2nd Krakow Piano Summer 2016

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 Sopron, 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.

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.

William Wellborn enjoys an active career as a pianist, teacher and lecturer, and has performed and lectured widely on three continents. He received a MM (New En- gland Conservatory) and DMA (University of Texas) in Performance, and a BM in Piano Pedagogy (University of Texas), where his teachers included Gregory Allen, Patricia Zander, and Nancy Garrett, and two leaders in the field of piano pedagogy- Amanda Vick Lethco and Martha Hilley. He has also received coaching from John Perry, Leon Fleisher, Karl-Heinz Kammerling, Adam Wibrowski, Andrzej Jasinski, and Jerome Lowenthal. Guest artist appearances include the New Orleans Insti- tute for the Performing Arts, the Paderewski Festival, the American Liszt Society, the Great Romantics Festival in Hamilton, Canada, the Chopin chez George Sand festival de piano in Nohant, France, and the Tres Seculos de Piano series in Rio de Janeiro. In 2004 he had the honor of presenting an all-Liszt program on Liszt's piano at Hofgartnerei Museum in Weimar.

Born on 5 August 1992, in Cracow. He began learning piano at the age of nine. Since 2005, he has trained with Stefan Wojtas, first at music secondary school, now as a student of Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. He has won prizes in Polish and international competitions, including the Ludwik Stefanski and Halina Czerny-Stefanska (Plock 2008), the Concurs International de Piano Ricard Vines (Spain 2009), the Lviv International Chopin Piano Competition (Ukraine 2010), the 'Citta di Avezzano' Concorso Internazionale Pianistico (Italy 2011) and the Polish Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition (Warsaw 2011, 2015). He has taken part in the 67th Duszniki-Zdroj International Chopin Festival, the 18th 'Silesia' International Festival for Young Prize-winners of Music Competitions, the 5th ' Au- gust of Talents' Polish Promotional Festival and the 2nd Arthur Rubinstein Lodz Philharmonic Premia Festival. He has been awarded grants by the Sapere Auso Foundation, the President of the Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Pro Musica Bona Foundation.

Szymon Nehring is one of the most gifted and promising pianists of the younger generation in Poland. Thanks to his remarkable performances at the 17th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw, he was the only Pole to have reached the finals, which led to many invitations for concerts from Poland and abroad. Currently a student of Professor Stefan Wojtas at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, he studied piano in the class of Olga Lazarska at the Mieczyslaw Karlowicz Primary Music School in Krakow and at the Fryderyk Chopin Secondary Mu- sic School in Krakow for 11 years. Nehring regularly participates in competitions and festivals. His recent achievements include First Prize and six Special Prizes at the Halina Czerny-Stefanska in Memoriam International Piano Competition in Poznan(2014) and First Prize at the Arthur Rubinstein in Memoriam Competition in Bydgoszcz (2014). In October 2015 he performed in the finals of the 17th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition to win an Honourable Mention, the Audience Prize as well as a number of extra prizes, including awards for out- standing artistic creation and for his contribution to Polish music.

WIECZÓR RECITALOWY

Aurelien Froissart – Francja
Ludwik van Beethoven: Sonata f-moll op.57 "Appassionata"
- Allegro assai
- Andante con moto
- Allegro ma non troppo - Presto

Siergiej Rachmaninow: Wariacje na temat Corelliego, op.42

Gyorgy Ligeti: Etiuda “Escalier du Diable”

Reina Wada – Japonia
Ludwik van Beethoven: Sonata D-dur op.10 nr 3
- Presto
- Largo e mesto
- Menuetto
- Rondo

Fryderyk Chopin: Polonez-Fantazja As-dur, op.61

Franciszek Liszt: 6 Grandes Etudes d'apres Paganini

Ryota Suzuki
Paderewski: Menuet
Cracovienne fantastique

Mamiko Sugimoto
Chopin: Nokturn H-dur, op.9 nr 3
Scherzo b-moll, op.31

Dana Kadifa
Gershwin: Preludium nr 2
Rachmaninow: Preludium cis-moll, op.3 nr 2

Mayaka Nakagawa
Chopin: Nokturn cis-moll, op.27 nr 1
Liszt: Fontanny willi d'Este

Emil Reinert
Leszetycki: Ballada wenecka
Paderewski: Intermezzo polacco

Kwisoon Kim
Rachmaninow: Wokaliza

Reina Wada
Paganini - Liszt: La Campanella

Ryota Suzuki - Japonia
Joseph Haydn: Sonata C-dur nr.60, HOB:XVI/50
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro molto

Robert Schumann: Wariacje Abegg op.1

Franciszek Liszt: Rapsodia hiszpańska

Mayaka Nakagawa - Japonia
Franciszek Schubert: Sonata D-dur D.850
I. Allegro vivace
IV.Rondo

Fryderyk Chopin: 2 Nokturny op.27
Nr.1 cis-moll
Nr.2 Des-dur

Fryderyk Chopin: 4 Mazurki op.41
e-moll
H-dur
As-dur
cis-moll

Franciszek Liszt: Rapsodia Wegierska cis-moll, nr.12

Aurelien Froissart – Francja
Ludwik van Beethoven: Sonata f-moll, op.57 – Appassionata
II. Andante con moto
III. Allegro ma non troppo - - Presto

Ryota Suzuki – Japonia
Fryderyk Chopin: Scherzo b-moll, op.31
Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Cracovienne fantastique

Joanna Pietrzyk – Polska
Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Chant d'amour

Reina Wada – Japonia
Fryderyk Chopin: Polonez Fantazja As-dur, op.61

Justyna Chmielowiec - Polska/Francja
Fryderyk Chopin: Mazurek As-dur, op.59 nr 2
Stanislaw Moniuszko/Melcer: Przasniczka

Emil Reinert - Niemcy/Francja
Franciszek Brzezinski: Temat i Wariacje op.3
Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Intermezzo polacco

Mayaka Nakagawa – Japonia
Franciszek Liszt: Rapsodia Wegierska cis-moll, nr 12

WIECZÓR RECITALOWY

Kwisoon Kim - Korea/Japonia
Jan Sebastian Bach: Toccata D-dur BWV 912
Presto
Allegro
Adagio
Con discrezione
Fuga

Sergiej Rachmaninow: Wokaliza
Etiuda E-dur op.33 nr.9

Franciszek Liszt: Sonata-Fantazja "Po lekturze Dantego"

Emil Reinert - Niemcy/Francja
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Gawot z wariacjami
Franciszek Brzezinski: Wariacje op.3
Teodor Leszetycki: Ballade vénitienne, op. 39 n°1
Karol Szymanowski: Mazurek op. 50 nr 1
Ignacy Paderewski: Intermezzo polacco
Fryderyk Chopin: Ballada g-moll, op. 23

Dana Kalifa (USA) i Mamiko Sugimoto (Japonia)
Beethoven: Sonata d-moll, op.31 nr 2

Kwisoon Kim (Japonia)
Liszt: Fontanny willi d'Este

Aurelien Froissart (Francja)
Rachmaninow: Wariacje na temat Corelliego

Ryota Suzuki (Japonia)
Debussy: Estampes
- Pagody
- Ogrody w deszczu

Reina Wada (Japonia)
Liszt - Paganini: Etiuda wg. kaprysu nr 24

Emil Reinert (Niemcy/Francja)
Chopin: Ballade nr 1 g-moll, op.23