9th Krakow Piano Summer 2023

Director

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”.

– Wojciech Kocyan was praised for his “highly distinctive performances (…) superb, intelligent artistry (…)” (.Classics Today.com) and “incisive temperament, impeccable technique and sumptuous tone” (Le Monde de la Musique.)
He was born in Poland. He studied with two of the world’s most esteemed piano pedagogues: Andrzej Jasinski in Poland, where he received his Masters Degree and with John Perry at the University of Southern California, where he received a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree.

He is a laureate of several international piano competitions, including F. Busoni and Viotti, as well as a special prizes winner of the XI International Chopin Competition and the First Prize winner of the Paderewski Piano Competition.

He performed in Europe, America, Australia and Japan, participating in music festivals such as Musica Antiqua Europae Orientalis, Capri Festival, Bydgoszcz International Music Festival, H. M. Gorecki Festival, Beethoven fest, Paderewski Festival, Liszt Festival in Vienna and the Chopin Festival in Paris. He has recorded for television, radio and film and his performances were broadcast in Europe, United States and Australia.

He has been invited to give masterclasses in France, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Mexico, Japan and United States. He is the Artistic Director of the Paderewski Music Society in Los Angeles, the Artistic Director of the American International Paderewski Piano Competition in Los Angeles and serves on boards of several other music organizations.

Venetian born pianist Gloria Campaner is regarded as one of the most interesting and versatile italian pianists of her generation, she is laureate of the Paderewski International Piano Competition in Los Angeles. Her innovative performances all over the world place her side by side with jazz and folk musicians, choreographers, modern dancers, visual artists, actors, writers, philosophers, comedians, DJs and electronic music producers.

Studied with Bruno Mezzena, Konstantin Bogino, and Fany Solter. After her Carnegie Hall débuts in 2010, Gloria’s music making has gained a recognized world-wide status. Recent highlights include tours in all the continents: Europe, China, Japan, South Africa, Armenia, Lebanon, USA, Israel, Latin America, India, Easter Island.

She collaborated with English Chamber Orchestra, Baden-Baden Philharmony, Süd-Deutsche Philharmonie, Seoul Philharmony, AfiA Orchestra of Tokyo, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra performing in London’s Cadogan Hall, Los Angeles Philharmony, Salzburg Mozarteum, NCPA Beijing, Kioi Hall Tokyo, Paris Salle Cortot, Warsaw & Krakow Philharmony, Vilnius Philharmonie, Arena di Verona, Berlin Philharmonic, La Scala, Royal Concertgebouw, Accademia di Santa Cecilia and Metropolitan Opera of New York and regularly performs with Polish jazz pianist Leszek Możdżer.

Gloria was named European Ambassador for Culture (2010-2011) and artist in residence at Marlboro Festival USA.

Involved in music-awareness education around the world she founded her own educational project named C# – See Sharp: a creativity workshop for young musicians and performing artists.

He performed in Europe, America, Australia and Japan, participating in music festivals such as Musica Antiqua Europae Orientalis, Capri Festival, Bydgoszcz International Music Festival, H. M. Gorecki Festival, Beethoven fest, Paderewski Festival, Liszt Festival in Vienna and the Chopin Festival in Paris. He has recorded for television, radio and film and his performances were broadcast in Europe, United States and Australia.

He has been invited to give masterclasses in France, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Mexico, Japan and United States. He is the Artistic Director of the Paderewski Music Society in Los Angeles, the Artistic Director of the American International Paderewski Piano Competition in Los Angeles and serves on boards of several other music organizations.

Born and raised in California (U.S.A.), Andrew Yang follows an active international performance career across Europe, the United States, Canada, and Asia.

He founded the Iceland Piano Festival.

Yang has won several prizes from international piano competitions and performed include at the Mozarthaus Vienna), Harpa Reykjavík, Musiikkitalo Helsinki, Judaica Foundation Krakow, Murphy Recital Hall Los Angeles, Hoheikan Japan, and New York venues Victor Borge Hall, Carnegie Hall.

His teachers and musical mentors include William Wellborn, Antoinette Perry, Adam Wibrowski, Dang Thai Son, Ruth Slenczynska.

Harpsichord

Brenda is a pianist and harpsichordist. She gradu-
ated from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Her main teacher was David Barnett, who had studied with Alfred Cortot. She was thoroughly groomed in Chopin and important composers.

