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Magdalena's lecture-recital "The Art of the Prelude" is now available as an episode of the SNF Rendez-vous podcast. The Art of the Prelude took place on February 5th as a part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Rendez-vous series at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Magdalena explored the history of composing and performing 17th- and 18th-century keyboard preludes, tracing the development of the genre over time. The program featured a wide range of keyboard preludes, i

Magdalena Baczewska performed her original music at Live Magazine's event "Journalism and Crisis: Stories of Resistance" held at Reid Hall Columbia Global Center Paris. Stories were presented on stage by six journalists: Phil Chetwynd, Nina Berman, Hanna Liubakova, Tomas van Houtryve, Aïda Delpuech, and Doan Bui. Read more here

The Art of the Prelude Reid Hall | 4, rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris Free, registration required In this lecture-recital, pianist and harpsichordist Magdalena Baczewska explores the history of composing and performing 17th- and 18th-century keyboard preludes, tracing the development of the genre over time. The program will feature a wide range of keyboard preludes, including works by Jean-Henri d’Anglebert, Louis Couperin, Johann Sebastian Bach, Fryderyk Chopin, and Claude D

This Spring, Magdalena joins the cohort of Fellows of the Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris. Magdalena Stern-Baczewska is a Polish-American concert pianist, harpsichordist, and educator. Since 2014, she has served as the Director of the Music Performance Program and Senior Lecturer in Music at Columbia University. She has performed as a soloist with major orchestras such as the San Francisco Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra and has appeared in concerts with nota

Magdalena has been selected as a 2025-26 Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris.  „Bringing together innovative scholars with some of the world’s most exciting young film-makers, sound artists, writers and poets, photographers, and composers, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination is proud to announce the 2025-26 Fellowship cohort which will be joining us in Paris in September 2025. Working on a range of topics from Roman slaves making books and

Concluding her artist residency at the Academia de Música y Humanidades José Suárez Molina in Zacatecas, Mexico, Magdalena Baczewska gives a piano and harpsichord recital, featuring music by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, François Couperin, J. S. Bach, and F. Chopin.

As a part of her artist residency at the Academia de Música y Humanidades José Suárez Molina in Zacatecas, Mexico, Magdalena Baczewska gives a piano and harpsichord masterclass.

The lecture "Los Preludios de Chopin como la Enciclopedia del Pianismo del Siglo XIX" [Chopin’s Preludes  as the Encyclopedia of the 19-Century Pianism] is the first part of Magdalena's artistic residency at the Academia de Música y Humanidades José Suárez Molina in Zacatecas, Mexico. Si bien rinde homenaje al Clave bien temperado de Johann Sebastian Bach, en sus Preludios op. 28, Chopin reinventa el género para el pianista de su época. A medida que el instrumento evoluciona,

As a guest artist of Kutztown University, Magdalena Baczewska gives a piano masterclass on November 13th.

Magdalena Baczewska will perform The Banquet Concerto , and  The Triple Resurrection  by the Oscar-winning Chinese-American composer Tan Dun, with the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, November 6, 2025, at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, under the baton of the composer.  Also on the program: Tan Dun’s  Hero Concerto ,  Crouching Tiger Concerto ,  The Banquet Concerto , and  The Triple Resurrection . Magdalena has had the pleasure of collaborating with Maestro

Magdalena Baczewska has been awarded the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Arts and Music Award from the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America. The award ceremony is by invitation only. Other awardees include Professor Andrzej Chwalba of the Jagiellonian Univeristy (Wacław Jędrzejewicz History Award) and the literary critic Wojciech Wencel (Joseph Conrad Literature Award).

Magdalena Baczewska performs music by Brahms and Dvorak for a celebration of Walter Frisch's distinguished career in the Columbia University's Department of Music. This event is by invitation only. Read about Prof. Frisch here .

Magdalena returns to the Music Educators Association of New Jersey with the lecture-recital “Chopin’s Preludes as the Encyclopedia of the 19-Century Pianism.” This event is open to the members of the MEA.

Magdalena Baczewska presents harpsichord works by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, François Couperin, and J.S. Bach. Thursday, October 9, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University, 1160 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027 More information here . Watch live on YouTube. Registration for campus access . Event Contact Information: Julian Bennett Holmes :   jbh2170@columbia.edu

Magdalena Baczewska will join the Cassatt String Quartet at Maverick Concerts for a performance of Schumann's timeless Piano Quintet. More information at this link.

Magdalena Baczewska will be starting the new concert season with the performance of Schumann's Piano Quintet with the Cassatt String Quartet, at the Music Mountain Festival. More information at this link.

For the sixth time, Magdalena Baczewska will join the faculty of the Art & Music Humanities summer program, held at the Columbia Global Center in Paris. The program is a part of Columbia University's Center for Undergraduate Global Engagement. More information here.

Stay tuned for more information about Magdalena's annual piano recital at Reid Hall, in Paris. Details will be published on this page . Read Magdalena's Columbia Global Center profile here .

Magdalena Baczewska will give an online lecture “Chopin’s Exile and Celebrity” for the Chopin Academy of Atlanta. Other lectures include John Rink (University of Cambridge, U.K.), and John Thomas Dodson (Oberlin Conservatory of Music).

Magdalena Baczewska will join the faculty of the tonebase Piano Festival at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, alongside Garrick Ohlsson,...