4th Krakow Piano Summer 2018

4th KRAKOW PIANO SUMMER (JULY 24 – AUGUST 10, 2018)

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 Sopron, Hungary; Austria Piano Summer in Wiener Neustadt, Austria; Leschetizky Plano Competition in Hamburg, Germany; International Music Sessions in Hol- land; 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 pro- vides concerts, master classes, and workshops throughout Europe, Japan, China, Australia, Canada and the United States.

He currently teaches at the Conservatoire Hec- tor 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 South- ern California with John Perry and has won many awards and served on many juries in the United States and Europe.

William Wellborn

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 England 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.

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 di- rection of professor Alicja Paleta-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 Piano 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.

Workshop: How to play and improvaise famous american tunes

Prof. Brenda Bruce

Master of Music, New England Conservatory, Boston

American pianist. Emerging Artists grantee City of Raleigh, 1992, United Arts, 1995, State Arts Council grantee, since 1995, regional artists grantee, 1999-2001, NCMTA grantee. Member National Music Teachers Association, National Guild of Piano, Raleigh Piano Teachers Association (vice president), Cary-Apex Piano Teachers Association (president); Pi Kappa Lampda. Classically trained Brenda Bruce will offer classes on improvising on familiar melodies from Broadway and Jazz Standards of the Big Band Era. Simultaneous with her classical training--Master of Music in Piano Performance from New England Conservatory - she privately developed her skills in popular music which afforded her many career opportunities. She has used her skills for the pleasure of the public in many hotels, clubs, private parties, and an unusual 12-year gig playing during lunch hours at SAS Institute, a private software development company.

Special guests

Meet the New Generation of Polish Pianists

Kamil Pacholec

He began grandpiano lessons at the age of seven in Ludomir Różycki Music School in Kielce in the class of Małgorzata Kowalska. Since 2017 he has been a student of Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice in the class of Prof. Wojciech Świtała. He is the laureate of many pianist competitions in Poland, France, Italy and the USA. He gave recitals at many renowned grandpiano competitions: 72 th International Cho- pin Festival in Duszniki Zdrój, Chopin a Paris Festival, Chopin Festival in Nohant, Paderewski Festival in Raleigh in the USA. His performance met with enthusiastic reviews which pinpointed: perfect combination of the freshness of youth with an excellent technique and a deep understanding of music which he performs.

Jakub Kuszlik

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.

Piotr Alexewicz

Born in 2000. He was a student of prof. dr hab. Paweł Zawadzki in Karol Szymanowski Music School in Wrocław. Since he was a child he has participated in pianist com- petitions in the country and abroad. He won numerous awards, among others: Fontys Hoogschool in Tilburg Award at the International Pianist Competition of Anton Rubinstein in Düsseldorf, Grand Prix, Musideco Prize and the Award of the Public at the 3 rd International Pianist Competition in Ville de Gagny (Gagny-Paris). In 2017 he won the prize for the best performance of the concert at 48th. Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Gdańsk. He also won the Prize of "Golden Parnas 2018" at XIII-th International Pianist Forum "Bieszczady Boundaryless." He gave numerous concerts in the country and abroad.

Concerts

Krakow 27.07.2018 – CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE ul. Meiselsa 17, 19.00

Judaica Foundation Center for Jewish Culture

GRACE MENG & MINDY YAO
Debussy : Petite Suite: "En Bateau", 4 hands

SAFI ROUHI
Ph. Rameau : Gavotte et six Doubles (from Suite in a minor)

WILLY LAN
S .Bach : Prelude & Fugue in b minor #24, Book 2
Ch. Griffes : White Peacock

JESSICA CHUDNOVSKY
Chopin : Nouvelle étude #1 in f minor , Waltz in c-sharp minor op. 64#2

KIMBERLY LIU
Rachmaninoff : Prelude in G major op.32#5
Kapustin : Sonata #6 op 62, first mouvement

RILEY COOK
L. van Beethoven : Sonata in e minor op. 90, first movement: Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck
Rachmaninoff : Étude-tableau in E-flat minor op 39#5

