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Teen cellist defies all odds to win international music comp

Witkowska started playing the cello at the age of seven and is currently a pupil at the Frederyk Chopin Music School in Gdańsk. Family archive

VIDEO: Milena Witkowska from Gdańsk, came first for the cello in her age category (14-16 years) at the Newport Virtuosi competition.

‘I have so many good songs that there is no time to waste’, says singing sensation ‘sanah’

VIDEO: With her debut album clocking up over 135 million views, topping the music charts and quickly going platinum, to say Warsaw singer ‘sanah’ is an overnight sensation would be an understatement. TFN’s Nick Westerby caught up to find out more about the 23-year-old dominating Poland’s music scene.

Polish punk, reggae icon Pawel Rozwadowski dies aged 58

Pawel 'Kelner' Rozwadowski, a renowned Polish musician, writer and co-founder of the reggae band Izrael and punk rock band Deuter died on Sunday at the age of 58 after long illness.

BBC presents programme on only black insurgent in 1944 Warsaw Uprising

BBC, on Saturday, presented a programme about August Agboola Browne, a Nigeria-born jazz musician, thought to have been the only black participant in the Polish defence war in September 1939 and the only black participant in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

Writer, musician, activist Piotr Szczepanik dies aged 78

Piotr Szczepanik, a renowned Polish musician, writer and actor also known for his communist-era opposition activism died on Thursday at the age of 78.

Touching WWII love story between Polish musician and Scottish nurse uncovered after discovery of haunting waltz

The melancholy piece entitled A Girl’s Tears by musician Bolesław ‘Bollo’ Ilnicki was found in a Scottish hospital where he composed it for the nurse who had looked after him in 1940.

Musician creates riverside ‘sound benches’ to enhance the sounds of mother nature

Visitors to rural stretches of the River Odra will be able to absorb the sounds of nature this summer thanks to shell-like ‘sound-benches’ that will enhance all of mother nature’s chirping, tweeting, croaking and singing.

Władysław ‘The Pianist’ Szpilman remembered on 108th birthday anniversary

With both a glittering pre and post-war musical career, after surviving the war through a combination of luck, the bravery of pre-war friends and the unlikely intervention of a music-loving German officer, Szpilman was later accused of being a Gestapo agent.

Destination city hall: Vietnamese woman hopes to bring a soothing note to Warsaw politics

Hanoi-born music therapist Dao Minh Thuy is running for a seat on the capital’s council.

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Documentary makers race to raise cash for Oscars nomination

The documentary describes Warsaw University archaeology professor Andrzej Niwiński’s life-long search in the Valley of King’s for the hidden tomb of 11th century BC Egyptian ruler Herhor. 

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