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35th Karol Szymanowski Music Days
2012-06-25
Nine Zakopane concerts in July will be filled with pearls of Polish piano music, chamber music and orchestral music, always in the best performances. The history of the Karol Szymanowski Music Days reaches back to 1977 when the first festival dedicated to Karol Szymanowski was organised in Zakopane on the initiative of Maciej Pinkwart, curator of the Karol Szymanowski Museum. Up until 1987, the Karol Szymanowski Music Days took place in March, and later in September. Starting from the tenth edition, the festival takes place in July – the peak tourist month in the Podhale region. Symphonic and chamber music concerts are held in Zakopane’s magnificent churches and attractive galleries. And this is how it will be this year; due to the ongoing renovation of the historic "Atma" house, Szymanowski's music will travel to the Orski Gallery (Galeria Orskiego), the H. Zamoyski Municipal Art Gallery, the Jasny Palace and the Holy Cross Church.The detailed schedule of events:
35th Karol Szymanowski Music Days in Zakopane
12-20 July 2012
12 July 2012
H. Zamoyski Municipal Art Gallery
INAUGURAL Concert on Wojciech Kilar’s 80th Birthday
Promotion of CD: Polska muzyka kameralna na instrumenty dęte („Polish Chamber Music for Wind Instruments”)
In the programme: Kilar, Baird, Lessel, Szymanowski
Performers: Joanna Domańska –piano, Roman Widaszek – clarinet, Tadeusz
Tomaszewski – horn.
Performance of works by Tadeusz Baird is co-financed and will take place under the auspices of the Institute of Music and Dance programme „Nowe interpretacje”
13 July 2012
Galeria Orskiego
Concert promoting the Karol Szymanowski CD – Complete Violin-Piano Works which was awarded with a „Fryderyk” in 2011:
In the programme: Szymanowski, Paderewski
Sławomir Tomasik - violin / Robert Morawski – piano
14 July 2012
Galeria Orskiego
Recital. In the programme: Szymanowski, Lipiński, Khachaturian, Gershwin
Anna Gutowska – violin, Lubow Nawrocka – piano
Performance of works by Karol Lipiński is co-financed and will take place under the auspices of the Institute of Music and Dance programme „Nowe interpretacje”
15 July 2012
Jasny Pałac
Choral Concert - OCTAVA ensemble
In the programme: Szymanowski, Czarnecki, Gospels
16 July 2012
Galeria Orskiego
Concert of Competition Winners: the Ada Sari Vocal Competition in Nowy Sącz and the Szymanowski im Memoriam Piano Competition in Warsaw
Ewelina Siedlecka – Kosińska – soprano / Yumi Palleschi - piano (Italy)
Tomasz Ritter – piano
In the programme: Beethoven, Strauss, Rachmaninov, Szymanowski
17 July 2012
Związek Podhalan
Posiady.
Ed. Adam Rozlach
18 July 2012
Galeria Orskiego
Chamber Concert: Michajło Zakhariya – dulcimer (Ukraine)
Dana Zakhariya – piano (Slovakia)
In the programme: Bach, Chopin, Szymanowski, Kotiuk, Cikker, Haidenko, Burdin, Zakhariya
19 July 2012
Galeria Orskiego
Concert by Winner of the 2012 Adam Didur Vocal Competition in Bytom
Ewa Wąsik – soprano / Grzegorz Biegas – piano
In the programme: Mozart, Bellini, Gounod, Rachmaninov, Turina, Szymanowski
20 July 2012
Galeria Orskiego
Master and Pupil Concert –
prof. Bronisława Kawalla – piano, Andrzej Karałow - piano
In the programme: Bach, Chopin, Szymanowski
Event Accompanying the Festival:
21 July 2012
Holy Cross Church
Gala Concert on the occasion of the 130th Anniversary of Karol Szymanowski’s Birth
Performers: Beethoven Academy Orchestra, conductor Massimiliano Caldi
Łukasz Błaszczyk – violin
Programme:
J. Poniatowski – Overture to the Opera „Pierre de Medicis”
F. Lessel – Finale molto presto
Karol Szymanowski – Violin Concerto II
J. Brahms – Symphony III
Addresses:
H. Zamoyski Municipal Art Gallery (Miejska Galeria Sztuki im. Władysława hr. Zamoyskiego), ul. Krupówki 41
Orski Gallery (Galeria Orskiego), ul. W. Broniewskiego 4
Jasny Pałac, ul. Tetmajera 24
Biała Izba Związku Podhalan, ul. Kościuszki 2
Organiser: Towarzystwo Muzyczne im. Karola Szymanowskiego.
Financed with funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
Project realised with financial support from the Małopolskie Voivodeship.
Further financed by the Town of Zakopane.
Co-organisers:
Instytut Muzyki i Tańca
Tatrzańska Agencja Rozwoju, Promocji i Kultury,
Biuro Promocji Zakopanego
Galeria Orskiego – Zakopane
Miejska Galeria Sztuki
Sponsors: Krakowski Park Technologiczny, Stowarzyszenie Autorów ZAiKS, Związek Artystów Wykonawców Stoart.
Media Patron: Radio Kraków, www.polskamuza.eu
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