3rd Krakow Piano Summer 2017

Ignacy Paderewski's artistic, political and philanthropic paths very often went through Cracow. The initial event on his way was undeniably the concert that he gave together with a world famous actress, Helena Modrzejewska in the Saski Hotel at Sławkowska Street on 3 October in 1884. Thanks to this concert, the twenty four year old pianist not only became well known, but also received a substantial income which made it possible for him to go to Vienna to begin his studies with Theodor Leszetycki. This, in turn, opened for him a career of the world pianist. In 1910 Paderewski unveiled the funded by himself Grunwald Monument at Matejki Square. The monument commemorated the 500th anniversary of the Polish victory in Grunwald. The gathering of thousands of Poles from the three annexed parts of Poland and Paderewski's famous speech initiated his patriotic engagement, which led him to the position of a world leader of the Polish independence issues up till his presidency of Poland in 1919. Cracow regarded by Paderewski as the birthplace of Polish history and culture was granted by him with a rich funding which up till now enables the functioning of Collegium Paderevianum of the Jagiellonian University. There are many traces of Paderewski's connections with Cracow. The monument of Paderewski by prof. Czesław Dzwigaj has been recently unveiled in the Strzelecki Park in Cracow.

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 Klavier- wettbeweb 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 concerts, 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.

San Francisco

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 Institute 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.

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.

Szymon Nehring is one of the most gifted and promising pianists of the younger generation in Poland. He is winner of the 2017 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. 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 Mu- sic 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 Music 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 Honorable Mention, the Audience Prize as well as a number of extra prizes, including awards for outstanding artistic creation and for his contribution to Polish music.

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 inter- national 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 Pia- no 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 August 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.

He was born in 1996 in Bochnia. He began his musical education in 2003 in his hometown, attending PSM I, to the piano class of Agata Zając. Then passed the exam to PSM II st. Władysław Żeleński in Cracow, where he now graduated and where he was educated under the supervision of Olga Lazarski.

He has achieved great achievements on piano competitions, including: 2nd place at the 10th International Piano Competition "Artur Rubinstein in memoriam" in Bydgoszcz, 1st place and Grand Prix at the 13th Piano Competition in. Halina Czerny-Stefańska and Ludwik Stefański in Płock. Jakub Kuszlik received a scholar- ship from the "Sapere Auso" Foundation and the "Pro Musica Bona" Foundation.

KAI XU
Ignacy PADEREWSKI : Krakowiak

RILEY COOK
Maurice RAVEL : Jeux d'eau

AYAKO AIHARA
Fryderyk CHOPIN : Ballade nr. 3

LEO JERGOVIC
Franz LISZT : Cloches de Geneve

CHARIS TANG
Franz LISZT : Sonet nr 104

CHENCHEN LU
Fryderyk CHOPIN : Sonata h-moll op.58
1. Allegro maestoso

MIKHAIL VTORUSHIN
Ignacy PADEREWSKI : Chant d'amour

KYLE FANG
Sergiej PROKOFIEW : Sonata nr 7
2. Andante caloroso

CAITLYN KESTER
Claude DEBUSSY : Etude pour les arpèges composes

ANDREW YANG
Johannes BRAHMS : Fantasies op.116
6. Andantino teneramente
7. Allegro agitato

7.00 P.M. REINA WADA

Fryderyk CHOPIN : Fantasy in f minor op.49

Franciszek LISZT : Spanish Rapsody

Robert SCHUMANN : Symphonic Etudes op.13

8.00 P.M. ANDREW YANG

Johannes BRAHMS : Fantaisies op.116 # 1, 3, 4, 6, 7

Federico MOMPOU : Cancion y Danza nr. 6

Isaac ALBENIZ: Asturias

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Fryderyk CHOPIN : Nocturne in g minor op.37 # 1

Braam van EEDE : 6 Miniatures from 10 Miniatures dedicated to Andrew Yang. Poland and European premiere
I. Adagio
II. Vivace
III. Andante
VIII. Moderato
IX. Larghetto
X. Allegro

Ch. GOUNOD - F. LISZT : Faust Waltz

KAI XU
Jozef HAYDN : Sonata in F Major HOB.XVI:23 (1773)
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Presto

AYAKO AIHARA
L. van BEETHOVEN : Sonata in E flat Major op.31# 3 (1802)
III. Menuetto
IV. Presto con fuoco

ANDREW YANG
Franz SCHUBER : Sonata in a minor D 784 (1823)
I. Allegro giusto

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EMIL REINERT
Robert SCHUMANN : Sonata nr.1 fis-moll op.11 (1835)
Allegro vivace
Aria
Scherzo e intermezzo
Finale. Allegro un poco maestoso

KYLE FANG
Sergiusz PROKOFIEW : Sonata nr.7 B-dur op.83 (1942)
Allegro inquieto
Andante caloroso
Precipitato

Gershwin : 3 Preludes - Riley Cook
Paderewski : Krakowiak op. 9 no.1 - Kai Xu
Liszt : Sonetto 104 del Petrarca - Charis Tang
Prokofiev : Capuleti i Montecchi - Leo Jergovic
Chopin : Etiuda Rewolucyjna
Chopin : Polonaise As-dur op. 53 - Chenchen Lu

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Chopin : Variations Der Schweizerbub - Safi Rouhi
Debussy : L'Isle Joyeuse - Kyle Fang
Rachmaninoff : Prelude Es-dur op. 23 no. 6 - Mikhael Vtorushin
Ginastera : Danza del gaucho matrero - Caitlyn Kester
Gounod-Liszt : Walc z opery Faust - Andrew Yang

Winner of the 2017 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competiton, Tel Aviv

W.A. MOZART : Sonata in F Major KV 280
1. Allegro assai
2. Adagio
3. Presto

L. van BEETHOVEN : Sonata in F minor op.57 – Appassionata
1. Allegro assai
2. Andante con moto
3. Allegro ma non troppo – Presto

Fryderyk CHOPIN : Sonata No 2 in B-flat minor op.35
1. Grave - Doppio movimento
2. Scherzo
3. Marche funèbre
4. Finale: Presto

Tribute to Ignace PADEREWSKI in Henryk SIENKIEWICZ House

S. BACH : Prelude & Fugue in g minor, 2.Book - AYAKO AIHARA

CHOPIN : Ballade in g minor op.23 - CAITLYN KESTER

CHOPIN : Fantaisie in f minor op.49 - REINA WADA

CHOPIN : Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante in E flat Major op.22 - MASAYO MATSUURA

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GERSWIN : Three Preludes (1926) - RILEY COOK

FRANCK : Prelude, Chorale et Fugue - MAYUMI YUASA

PROKOFIEFF : Romeo and Juliette (excerpt) - LEO JERGOVIC

ALBENIZ : Asturias - ANDREW YANG

ADAM WIBROWSKI & WILLIAM WELLBORN with THEIR STUDENTS: 4 HANDS SURPRISE!

Tribute to Ignace Paderewski In His House

Open program concert
Audience choice from musical menu :

PADEREWSKI - LESZETYCKI CHOPIN - BACH- HAYDN - MOZART LISZT

BRAHMS - BEETHOVEN - PROKOFIEFF - DEBUSSY - RAVEL SCRIABIN - SZYMANOWSKI...