For the early music was very active in Boston, her curiosity made her interested to study harpsichord. Her first teacher was Helen Kearney, later intensely with Mark Kroll. She maintains an active studio and continues performing.

Improvistation & Piano Jazz

An outstanding pianist, composer and producer, Leszek Możdżer is widely considered to be Polish Jazz’s greatest revelation of the last decade. Born in 1971, he has been playing the piano since the age of five. He completed every stage of formal education until graduating in 1996 from the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk. He became interested in jazz relatively late – in his last grade – when he was 18. One year later he received an individual award at the International Jazz Competition Jazz Juniors ’92 held in Cracow. He was also a member of the Zbigniew Namysłowski Quartet. In the poll organized among Jazz Forum readers Możdżer was chosen as the Most Promising Musician of the year 1993 and 1994, and the Best Jazz Pianist – in each consecutive year since 1994. Leszek was also many times honored as The Musician of the Year.

On many occasions Leszek Możdżer recorded music with Zbigniew Preisner (Requiem for my friend, 10 easy pieces for piano). He also works on a regular basis with Jan Kaczmarek, Polish composer living in LA, while recording music scores (for 20th Century Fox and Miramax).

Możdżer has also performed and recorded with many internationally acclaimed musicians, including David Friesen, Pat Metheny, Arthur Blythe, Buster Williams, Billy Harper, Joe Lovano, Archi Shepp, David Liebman, Charles Fox, Lester Bowie, David Gilmour, Marcus Miller, John Scofield, Steve Swallow, Eddie Daniels and Tan Dun.

Since 2011 Leszek Możdżer has been the Artistic director of the music festival, Enter Music Festival, held annually in Poznań. He has recorded over 100 albums.

Leszek Możdzer’s new activities include jazz and classical improvisation courses, which he offered as part of Krakow Piano Summer 2023.

Saturday July 22 15h / 3 pm - Ojców, Park Zdrojowy
W ramach Festiwalu Chopin w Ojcowie
Adam Wibrowski: Chopina wyprawy w naturę. Mazowsze - Ojców - Nohant - Majorka

Sunday July 23 12h / 12 am - Ojców, Park Zdrojowy
W ramach Festiwalu Chopin w Ojcowie,
Koncert uczestników Kraków Piano Summer: Emma, Maya i John Slaughter, Peyton Yang

Sunday July 23d 17h / 5 pm - Sala Fontany, Pałac Krzysztofory, Rynek Główny 35
Adam Wibrowski: „Julian Fontana u Baltazara Fontany”

Wednesday July 26th 19h / 7 pm - Sala Fontany, Pałac Krzysztofory, Rynek Główny 35
Mateusz Dubiel (Poland) - Recital

Saturday July 29th 17h / 5 pm - Dębno Castle near Brzesko
Kraków Piano Summer Artists - Concert

Sunday July 30th 19h / 7 pm - Sala Fontany, Pałac Krzysztofory, Rynek Główny 35
Jim - Isaac Chua (USA - Filipiny) - Recital

Saturday - Monday July 29 - 31th - Żeleński Music School, ul. Basztowa 9
Creative Academy by Gloria Campaner (Italy) and Istituto Italiano di Cultura

Friday August 8th - Hotel Saski, Music Salon, ul. Sławkowska 3
Creative Academy Artists - Concert

Tuesday August 8th 17h / 5 pm - Sala koncertowa Fazioli, Jastrzębie Zdrój
Kraków Piano Summer Artists - Concert

Wednesday August 9th 19h / 7 pm - Sala Fontany, Pałac Krzysztofory, Rynek Główny 35
Frederic Vaysse-Knitter (France) - Recital

This workshop offers useful tools and good practices for emotional care, to face stage fright and to overcome the stress caused by any public performance.

You will be able to interact, experiment and practice with different breathing techniques; brainstorming and embodiment; fundamentals of yoga and self-perception; stretching and mindful meditation.

I invented the C# SEE SHARP LAB to help you overcome loneliness, anxiety, stage fright, and to express your creativity. The joy of art is a sharing workshop, a gym for emotions and a place where the keywords are: focus, look beyond, observe clearly, welcome mistakes as a source of uncountable opportunities, find the courage to get lost and leave your routine.

