1st Krakow Piano Summer 2015
1st International Masterclasses 27th July – 10th August 2015
Teachers
Adam Wibrowski
Director of Krakow Piano Summer
Adam Wibrowski is the founder and served as artistic director of several major musical events in Europe: Chopin Festival in Nohant, France; Liszt Festival in So- pron, Hungary; Austria Piano Summer in Wiener Neustadt, Austria; Deutscher Klavierwettbeweb Polnischer Musik in Hamburg, Germany; International Music Sessions in Holland; and of E.U. program Piano as Mirror of European Culture. He is a Masters Graduate in Piano Performance (prof. Ludwik Stefanski) of the Superior Academy of Music in Kraków and studied the doctorate of 3 cycle at the Sorbonne in Paris. He is an accomplished pianist and teacher and provides con- certs, master classes, and workshops throughout Europe, Japan, China, Australia, Canada and the United States.
He currently teaches at the Conservatoire Hector Berlioz in Paris, France, and is an internationally recognized authority on the life and music of Fryderyk Chopin and is the President of Chopin Society of Nohant, France. He taught for a number of years at the University of Southern California with John Perry and has won many awards and served on many juries in the United States and Europe.
Guest Professors
Hubert Rutkowski
Hochschule für Musik und Theater, HAMBURG, Germany
The pianist is a graduate of the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw in the class of professor Anna Jastrzebska-Quinn. Studies within the scope of chamber music he has completed with professor Krystyna Borucinska. Having finished studies, he pursued doctoral studies there under the direction of professor Alicja Pale- ta-Bugaj. Between 2005-2010, he completed master postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg in the class of professor Evgeni Koroliov. He is a prize-holder of many international and national piano competitions, including the Main Prize of the Chopin Competition in Hannover (2007); distinction "Medalla per Unanimitat" at the 52nd International Maria Canals Pia- no Competition in Barcelona (2006); 1st prize at the National Piano Competition in Warsaw (2000); 3rd prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Vilnius (1999).
Hubert Rutkowski is a founder and President of the Theodor Leschetizky Music Society in Warsaw. Since April 2010 he has served as a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg as one of the youngest professors in this university. Since November 2011, Hubert Rutkowski has been leading also his piano class at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen.
Neal Larrabee
University of Connecticut, USA
Pianist, has performed in major music centers including New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow and St. Petersburg. His appearances as recitalist and as soloist with orchestras have won critical acclaim. He has toured extensively in Germany, Russia, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia and in Argentina. In Poland, Larrabee has become a well-known favorite of the concert-going public.
Schedule of events
Lectures
Participants’ concert programs
Środa 5 sierpnia, 2015 – g. 19:00 – Centrum Kultury Żydowskiej, ul. Meiselsa – 17 RECITAL CHOPINOWSKI
Sobota 8 sierpnia, 2015 – g. 19:00 – Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa Rynek Glowny 35
Niedziela 9 sierpnia, 2015 – g. 11:00 – Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa, Rynek Glowny 35
Niedziela 9 sierpnia, 2015 – g. 12:30 – Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa, Rynek Glowny 35