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The Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition 8-23 October 2011
2011-10-04
A concert with Agata Szymczewska and the Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic under the baton of Pablo Gonzalez will inaugurate the 14th Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Poznań. October 8, 2011 she will perform Karol Szymanowski’s Second Violin Concerto, Op. 61, a piece which was first heard in 1933, performed by the recipient of this piece, the superb viloinst Paweł Kochański.The competition auditions will be held from 9-21 October, 2011 in the Auditorium of the Adam Mickiewicz University. 53 participants will take part in them, the most of whom are Polish (18) and Russian (11). The winners will be announced October 22, 2011. However, at the end of the contest, October 23, 2011 star of the violin world - Maxim Vengerov - will perform L. van Beethoven’s "Violin Concerto in D Major", Op. 61. During the concert, the overture to Karol Kurpiński’s opera „Dwie chatki” will also be heard.
The tradition of organizing the competition goes back to 1935, in which the great composer's nephew - Adam Wieniawski (also a composer, director of the Warsaw Music Society and the F. Chopin Higher School of Music) initiated the international meetings of young violinists in Warsaw. The outbreak of war interrupted all artistic plans, and it was only in 1952, after seventeen years, that the competition was reborn, not in Warsaw but in Poznań and from that time it has been held regularly every five years.
More information about the competition on the organiser’s website: http://www.wieniawski.pl/o-konkursie-muzycznym.html
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