Polish Music Information Centre (POLMIC)
Poland
Member since:
1998
Website
CEO
Mieczysław Kominek
Address
Rynek Starego Miasta 27,
00-272 Warsaw, Poland
Services
Introduction
POLMIC was set up in 2001, using as its foundation the Library of the Polish Composers’ Union – Polish Contemporary Music Documentation Centre. For more than fifty years prior to POLMIC’s establishment, the latter institution had collected books, scores and records as well as information about contemporary Polish composers and their output. POLMIC continues all the forms of the Library’s earlier activity while at the same time extending them so as to include modern ways of operation, suited to the ever-changing needs of the present-day world.
About
POLMIC serves as a resource center for Polish music, with a particular focus on contemporary music. Its core operations revolve around a scientific library and the first-ever web service dedicated to Polish classical music, primarily from the 20th and 21st centuries. POLMIC administers the resources of the Polish Composers’ Union and is managed in cooperation with the National Institute of Music and Dance.
Photo: Valentyn Chernetskyi
Services
The main goals of POLMIC:
- maintaining Poland’s largest database on contemporary Polish composers and their works, “New Polish Music”, available online;
- creating the Online Music Encyclopedia dedicated to Polish composers, musicologists, performers, and cultural animators – the first Polish music encyclopedia available on the Internet;
- collecting digitized materials about music and musicians in the POLMIC Digital Archive – the first digital archive dedicated to contemporary Polish music;
- promoting Polish music by organizing concerts both in Poland and abroad;
- acting as a media patron for the most significant events showcasing contemporary music;
- creating monographic websites dedicated to composers and musicologists;
- publishing albums – including the “Sound Chronicle of the Warsaw Autumn” and monographic albums within the “Polish Music Today – Portraits of Contemporary Polish Composers” series – as well as books, which are distributed worldwide.
Have a look at the POLMIC website to view all information they have to offer about Polish music life.
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Insights into our work
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