Basia Bernhardt

01/27/2025

📣 🎼 Join us for a Winter Concert by Karolina and Iwo, and let the music warm your hearts!

FRIDAY, January 31 at 6:30 PM
KFDC 2025 O Street NW
Washington DC, 20036

The 60-min. invigorating program will include works by Vivaldi, Chopin, Bartok and Piazzolla! Read more at
www.thekf.org/event

🍷 Refreshments will be served.

🎟️ Purchase tickets HERE:
https://bit.ly/40Thtjz

04/07/2024

03/31/2024

The Beauty of Easter:
the spirit of renewal
the promise of a brighter tomorrow.
the arrival of Ostara, the Goddess of Fertility - a fresh start
time for growth and transformation.

Happy Easter Everyone!

03/04/2024

The KF 68th Chopin Piano Competition has been an amazing musical feast! The level of the contestants was very high. Our distinct jury members consisted of the highly regarded pianists: Akiko Ebi from Japan, Ewa Poblocka from Poland, Krzysztof Jablonski from Poland/Canada, Linda Perikova from Czech Republic and Maestro Piotr Gajewski from the US.
Three finalists performed with the members of the National Philharmonic, and the Award Ceremony took place at the Residence of the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland.
The winners were announced:
First Prize - Yuya Nishimoto from Japan
The Second Prize was split between Athena Deng from Canada and Antoni Kleczek from Poland.
Szymanowski Prize was divided between Yuya Nishimoto and Athena Deng.
Congratulations!

10/12/2023

10/12/2023

09/15/2023

Please join us for a screening of the film: Chopin. I Am Not Afraid of Darkness

September 23, 2023 at 6 pm
The Kosciuszko Foundation Washington DC
2025 O St., N.W., Washington, DC 20036

Tickets $10
Purchase online below
or reserve a spot and pay at the door.

The movie is a powerful production about three pianists of different nationalities and cultural backgrounds, a Syrian, a Korean, and a Pole, preparing concerts of Chopin music in places associated with great suffering: the city center of Beirut, the border between South and North Korea, and the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. The picture takes the viewer on a cinematic journey through these unique and sinister sceneries, while weaving together the stories of these outstanding musicians.

The screening will be followed by discussion.

Chopin: I Am Not Afraid of Darkness received a 59th Golden Prague International Television Festival award in September 2022.

Watch the movie trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dNcSCe8wpI

Tickets $10 Purchase online here: https://form.jotform.com/232546102110135

09/15/2023

Please join us at this fun event, during which the KF will honor brothers:

Jan Komasa, filmmaker
and
Szymon Komasa, opera singer

Dinner, wine, award ceremony, artistic program, Q & A with the honorees, raffle, silent auction, and dancing!

Purchase Gala tickets, raffle tickets, place an ad in our Gala Journal, or make a donation online here: https://form.jotform.com/232544797519166

All proceeds from the Gala will go towards the future programs and events at the KF in Washington DC

Gala guests may book rooms at the Mayflower Hotel at the discounted rate here:
https://book.passkey.com/event/50645735/owner/1261/home

Thank you and see you at the Gala!

Questions? Please email: [email protected]

05/28/2023

Please join us for the following upcoming event:

Celebrating International Children’s Day with Young Musical Talents

Saturday, June 3, 2023, 3 PM
The Kosciuszko Foundation Washington DC
2025 O St. NW
Washington DC 20036
FREE ENTRY

The program will feature:

Sujit Hegde
Chopin – Nocturne Op.32 No.1
Debussy – From Preludes Book I “Interrupted Serenade”

Anastasia Fitenko
Copland – The Cat and the Mouse
Chopin – Nocturne Op.72 No.1

Evelina Kleczek
Chopin – Scherzo No.4 Op.54
Debussy – The Joyful Island

Matthew Chang
Ligeti – Etude No.4 “Fanfares”
Chopin – Nocturne Op.62 No.2
Prokofiev – Sonata No.7 Op.83 – Precipitato

Antoni Kleczek
Chopin – Nocturne Op.9 No.3
Liszt – Transcendental Etude No.5 “Feux Follets”
Prokofiev – Sonata No.6 Op.82 – Vivace

More: https://thekf.org/event/kf-dc-chopin-for-our-youths-celebrating-international-children-day-with-the-music-of-fryderyk-chopin/