After years spent in the backstage of many theaters around the world, I realized that emotional care requires diligent and rigorous study. This training must be added to the one with which we nourish our talent and our abilities every day. Usually, while facing an audience, performing live, discussing a thesis, holding a concert or a speech, acting, participating in the competition, or sustaining an important job interview generates un inevitable psychophysical stress, accompanied by many turbulent emotions.

Fear cannot be completely overcome, but you can certainly deal with it by observing it from every direction, becoming familiar with its symptoms and accepting even its darkest shades.

Initially, I designed this workshop for musicians but then I improved it to help also those who are looking for tools to make the best of any kind of performance.

Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)
- Suita angielska nr 2 a-moll
I. Prelude - II. Allemande - III. Courante - IV. Sarabande - V. Bourree 1 - VI. Bourree 2 - VII. Gigue

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791)
- Sonata D-dur KV 311
I. Allegro con spirito - II. Andantino con espressione - III. Rondeau

Aleksander SKRIABIN (1971-1915)
- Sonata-Fantazja nr 2 gis-moll
I. Andante - II. Presto

Fryderyk CHOPIN (1810-1849)
- Barkarola Fis-dur op. 60
- 4 Mazurki op. 41
e-moll
H-dur
As-dur
cis-moll
- Scherzo E-dur op. 54

ANDREW WOOD
Fryderyk CHOPIN (1810-1849) : Ballada F-dur op. 35
George WALKER (Washington 1922 - New Jersey 2018) : Prelude and Caprice

DARIAN LIU
Jan Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) : Preludium i fuga b-moll BWV 893
Franciszek LISZT (1811-1886) : Etiuda transcendentalna „Wilde Jagd”

JESSE DISTILLER
Franciszek SCHUBERT (1797-1828) : Impromptu As-dur op.90 nr 4
Bela BARTOK (1881-1945) : Taniec rumuński op.8a nr 1

JAKUB URGOŁ
Ludwik van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) : Sonata C-dur op. 2 nr 3 , cz.II , cz.IV
Stefan KISIELEWSKI (1911-1991) : Toccata

JULIAN LUCE - BARACEROS
Franciszek LISZT (1811-1886) : Etiuda „Poszumy leśne”
Aleksander SKRIABIN (1871-1915) : Etiuda dis-moll op.8 nr 12 „Patetyczna”

BARTOSZ WĄTROBA
Fryderyk CHOPIN (1810-1849) : Impromptu Ges-dur op. 51

PEYTON YANG
: Tarantela op.34

EMMA SLAUGHTER
MAYA SLAUGHTER
JOHN SLAUGHTER
Carl CZERNY (1791-1857) : Polonaise Brillante op.296 na trzech pianistów, sześć rąk

Domenico SCARLATTI (1685-1757)
- Sonata G-dur K.455

Jean-Philippe RAMEAU (1683-1764)
- Le Rappel des Oiseaux
- La Poule

Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937)
- Gaspard de la Nuit : Ondine

Julian FONTANA (1810-1869)
- Fantasie brillante op. 14 na motywach z opery „Lunatyczka” Vincenza Belliniego

Fryderyk CHOPIN (1810-1849)
- Polonez A-dur op. 40 nr 1 (dedicated by Chopin to Julian Fontana)

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Fryderyk CHOPIN (1810-1849)
- Nokturn Fis-dur op. 15 nr 2
- Preludia op.28 : nr 8 fis-moll, nr 15 Des-dur, nr 16 b-moll

Franciszek LISZT (1811-1886)
- Reminiscences de Don Juan

Ignacy Jan PADEREWSKI (1860-1941)
- Krakowiak

Fryderyk CHOPIN (1810-1849)
- Impromptu Fis-dur op. 36
- Ballade f-moll op. 52
- Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante Es-dur op. 22

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Edward GRIEG (1843-1907)
- Wesele w Troldhaugen op. 65 nr 6

Eric SATIE (1866-1925)
- Gnossienne nr 1

Claude DEBUSSY (1852-1918)
- Reflets dans l'eau (Odblaski w wodzie)
- Poissons d'or (Złote rybki)
- La cathedrale engloutie (Zatopiona katedra)
- L'ile joyeuse (Wyspa radości)