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"Highly Strung Emotions" - Paweł Mykietyn's Music in Italy
2012-05-07
On the initiative of the Polish Institute in Rome, in this year's 10th festival of Polish culture, Corso Polonia, Paweł Mykietyn’s music will be presented in Italy for the first time. On 31 May in the Casella Hall, selected chamber music pieces representative of Mykietyn’s work will be presented: Epiphora for piano and tape, Sonata for cello, Shakespeare's Sonnets for male soprano and piano, An Album Leaf for cello and tape, and Jeśli przyjdzie Katelbach for tape. They will be performed by Andrzej Bauer (cello), Joanna Wicherek (piano), Michał Sławecki (male soprano) Ewa Guziołek-Tubelewicz (sound engineering).In addition to the concert, a meeting with the composer is scheduled which will be led by Sandro Cappelletto,a well-known musicologist, music critic and artistic director of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, and a showing of the movie „Tatarak” ("Sweet Rush") by Andrzej Wajda, for which Mykietyn composed the music. The evening was organized in collaboration with the Accademia Filarmonica Romana (one of the most important musical institutions in Rome).
A day earlier, May 30, the composer will lead a master class for students from Matteo D'Amico’s composition class in Rome’s Santa Cecilia Conservatoire.
Information about the festival on the website http://www.istitutopolacco.it/index.php?mod=2&app=299&c_month=5&c_year=2012
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