg.

🎶FREE ADMISSION 🎶
🎶RSVP REQUIRED🎶

RSVP & learn more details at https://tinyurl.com/44ex2862 (link in bio)

📍 Location: USC Newman Recital Hall - 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles

USC Thornton School of Music Narodowy Instytut Muzyki i Tańca

02/12/2025

Polish composers Agata Zubel, Ewa Trębacz, and Marek Chołoniewski will be featured tomorrow in a concert in Seattle dedicated to electroacoustic music.

Event Details:
Date & Time: February 14, 8:00 PM
Location: Raisbeck Auditorium at Cornish College of the Arts.
Address: 2017 Boren, Ave., Seattle, WA 9812
Tickets: $10-$25

01/28/2025

David Lynch will be greatly missed by all of us. He was not only a great filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor, but also a wonderful friend. Our PMC director, Marek Zebrowski, shares a reflection on his 25 years of friendship with David Lynch and his connection to Polish music.

Read full article: https://tinyurl.com/etx5dwrd

01/23/2025

🎖 Pod koniec zeszłego roku, decyzją Wojewody Wielkopolskiej Agata Sobczyk, wyróżniony medalem im. Witolda Celichowskiego został Marek Żebrowski - Dyrektor Polish Music Center USC w Los Angeles.

🎼 Medal wręczono za wybitne zasługi w propagowaniu i upowszechnianiu polskiej kultury za granicą oraz osiągnięcia w pracy artystycznej, twórczej i badawczej.

🎹 Pan Marek, oprócz pracy w Polish Music Center, współpracuje m.in. z Akademia Muzyczna im. Ignacego Jana Paderewskiego w Poznaniu, wielokrotnie odwiedzając miasto i udzielając okazjonalnych wykładów lub recitali. Propagator historii i dorobku kulturowego Wielkopolanek i Wielkopolan.

01/23/2025

Musician and documentarian, Maya Baczynska, dedicated this beautiful piece to the city of Los Angeles.

Maja [Maya] Baczyńska impro: voices, looper/ music & home audio, home video"L.A. 2025" for City of Angels, dedicated to Los Angeles County on fire...My memor...

01/22/2025

Congratulations Marek 👏! Our director of the USC Polish Music Center, Marek Zebrowski, receives the prestigious Witold Celichowski Medal by the decision of the Voivode of Greater Poland, Agata Sobczyk. Medal of The Witold Celichowski Award - the first Voivode of Poznan after regaining independence - was awarded to Marek for promoting Polish culture abroad and for his outstanding artistic and research achievements.