18 Oct 2026: Paderewski Lecture-Recital Celebrates Stojowski
This year’s Paderewski Lecture-Recital honors the 80th death anniversary of Zygmunt Stojowski (1870-1946)—composer, pianist and pedagogue. Stojowski was not only a close colleague and friend of Paderewski, he co-founded what would become the prestigious Juilliard School of Music in New York and helped shape the careers of some the great pianists of the next generation. The Zygmunt and Luisa Stojowski Collection, which was gifted to the Polish Music Center in 2005, will serve as the basis of this exploration of a fascinating figure of the early 20th century who is often forgotten today.
Special guests for this concert are the Cracow Duo—Marek Szlezer, piano and Jan Kalinowski, cello (right)—both professors at the prestigious Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow, Poland. The Cracow Duo will share the stage with a select quartet of USC Thornton students: Nathan Nguyen and Guy Grisham, violins, Poppy Yu, viola and Ana Miculinić, cello.
The evening’s program will be a monographic concert of works from throughout the long career of Zygmunt Stojowski, including Romance sans paroles (ca. 1886) for piano and cello, Variations et Fugue pour deux Violons, Alto et Violoncelle, Op. 6 (1890) for string quartet, and Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 18 (1895). The performances will be interspersed with scholarly insight from Szlezer and Kalinowski, who have extensively researched and written about the composer, as well as musical examples from some of Stojowski’s large scale works for orchestra.
Please RSVP below to join us!
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2026 | 7:00 P.M.
2026 Paderewski Lecture-Recital: Celebrating Zygmunt Stojowski
Venue: USC Newman Recital Hall – 3616 Trousdale Pkwy, L.A., CA 90089
Parking: USC McCarthy Way Structure – 3499 S Figueroa St. ($4-$20: text MCCY to 25023 for parking payment)
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FREE admission, RSVP Below
Reception in Herklotz Courtyard to follow the lecture-recital
* If you require mobility assistance between parking and venue, or any other accommodations for this event, please contact the Polish Music Center at 213-764-4977 or polmusic@usc.edu. Every reasonable effort will be made to provide accommodations in an effective and timely manner. or any other accommodations, please call 213-764-4977
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