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2008
WARSAW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA - Tchaikovsky/Dvorak/Beethoven
THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT - BFI Southbank special release
PENDERECKI Symphony No. 8 - UK premiere by BBC Symphonic Orchestra
MATEUSZ KOLAKOWSKI - Polish Jazz sensation in London!
EWA PODLES at WIGMORE HALL - Acclaimed Contralto sings Chopin, Szymanowski and more...
POLISH THE DANCEFLOOR - Saturday January @ Gramaphone
Penderecki: Capriccio, De Natura Sonoris II, Piano Concerto I - Polish 2008 Midem Classical Awards Winner
Trinity College of Music String Orchestra presents - WSPOMNIENIA - PLEASANT MEMORIES OF POLISH MUSIC
LUKASZEWSKI: Via Crucis & Concertino for Piano and Brass - UK Premiere Tour by BRITTEN SINFONIA
LUTOSLAWSKI - performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra
MUSIC IN EXILE: POLES APART - Alexander Tansman & Mieczyslaw Weinberg
BACEWICZ at Cadogan Hall - New London Orchestra
PENDERECKI SYMPHONY No. 8 and other Works - now available on CD
PLEASE NOTE: INGRID FLITER replaces ANDERSZEWSKI - In concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
THE BEST POLISH SONGS... EVER! - * * * * - Observer Music Monthly
ROXANNA PANUFNIK: WESTMINSTER MASS - The London Oratory Schola
KROL ROGER - at Edinburgh International Festival 08
ANDRZEJ BAUER & MACIEJ GRZYBOWSKI at SOUNDS NEW FESTIVAL - Electric Cello, Cello & DJ and Piano Concerts
POLISH THEDANCEFLOOR SPECIAL - Piotr Bejnar, Sssixa, Gigi, System Of Survival
SAINT REMEMBERED at WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL - Roxana Panufnik
LSO Discovery Family Concert - PAWEL KOTLA conducts the LSO
ERNEST READ SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA plays WOJCIECH KILAR -
KRYSTIAN ZIMERMAN - plays Szymanowski, Bach, Brahms and Beethoven
NIGEL KENNEDY QUINTET at the BBC Late Night Proms - Kennedy plays with his fine Polish Jazz ensemble
POLISH BANDS @ GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL - Aleks and the Drummer, FlyKKiller & The Car is on Fire
AFFABRE CONCINUI AT THE FRINGE - Polish Chamber Singers

2007
WRATISLAVIA CANTANS - 42nd Internation Festival
POISE RITE -
POISE RITE - PasagaliaTour
POLISH THE DANCEFLOOR - SLG live!
PANUFNIK - Tampere Symphonic Orchestra / Storgards
GRZEGORZ NOWAK & ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA - Beethoven / Bruch / Mendelssohn
SILESIAN QUARTET - The Szymanowski Tour
KULT - supported by Poise Rite
EVVA MIZERSKA - Junior Fellows Recital Series
PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI - The piano sensation in rare London appearance!
SILESIAN DANCE THEATRE - To See the World in a Grain of Sand
POLAND ST. UNDERGROUND - FREE 3D Animation / Games / Art / Live Music / Books / Art / Fashion
L'ELISIR D'AMORE - starring Alexandra Kurzak
MARCIN MASECKI - at Baltic London Jazz Festival
THE PIANIST - Wladyslaw Szpilman / Chopin & Peter Guinness
KOMBII - in concert in London.
SZYMANOWSKI: STRING QUARTETS Nos 1 & 2 - Schoenberg Quartet
ZBIGNIEW PREISNER: SILENCE, NIGHT & DREAMS - With the LSO & special guest Teresa Salgueiro
CANDLELIT CHRISTMAS CONCERT -
POLISH THE DANCEFLOOR -
Peter and the Wolf - Live music performed by Opera North
Andrzej Panufnik - Panufnik’s post-war reconstructions of early Polish music
Polish Contemporary Music for Cello, concert 2 - Evva Mizerska: cello, St. Alfege's Church, Greenwich, London
Polish Contemporary Music for Cello, concert 1 - Evva Mizerska: cello, Trinity College of Music, Greenwich,London
Bacewicz Concert performed by Chelsea Simfonia at the Birds Eye View Film Festival
Maciek Malenczuk and Jacek Kulesza Tro at the Telegraph, Brixton, London
Lutoslawski at the Royal Festival Court, South Bank, London
The Royal String Quartet, Cadogan Hall, London
Habakuk UK Tour, various locations
Lutoslawski's Grave (Metamorphoses) by Ralph Kishbaum & Peter Jablonski, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Hey - concert, Scala, Pentoville Road, London
Magdalena Zuk - concert,St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Lukas Jakobczyk - concert, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Irmina Tynkos - concert, St Martin in the Fields, London


