Highlights from the past seasons

• Poetry and Music - 70th anniversary of start of World War II September 1, 2009 at 7pm St Hyacinth Basilica 3636 W. Wolfram Ave. Chicago, IL 60618 When Nazi German forces launched an attack on Poland on September 1, 1939, it marked the start of the most widespread war in history. By the time the guns finally fell silent in the Pacific six years later, World War II had claimed more than 55 million lives.

  
  

• Los Desperados 'One of the most exciting 'discoveries' in many a year. Technical perfection, unearthly vitality, superb sound, exceptional arrangements, unbelievably brilliant. Very highly recommended.' Steve Marsh Brytyjski magazyn 'Classical Guitar'

  
  

• Tu Es Petrus February 2, 2008 - Rosemont Thatre, Rosemont Concert for students 10AM, Gala Concert 8PM.

  
  

• Haunted Manor „The Haunted Manor” a comic opera in four acts the Opera took place on Saturday, February 10 2007, at 10am (students) and Sunday, February 11 2007, at 3pm at the Rosemont Theatre in Chicago-Rosemont

  
  

• Kilar Ardor and Prayer, February 26, 2006 - Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center Wojciech Kilar- a prolific film composer, notably for such major Polish directors as Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzj Wajda, in the 1990s kilar has found success in the West for his scores to Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, for which he won an ASCAP award in 1993, Roman Polañski’s Death and the Maiden, and Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady. After a period of experimentation in the 1960s, his concert work became notable for its directness of expression and immediacy of impact. Polish traditional sources, sacred and secular, are often prominent in an idiom which, according to the writer Adrian Thomas, has “…been variously regarded as spuriously kitsch, naively devotional or intuitively post-modern”.

  
  

• Soul of Violin, May 26, 2003 Orchetra Hall at Symphony Center Soloists: Mriusz Patyra Conductor - Wojciech Niewrzol

  
  

• Dorota Osinska - March 5, 6 2005 Delicate, small and fragile, when she starts singing everything else stops. Since her first public appearance a few short years ago, Dorota Osinska has conquered the hearts of thousands, in both Europe and the United States, has won countless competitions, appeared and performed on national radio and television, and has come to perform side by side with Poland’s greatest. Her extraordinary talent, and her captivating voice so filled with emotion that audiences everywhere remain breathless, are matched only by her soulful depth and beauty. Combined with her shimmering personality, and a great inner strength, they may help explain this fearless artists’ rise to fame. But most important of all, is her passionate love for singing.