MICHAEL WIERENGA
Frédéric Chopin : Etude in c sharp minor Op.25 No.7, Etude in a minor Op.25 No.11

MIKHAEL V TORUSHIN
Alexander Scriabin : Etude in b flat minor Op.8 No.11 , Etude in d sharp minor Op.8 No.12

JULIANA JING (USA)
Frédéric Chopin : Mazurka in G major Op.50 No.1 Ballade in A flat major Op.47

Krakow 28.07.2018 – Krakow Piano Summer Japanese Participants at the Japanese Cultural Center MANGGHA, ul. Marii Konopnickiej 26, 19.00

Piano recital Reina Wada

Ludwik van Beethoven : Sonata d-moll op.31 nr. 2 "Tempest - Burza"
1. Largo-Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Allegretto

Franz Liszt: Tarantella di Bravura

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Fryderyk Chopin : Ballada g-moll op.23

Fryderyk Chopin : Andante spianato I Wielki Polonez Es-dur op.22

Kozaburo Hirai: Fantazja “Sakura-Sakura”

Krakow 29.07.2018 – CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE, ul. Meiselsa 17, 19.00

New generation of polish pianists. Piano recital Kamil Pacholec

Frédéric CHOPIN
- Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22
- Mazurkas, Op. 24:
No. 1 in g minor
No. 2 in C major No. 3 in A flat major No. 4 in b flat minor

- Polonaise in d minor, Op. 71 No.1

- Sonata No.3 in b-minor, Op. 58:
Allegro maestoso
Molto vivace
Largo
Finale. Presto non tanto

Krakow 30.07.2018 CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE ul. Meiselsa 17 19.00

New generation of polish pianists. Piano recital Piotr Alexewicz

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) : Prelude in c sharp minor for the left hand, Op.9 No.1

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) : Nocturne in F sharp major, Op.15 No.2

Lowell Liebermann (1961-) : Nocturne Op.38 No.4

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) : Variations sérieuses Op.54

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) : Sonata in b flat minor

Krakow 01.08.2018 – KLUB 6 BRYGADY POWIETRZNODESANTOWEJ, ul. Zyblikiewicza 1, 19.00

Participants concert

SAFI ROUHI
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) : Sonata in B minor Hob.XVI:32
1. Allegro moderato
2. Menuetto
3. Finale. Presto

RILEY COOK
George Gershwin (1898-1937) : Prelude

MICHAEL WIERENGA
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) : Etude in C sharp minor Op.25 No.7, Etude in A minor Op.25 No.11

MISHA VTORUSHIN
Benjamin LEES (1924-2010) : Fantasia for Piano

JESSICA CHUDNOWSKY
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) : Valse in C sharp minor Op.64 No.2
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) : The Cat & The Mouse

ANDREW YANG
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) : Klavierstücke Op.119, No.3 and No.4

KIMBERLY LIU
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) : Ballade in G minor Op.23

TIMOTHY JONES
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) : Etude in B flat minor Op.4 No.3 Franz Liszt (1811-1886) : Transcendental Etude "Mazeppa"

BRENDA BRUCE
Imrovisations on Famous American Broadway Tunes

Krakow 02.08.2018 – CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE, ul. Meiselsa 17, 19.00

New generation of polish pianists. Piano recital Jakub Kuszlik

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) : Fantasia in B major Op.77

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) : Images, book II
- Cloches à travers les feuilles
- Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut - Poissons d'or

Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) : Dances Polonaises Op.9, No.6, Polonaise in B major

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Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) : Polonaise in f sharp minor op. 44, Fantaisie in f minor op. 49

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) : Sonata No.3 in a minor op. 28

Krakow 03.08.2018 – ŻELEŃSKI MUSIC SCHOOL CONCERT HALL, ul. Basztowa 9

18:00 Recital 1: Andrew Yang

Frédéric Chopin : Nocturne in C minor Op. 48

Johannes Brahms : 4 Klavierstücke Op. 119
1. Intermezzo in B minor. Adagio;
2. Intermezzo in E minor. Andantino un poco agitato,
3. Intermezzo in C major. Grazioso e giocoso,
4. Rhapsodie in E flat major. Allegro risoluto

