In January, 2008 Joanna Kurkowicz will finalize recording of Violin Concerto op. 67 and Concertino op.42 (World Premier recording) by Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996) with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Poland, under conductor Gabriel Chmura. The recording will be released on Chandos Records later this year.

On November 30th 2007 Joanna Kurkowicz appeared at Barge Music Series in New York with her colleagues: pianist Doris Stevenson and percussionist Matt Gold.
She performed works by  American composers: Andre Previn,
Kenji Bunch and Frederic Rzewski in the program The New Yorker described as "a range of appealing works for violin, percussion, and piano."

On October 22, renowned Polish composer Zygmunt Krauze visited Tufts University in Boston for a recital and a lecture. The composer performed some of his solo pieces and then was joined by Ms. Kurkowicz and her group for his Piano Quintet. Other performers were Sarita Uranovsky, violin II; Scott Woolweaver, viola; and Emmanuell Feldman, cello.

On October 17, 18, 20, and 21, 2007 Joanna Kurkowicz was a soloist in the US Premiere of Svara Yantra, the Concerto for violin and tabla by Shirish Korde with the Boston Philharmonic. The concerts took place in Jordan Hall, Boston, Sanders Theater, Cambridge and Mechanics Hall, Worcester. The public response  was overwhelming with standing ovation after each of four concerts and great reviews in the Boston Globe and other publications.

The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra 2007-2008 Season,
Concert 1 October 18, 20 & 21, 2007, included American premiere of Svara Yantra.

"We have an amazing opening planned for next season. The orchestra is giving the American premiere of Svara Yantra, a dazzling violin concerto by local composer Shirish Korde that combines elements of Western music with instrumental techniques, rhythms, and scales peculiar to the music of India. It was composed especially for our beloved concertmistress Joanna Kurkowicz, who has performed it in Europe and Asia. It is enthralling—I’m completely in love with it and I know everyone who hears it in October will be spellbound."

—Benjamin Zander,
Music Director and Conductor, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra.

In November 2005 Joanna played a World Premiere of Shirish Korde Violin Concerto Svara Yantra with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Poland. The concerto was inspired and written for her and met with exceptionally enthustiastic public response.

In 2006-2007 season, Joanna performed Svara Yantra concerto, with the New Zealand Symphony as a part of the Asia Pacific Festival in Wellington, New Zealand and with the Koszalin Philharmonic in Poland.

The recording of Svara Yantra and Dancing Cranes are currently available for download at CHANDOS Records website and Amazon.

February 3rd, 2007 Chameleon Arts Ensemble season concert in Goethe Institute in Boston featured Joanna Kurkowicz playing J. Adams Road Movies for violin and piano and J. Brahms Piano Quartet in c minor.

On January 20th, 2007 Joanna appeared as a guest artist at Harvard University Paine Hall with the Parker String Quartet performing Boston Premiere of S. Korde Dancing Cranes for solo violin and a string quartet and the world premiere of A Birth for solo violin and string quartet written by Laura Koplevitz.

On January 19th, 2007 Joanna performed E. Bloch -- Baal Shem: Three Pictures of Chassidic Life for violin and piano at the Corcoran Gallery Concert Series in Washington, DC paired with piano trios by D. Shostakovitch and L. Beethoven.

This fall Joanna Kurkowicz was involved in an exciting concert and recording project with Percussion Plus Project at DePauw University, a unique contemporary chamber music ensemble, whose programs consist of works for percussion and one solo instrument. The concert featured Joanna playing Lou Harrison Violin Concerto, Marta Ptaszynska Dream Lands and Magic Spaces and John Harbison Fourteen Fabled Songs.

As her collaborations with living composers continue, this summer Joanna Kurkowicz returns to perform at popular Barge Music Concert Series in NYC to present New York Premiere of David Kechley's Violin Sonata among other pieces. The Sonata was written for Joanna and the pianist Doris Stevenson. You can listen to this piece on Art of the States -- site dedicated to new and lesser-known music from the United States.

Joanna is a  frequent soloist with the orchestras in Poland. In May 2006 she performed W.A. Mozart Concerto No.3 with the Sudecka Philharmonic as one of the highlights of Eurosilesia International Festival. Future concerto invitations include the Poznan Philharmonic, the Swietokrzyska Philharmonic as well as finishing recording project of Laura Koplevitz's Violin Concerto (written and dedicated to her) with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice.