8th Krakow Piano Summer 2022
8th Krakow Piano Summer July 28 – August 11, 2022
Marcelina Czartoryska in memoriam 2022
Professors
Adam Wibrowski
Professor, Conservatoire de Paris
Pianist and Professor Emeritus of the Paris Conservatory and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Former advisor to the Ministries of Culture in Poland and France. Author of the European program „The Piano as a Reflection of European Cultures”. Founder of the „Chopin Festival of Nohant” (France). Founder and Artistic Director of „Paderewski Days in New York”, „Paderewski Festival of Raleigh” (USA) and „Krakow Piano Summer”.
Guest professor Antoinette Perry
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Antoinette Perry, born into a family of professional musicians, gave her first public performance at the age of four. Since then she has concertized extensively throughout the United States, Germany, France, England, and in over 15 cities of the People's Republic of China. She has been heard often on NPR and the Bravo! Channel, and has recorded for the Crystal, Harmonie, Pacific Rainbow, Pacific Serenades, Excelsior, and Navona/PARMA labels. Her first solo album, "Beethoven Bookends," was released under the Navona LIVE/PARMA label in 2021.
Artist-faculty Emeritus at the Aspen Music Festival and School, Ms. Perry performed in over 100 concerts during her 25-year tenure. Other festivals include Bravo! International, Lansum International, Zhengzhou International, Saarburg International, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Chamber Music Sedona, Ojai Festival, Taipei International, 20th Century Unlimited in Santa Fe, and the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, among others.
As a chamber musician, Ms. Perry has collaborated with many of the world's greatest artists, including John Perry, Leon Fleisher, Brooks Smith, Ralph Kirshbaum, Ronald Leonard, David Shifrin, Eugene Fodor, Henri Temianka, Joachin Valdepenas, Carol Wincenc, and actors Michael York and Walter Matthau. She has performed with members of the American, Chicago, Cleveland, Emerson, Juilliard, Angeles, Paganini, Sequoia and Takacs String Quartets, with concertmasters of the Chicago Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Hague Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Baltimore Philharmonic, and the Orpheus, Los Angeles and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras, as well as principals of the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, the Gulbenkian and Zurich Tonnehalle Orchestras, the Toronto and San Francisco Symphonies, and the LA, Stuttgart and Saarbrücken Operas. Other collaborators were faculty members at Juilliard, Eastman School, Manhattan School, Peabody Institute, Beijing Central Conservatory, Seoul National University, Glenn Gould Conservatory in Toronto, R.D. Colburn School, the Shepherd School at Rice, and the Universität der Künste in Berlin. In LA she collaborates regularly with members of the USC and UCLA faculties and well as with prominent film industry musicians.
Ms. Perry served on the UCLA piano faculty for 12 years before joining the faculty of the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music in 1996, where she currently teaches. She has given over 200 master classes, most notably at the Eastman School of Music and as artist-in-residence for a week at the Beijing Central Conservatory. Former students are enjoying successful careers as performers and pedagogues throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. The California Association of Professional Music Teachers awarded her their 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Her wonderful teachers have included John Perry, Carlo Zecchi, Gilbert Kalish, Richard Goode, Danielle Martin and Richard Angeletti. As a child she was surrounded with the beautiful, rich sounds of her pianist mother, Lillian Haslach Teddlie, her bass-baritone father, Paul Krueger, and later her step-father, baritone Antonio Perez.
Concert Programs
July 29 – Friday – 2022 – 19h – KRZYSZTOFORY PALACE – Muzeum Krakowa – Rynek Główny 35
Piano Recital Federico Gad Crema (Italy)
Domenico SCARLATTI (1685-1757)
Sonata d-moll K.213
Sir Stephen HOUGH (1961- )
Fanfara - Toccata (2022, Polskie prawykonanie)
Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
Images Obrazy (1905), Livre 1 - Cykl I
- Reflets dans l'eau / Odblaski w wodzie
- Hommage a Rameau / Hold dla Rameau
- Mouvement/Ruch
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Fryderyk CHOPIN (1810-1849)
24 PRELUDIA op. 28 (1838-1839)
Federico Gad Crema
Born in Milan in 1999, Italian concert pianist Federico Gad Crema is considered one of the most promising young artists of his generation. Internationally recognized for his emotionally charged interpretations, subtle sensitivity, and supreme artistic depth, he has already performed at some of the most prestigious halls in the world, including Carnegie Hall and Steinway Hall in New York (USA), Teatro alla Scala and Sala Verdi in Milan (Italy), and Teatro Castro Alves in Salvador, Bahia (Brazil).
