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The
9th International Summer Piano 'Idea-Image-Technique' Workshops -
Master Courses in Rzeszow-2009, were organized by The 'K. Szymanowski' College of Music
in Rzeszow, 'A. Malawski' State Philharmonic
in Rzeszow, J. Hofmann
Music Society in Wroclaw and the T. Leschetizky Music
Society in Warsaw. Once again this event had received the Honorary Patronage of A Mayor of the City of Rzeszów - Honorable Sir
Organizational
Patronage this year had been offered by the most musically oriented Company
Worldwide - TABLITEK.
Media Patronage offered us Gazeta Codzienna, TVP-Rzeszow and the POLISH RADIO-Rzeszow;
financially supported us the four local Firms - POLFA, GREINPLAST, ZETO and CAFARDINI. THANK YOU VERY MUCH -
our Honorable Patrons and Benefactors!
• Our Workshops were held between the 6th
and the 14th of July 2010. Just as in 2009, the classes and a final concert of
soloists took place in the building of 'Karol
Szymanowski' College of Music, Chopin Str. 32 in Rzeszow; some activities
- thanks to the hospitality of our hosts - were held in the
building of the Institute of Music, which is a department of the Rzeszow
University. Rehearsals for the gala concert and the concert itself, due to
the ongoing renovation of the Philharmonic barton, were also realized in the
concert hall of the Institute of Music.
Institute of Music, Concert Hall; University of Rzeszow.
Musical part of the
inauguration were played our Dear Participants: Faisal
Al-Bahairi (Kuwait) - F. Liszt, Transcendental Etude Eroica, Tomasz Zając (Poland) - F. Chopin Bolero, and Łukasz Chrzęszczyk
(Poland), who - being accompanied by Krzysztof Trzaskowski, his
colleague from the Prof. Piotr Paleczny's
class in UFCh - played the Shostakovich's
Concertino in A Minor, and after then partnered his colleague in the
two-piano version of the famous Alborada
del Grazioso of M. Ravel. • Professor Jerzy
Sterczyński, Dean of the Piano and Organ Department at the University of
Frederic Chopin in Warsaw was A Very Special Guest
of our Workshop 2010.
Generally... • The IX
th edition of the Workshop was attended by young pianists from the Poland,
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Japan, USA, Kuwait, Finland and Singapore: Faisal Al-Bahairi (Kuwait), Sabina Bury (Rzeszów, Poland), Kamil
Borkowski (Warsaw, Poland), Łukasz Chrzęszczyk (Warsaw, Poland), Michal Direr (Bratislava/Slovakia),
Agnieszka Długołęcka (Opole, Poland), Aleksandra Górska (Bielsk Podlaski, Poland), Paulina Horajska
(Katowice, Poland), Hanna Jasińska (Bydgoszcz, Poland), Anna Kaczmarek
(Warsaw, Poland), Małgorzata Kapica (Syców, Poland), Michalina Knapik
(Katowice, Poland), Jan Kochmański (Rzeszów, Poland), Beata Kolatek (Czech
Republic), Agnieszka Kopeć (Łańcut, Poland), Przemysław Korcyl (Cracow,
Poland), Jakub Koterba (Siedlce, Poland), Klaudia Kudełko (Zamość, Poland),
Franciszek Kutrzeba (Finland), Justyna Maciejewska (Opole, Poland), Wiktor
Marcinkowski (Wrocław, Poland), Zofia Mazurkiewicz (Wrocław, Poland), Karol
Mojsiewicz (Szczecin, Poland), Grzegorz Nowak (Cracow, Poland), Anna Parkita
(Kielce, Poland), Eliza Pawłowska (Konin, Poland), Mateusz Podleśny
(Finland), Martyna Rodzeń (Rzeszów, Poland), Aleksandra Rząsa (Rzeszów,
Poland), Aleksandra Seredyńska (Rzeszów, Poland), Anna Smith (USA), Paweł
Sobowiec (Warsaw, Poland), Anna Sokołowska (Wrocław, Poland), Adrian Sowa
(Rzeszów, Poland), Shoko Tayama-Janssen (Japan), Mateusz Tomica (Katowice,
Poland), Lin Xiumin (Singapore), Tomasz Zając (Gdynia, Poland), Magdalena
Zębala (Cracow, Poland).
Just as in 2009, we lived in perfect conditions in DS Alchemik, being fed
tasty and healthy by the academic lunch bar. Refurbishment of the Philharmonic Hall and the construction of
new parking hindered us a little life, but ... What counts, is the objective
that justifies the use of even such a heavy technical measures...!
Here appeared many new as well,
as many well-known "old" faces...
Beata Kolatek
(Czech Republic), Janek Kochmanski (Rzeszów, Poland).
Mateusz Podlesny (Finland) and Przemek Korcyl
(Cracow, Poland); Mateusz Tomica
(Katowice, Poland).
On the set - from the left: Anna Smith (USA) and Shoko Tayama-Jenssen
(Japan/USA), followed closely by Franek Kutrzeba (Finland / Sweden); behind
him - Michal Direr (Slovakia).
Entering the school: "a strong
group" - Faisal Al-Bahairi (Kuwait), ahead of him is Lin
Xiumin (Singapore), in the
middle - discreetly - Dominik Żarnowiecki (Kielce, Poland); on the other
photo: Magda Zebala (Cracow, Poland).
Justyna Maciejewska and Agnieszka Długołęcka came from Opole; on the
right side photo - Ania Sokolowska (Wrocław, Poland) with her colleague, who
participated in the Pedagogic Seminar only.