2006

SZYMANOWSKI: Complete Mazurkas - Anna Kijanowska
BRAHMS piano concerto No 1 - Krystian Zimerman
HAYDN, BACEWICZ, DVORAK - Szymanowski Quartet
Stanislaw Drzewiecki - a piano recital. Polish Insitute, Sikorski Museum, London
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz - violin concerto. St John's, Smith Square, London
Tomasz Lis at Cripplegate Song Festival, St. Giles Church, London
RNCM Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Ewa Strusinska, Haden Freeman Concert Hall, Manchester
Marek Ruszczynski recital
, Jack Samuel Pianos, Edgware Road, London
Andrzej Panufnik concert by City Side Sinfonia, St. Stephen's Church, London
Tomasz Lis at St. John's Smith Square, London
Dark & Light Zone Marek Choloniecki, pioneering electro-acustic composer, London performance
Patrice Jegou & Anna Rutkowska-Schock at the Regent Hall, London
Warsaw Village Band at the Spitz, London
Piotr Anderszewski as part of Mostly Mozart 2006, Barbican, London
Tomasz Lis & Flo Quartet at the Barbican Hall, London
Trio - UK Tour
Polish Music Throughout The Centuries - free public lectures, Gresham College, London
Anna Maria Stanczyk - a piano rectital at St John's Smith Square, London
Anna Maria Jopek - concert at Fairfields Hall, Croydon
Piotr Anderszewski performs Bartok - concert at the Barbican Hall, London
Lech Janerka - concert at The Garage, Highbury, London
Maciej Malenczuk - concert at The Rhytm Factory, Whitechapel Road, London
Warsaw Village Band UK Tour
Ewa Kupiec - a piano recital, Quenn Elizabeth Hall, London
Piotr Anderszewski joins the Scottish Chamber Orchestra


2005
Tomasz Stanko Quartet at the London Jazz Festival, Barbican Centre, London
The Silesian Guitar Octet - UK Tour
Szymanowski Festival
at the Wigmore Hall, London
The Royal String Quartet - a concert at the Wigmore Hall, London and at the Fawley Court Museum, Henley-on-Thames
Krystian Zimerman - a piano recital at the Royal Festival Hall, London
Tolhaje and DJ Kasia at the Puls Festival, Cargo Club and Play Club, London
Piotr Anderszewski - a piano recital at theQueen Elizabeth Hall, London
Homage to Szymon Laks a piano recital by Jaqueline Cole at the Wigmore Hall, London

2004
The Royal String Quartet - concerts at the Wigmore Hall, London
Jarmila Xymena Gorna
- an album launch at the Spitz and the Ray's Jazz at Foyles, London
The Warsaw Village Band
- UK Tour
Yarehma Group from Cracow
at the Diaspora Music Village Festival in the Regent's Park and the Kew Gardens, London
Lukasz Kuropaczewski - a guitar recital at the South Bank Centre, London
Krystian Zimerman
- a piano recital at the Royal Festival Hall, London
Chopin and Friends
- Nina Kuzma-Sapiejewska, Monika Sawa at St. Paul's Church, London
Tomasz Lis
- a recital at St. John's Smith Square, London
Polish National Opera: Straszny dwor, Krol Roger, Ubu Rex
at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
Marek Stryszowski's Little Egoist at the Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London
Tomasz Stanko Quartet - UK Tour
Warsaw Concerto by Wally Fields Jazz Orchestra at the South Bank Centre, London

2003
Cracow Klezmer Band - a concert at The Spitz, London
A Chopin Lecture-Recital by Angela Lear at the Royal Academy of Music, London
Kazimierz Dawidek and Hanna Holeksa - a recital at St. John's Smith Square, London
Anna Maria Stanczyk - a piano recital at St. John's Smith Square, London
Andrzej Mokry - a recital at the South Bank Centre, London

2002 Tomasz Stanko Quartet at London Jazz Festival - South Bank Centre, London
My Blue - a concert of Jewish songs by Andre Ochodlo and the Atelier Klezmer Band at the Old House, Kidderpore Avenue, London
Verbum Nobile by Stanislaw Moniuszko - a production by Opera Omnibus at the Millennium Hall, Liphook, Hampshire
The Cormorants (Kormorany) - concert at Notting Hill Arts Club, London
Anna Maria Stanczyk - a piano recital at the South Bank Centre, London
Tomasz Strahl and Krzysztof Jablonski - a concert at St. John's Smith Square, London
Akademos - a female quartert - a concert at the Conway Hall, London

2001
Polish-Lithuanian Celebration - a concert by Zivile Karkauskaite with the MultiCamerata Ensemble at Conway Hall, London (part of the History in Focus season)
Tomasz Lis - a piano recital at the Polish Embassy, London
Krystian Zimerman - piano recitals (June, October) at the Royal Festival Hall, London
A concert of Baroque music by Vivaldi, Rameau and Handel - at the Polish Embassy

2000

Leszek Mozdzer + Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble - at the South Bank Centre, Lodnon
Nahorny Ensemble in Edinburgh