Winner of numerous prestigious national and international piano competitions in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Greece and the USA, Mr. Crema has recently been awarded 1st Prize and special prize at the renowned CIAD International Piano Competition in 2018, 3rd Prize and special prize at the Casagrande International Piano Competition in 2019, and 2nd Prize, Best Contemporary Piece Award and Audience Award at the Olga Kern International Piano Competition the same year.
Mr. Crema's unique ability to capture audiences all over the world, from France to Japan and from Greece to the USA, has led him to an impressive international career both as a soloist and as a recitalist, attaining remarkable achievements such as his solo debut at Teatro alla Scala in 2018 playing Mozart Piano Concerto n.23 K488, and at Sala Verdi in Milan in 2020 playing Beethoven Piano Concerto n.3 op.37, conducted by Maestro Roberto Abbado. He regularly performs alongside world famous conductors like David Coleman, Kimbo Ishii, Ricardo Castro, and Philippe Gérard, to name a few, and top orchestras such as Orchestra dell'Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, the Neojiba Orchestra, the Symphonic Orchestra of Cannes, the "UNIMI" Orchestra of Milan, the "OSCOM" Symphonic Orchestra of Milan, the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, the New Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bacau and the Chapelle Musicale Orchestra of Tournai, among many others.
In 2017 he began an important collaboration with the French piano-star Jean-Yves Thibaudet, performing at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles. Other significant collaborations include those with Russian pianist Konstantin Bogino.
After graduating summa cum laude from the G. Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan in 2016, he continued his studies at the prestigious Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, and since 2019 he is also a proud recipient of a full scholarship at the Perosi Music Academy for his artistic merits. In 2021 he obtained his Master's Degree at the Conservatory of Music in Milan with high honors, 110 cum laude and special mention, and he has been awarded a prestigious grant from the De Sono Foundation.
On top of developing his musical abilities to the highest level of mastery, Mr. Crema nurtures his passions for conducting and fashion through the important mentorships of Brazilian conductor Ricardo Castro in Geneva and Jean-Yves Thibaudet in Los Angeles.
Mr. Crema proudly wears unique haute couture creations, exclusively made in Italy - fabric by "F.lli Tallia di Delfino".
August 3 – Wednesday – 2022 – 19h – CONCERT HALL Żeleński Music School – Basztowa 9
August 5 – Friday – 2022 – 19h – KRZYSZTOFORY PALACE Muzeum Krakowa – Rynek Główny 35
Piano Recital Eric Guo (Canada)
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
Sonata nr 6, F-dur op.10 nr 2
- Allegro
- Allegretto
- Presto
Siergiej RACHMANINOW (1873-1943)
Sonata nr 2, b-moll op. 36 (1°1913/2°1931)
- Allegro agitato
-Non allegro – Lento
-L'istesso tempo - Allegro molto
Ignacy PADEREWSKI (1860-1941)
Polonez H-dur op.9 nr 6
Karol KURPIŃSKI (1785-1857)
Polonez d-moll
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Ignacy PADEREWSKI (1860-1941)
Legenda
Fryderyk CHOPIN (1810 - 1849) : 3 Mazurki op.59
- a-moll
-As-dur
- fis-moll
Polonez-Fantazja As-dur op. 61
Eric Guo
Born in Toronto, Canada, on 1 August 2002 started piano at 4 years old. He is currently a student of Prof. John O'Conor in 2nd Year Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance (Honours) at The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada.
He is top prize-winner of international competitions, including the Piano Texas Concerto Competition, Minnesota e-Piano, Hastings Concerto Competition, Moscow Chopin Competition and Canadian Chopin Competition.
He was the sole recipient of the 2018 Canadian Chopin Scholarship and was named one of the 2019 CBC 30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians Under 30.
He was a participant in the 18th Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland in October 2021 and was a finalist in 2021 XVII concours International Grand Prix Animato Chopin held in Paris.
He has performed at prestigious venues such as Salle Cortot hall and Bibliothèque Polonaise in Paris, Chopin's Birthplace in Żelazowa Wola, the Chopin Museum in Warsaw, Merkin Concert Hall in New York (aired on WQXR), North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh USA, Koerner Hall in Toronto, among many others.
He has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Fort Worth Symphony, Minnesota Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Russia's Ural Youth Symphony, Italy's Brescia Master Orchestra, Canada's Drummondville Symphony, etc. He has performed at The 8th 2021 Paderewski Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA and has participated in many festivals and courses, including Radziejowice, Italy's Brescia, Italy's Piano Academy Eppan, Piano Texas, Miami's Frost Chopin, California's Music@Menlo, Cincinnati's Art of the Piano, Philadelphia's Curtis Summerfest, Seattle Piano Institute, Orford Musique, etc.
August 9 – Tuesday – 2022 – 19:00 – CONCERT HALL Żeleński Music School – Basztowa 9