Myung Hwang Park : Echoes from no man's lake (2018, European premiere)

L. van Beethoven : Sonata in C major, Op. 53, "Waldstein"
1. Allegro con brio
2. Introduzione. Adagio
3. Rondo. Allegretto

19:00 Recital 2: Timothy Jones

Frédéric Chopin : Nocturne in C sharp minor Op. 27 No. 1

A. Mozart : Sonata in F major K.533/494
1. Allegro, 2. Andante, 3. Rondo

Robert Schumann : Fantasie in C major Op.17
1st mouvement: Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen

Karol Szymanowski : Prelude in B minor Op.1 No.1
Etude in E flat minor Op.4 No.3

Franz Liszt : Transcendental Etude: "Mazeppa"

Krakow 05.08.2018 – CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE, ul. Meiselsa 17, 19.00

Center for Jewish Culture

MIKHAEL VTORUSHIN (USA)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) : English Suite No.3 in g minor BWV 808 - Prelude

SAFI ROUHI (USA)
Jozef Haydn (1732-1809) : Sonate in b minor Hob.XVI:32
1. Allegro moderato
2. Menuetto
3.Finale. Presto

KIMBERLY KIM (USA)
Sergiusz Rachmaninow (1873-1943) : Preludium G-dur op.32 nr 5
Judith Zaimont (1945) Jupiter's Moons : Ganymede

JESSICA CHUDNOVSKY (USA)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) : Preludes op.34
No.2 in a minor No.16 in b flat minor No.17 in A flat major

JULIANA JING (USA)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) : Estampes: 1.Pagodes

WILLY LAN (USA)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) : Images book 2: Poissons d'or

ANDREW YANG (USA)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) : Sonate No.21 in B flat major, D.960
3.Scherzo Allegro vivace con delicatezza
4.Allegro ma non troppo

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RILEY COOK (USA)
Robert Schumann (1809-1856) : Ghost Variations in E flat major WoO 24
1.Theme Leise, innig
2. Variation I
3. Variation II – Canonisch
4. Variation III - Etwas belebter
5. Variation IV
6. Variation V

MICHAEL WIERENGA (USA)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) : Etiuda "La Campanella"
Paganini (1782-1840)

REINA WADA (JAPAN)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) : Tarantella di Bravura

TIMOTHY JONES (USA)
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1949) : Sonate No.3 in b minor op.58
3. Largo
4.Finale. Presto non tanto

Silesian Beethoven Festival

The most important music event in Głogówek was associated with the staying German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. It was the only visit the master in Silesia.

Beethoven has arrived to Oberglogau (Głogowek) in the autumn of 1806. In this time Franz Joachim Wenzl Oppersdorff as the eighth owner of the property ruled in the Głogówek’s castle. Joachim Wenzl Oppersdorff loved the music. At the same time, in the castle was an excellent Orchestra which the conductor was Haszke. Specifically for the Beethoven castel’s Orchestra played Symphony II. The concert became the beginning of friendly contacts of the composer and count. During his stay at the local Castle Beethoven played himself on several occasions. He also works on the 5th Symphony in C minor, op. 67. The host ordered for 500 guilders. However, difficult material conditions have forced Beethoven in the meantime to resell the ordered work to someone else. From this time also preserved correspondence be- tween Beethoven and Oppersdorff. In 1808 was completed the IV Symphony in B-dur op. 60, which originated during the stay of the composer in Silesia. The latter, Beethoven dedicated was for count after two years, posting the name of the Oppersdorffa to score. Manuscript compositions is today in the possession of the last of living in Bad Homburg in Germany.

Glogowek 07.08.2018 – BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL HALL, 18.00

Guest Concert by Participants

MUSIQUE OF L.VAN BEETHOVEN
& MUSIQUE OF THE 20th CENTURY
by KRAKOW PIANO SUMMER INTERNATIONAL SOLOISTS

Krakow 09.08.2018 – KLUB 6 BRYGADY POWIETRZNODESANTOWEJ ul. Zyblikiewicza 1, 19.00

Final concert

OPEN PROGRAM AUDIENCE SELECTION

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