Paris and Its Influence on the Musical Culture of the Twentieth-Century Central and Eastern Europe
6th International Conference from the 'Polish Music Abroad' series

/ 10:00
Annegret Fauser (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Forging Identities: Life as a Foreign Musician in Modernist Paris
Chair: Jolanta Guzy-Pasiak

/ 11:00
Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska Polish Composers as Members of a Diaspora of Émigré Intellectuals Centred
Around the Parisian “Kultura” Journal
Michał Ceglarek Polish Musicians in the Circle of Parisian “Kultura”: A Study of Selected Cases (Witold Małcużyński, Jan Holcman)
Olena Berehova Ukrainian Figures in Artistic Paris: The Second Wave of Ukrainian Emigration and Its Role in 20th-Century European Culture
Chair: Jolanta Guzy-Pasiak

/ 13:30
Violetta Kostka The Conceptual Frame of “Musical Interwar Paris” and its Practical Application in the Case of Tadeusz Z. Kassern
Renata Suchowiejko The Association of Young Polish Musicians in Paris. Happy 100th! (1926–2026)
Jolanta Guzy-Pasiak Jerzy Fitelberg’s Parisian Years: Exile, Artistic Networks, and Creative Maturity
Chair: Barbara Mielcarek-Krzyżanowska

/ 15:30
Maciej Kierzkowski Ewa Osińska in Paris: Pianist Mobility and Cultural Transfer between France and Poland after 1968
Cristina Eleonora Pascu Peregrinatio Academica and Cultural Transfer: Romanian Pianists at the École Normale de Musique de Paris
Sławomir Dobrzański Piano Music by Feliks Roderyk Łabuński (1892–1979). Paris as Turning Point in the Musical Evolution of the Composer
Chair: Kamilė Rupeikaitė


The papers and the panel discussion will be held in English.

The conference is organised as part of the DAINA 3 research project Polish and Lithuanian Music in Global Perspective: Migration, Diasporic Identities and Homeland, funded by the National Science Centre.
Organiser: Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences
Co-organiser: Polish Composers’ Union
Media patron: POLMIC.PL