Wiktor Marcinkowski (Wrocław, Poland) came to Rzeszow with his Mom. "Others" - tend to be visited by their Moms...
For the author of this page Michasia Knapik (Katowice, Poland) became
the extremely joyful discovery! On the right: Eliza Pawlowska (Konin, Poland)
in conversation with already so much enough photographed Tomek Zajac (Gdynia,
Poland), that this time we dare to publish the totally new frame of him... For
several reasons we are not able to put too many photos on this site. First:
this site is not to be the complete "Encyclopedia of Workshop
Idea-Image-Technique, Rzeszów 2010", but rather the concise information
on the Workshop's drive. And two: we do not ever have the enough extensive
iconographic material...
We work ...
Prof. Jerzy Sterczyński
during lesson with Magda Zebala.
Olga Łazarska on the
pedagogic fire...
Prof. Oksana Rapita and Ola
Seredyńska.
Wiktor Marcinkowski explores
mysteries of improvisation under the watchful eyes and ears of Kasia Stankowska.
Dr. Michal Szczepanski and
Agnieszka Długołęcka.
Prof.
Hubert
Rutkowski listens to Chopin's Ballade
in G minor - Grzegorz Nowak
at the piano.
No secret, in
this world there are problems: Xiumin and Stefan - Shoko seemingly accepts
our plan…
A very important element of
the work - there is a break, for example, the coffee-break. Mrs. Iwona Zając (Tomek's
mom) and Mrs. Anna Tabaczyńska - GOOD SPIRIT of the WORKSHOP - and Prof. Oxana.
Again: no tea! Coffee ...!
Before the classes
will start...!
We are here. The daily snapshot.
Mrs. Anna in an interview
with Michal Szczepanski. Who's waiting on whom...?!
My dear Friends from Kielce
(from the right to left) - Ania Parkita, Dominik Żarnowiecki and Grzes Nowak.
At the table in
the main hall Parents often met participants and guests.
Paulina, a
daughter of our inestimable Dr. Anna Tokarczuk-Knapik, finally arrived...
Mrs. Anna Brachman visited
our Workshop 2010, but - maybe - she becomes the participant at our Pedagogic
Seminars in the future. Mrs. Anna, after diploma from the Academy of Music in
Wroclaw/Poland, actually works as a teacher of the piano in the
famous 'The Szafranek Brothers' College of
Music in Rybnik.
The most important part of our
daily schedule yet - is the lesson (in this photo Ola Gorska and Prof. Oxana
Rapita)...
...and hours of ours own
practicing... (Mateusz).
Sometimes we have to wait
for the instrument (Klaudia and Gregorz).
The thing is, after all,
MOTHER MUST to exchange their views ...!
But Sons: have a critical
look at the world ... Yes. This is Karol.
Positive attitude to
everything?
Let us learn this
from Faisal!
What a title should be given
to this photo? It must be just ... the
very GOOD one!
The "Bohema"...
Traditionally, artistically
ambitious and interesting concerts were continued this year in the club-restaurant "Bohema" placed in building of the Regional House of Culture in Rzeszow.
In 2010, we could listen to a concert performed by the MUMUKI quintet founded by students of
the Fryderyk
Chopin Music University in Warsaw. In the photo above, from left: Kaja Nowak, Łukasz Chrzęszczyk, Mikołaj Stolarski, Karol Nasiłowski, xxx - and Jacek Siemiątkowski. As befits,
xxx is the real Person... - actually - it is Franek
Kutrzeba, who at the invitation of MUMUKI played with them a bravely improvised solo enriching one of the songs
performed by the quintet.
MUMUKI performed at the Workshop on the initiative of truly tireless
music-worker, Lukasz
Chrzeszczyk, who played at the
opening the Shostakovich's Concertino and Ravel's Alborada ... with K. Trzaskowski, after then, the two hours long and very demanding program with
MUMUKI, and at the end - likely as if nothing had happened - performed the 1st Part of the Chopin's Piano concerto
op. 11 in E Minor with the symphonic
orchestra. It really was well-deserved
scholarship Prof. Janina Butor in memoriam, which he was given two years ago; Lukasz is an
excellent pattern for younger generation of the music students, and - as I
think - not only for them...! Sincerest Congratulations!
Getting to become friends with the
Region... It had become a custom in Olsztyn, that our
Participants and Guests from the World become familiarized with the beauty of
the Region, which hosts our Workshops. Beautiful is our sweetheart Poland
and the Subcarpathian region, especially
- wow! In 2010, as it was
proposed by our Organizational Patron, Mr. Bogumił Sobota - we went to the Bieszczady Mountains. Not only to Solina, but to the very heart of the Bieszczady Mountains, to Wołosate - under Tarnica, to the very special Bieszczadian landscapes and to visit the horse farm... Let the
pictures speak for themselves!
Summaries - that is, the concerts ...
As the first guests, into
almost empty Aula are coming Mrs. Zofia Stopińska
from The Polish Radio-Rzeszów and Michal Szczepański.
One of the most brilliant highlight of our concert life at the Workshop in 2009 may be called a perfect performance of the Karol Szymanowski's Myths by Anna Kaczmarek and Pawel Sobowiec (at that time, they both were students of UFC, Warsaw). In 2010 we had the opportunity to listen to their
lively matured and completely wonderful performance of the Sonata for Violin and Piano op 94a of
S. Prokofiev (this recording does not seem to
me to be better, but still is worth listening to have just what-so picture of
the situation). Unfortunately, I do not have photographs of all the
participants who took part in a concert of the soloists. Here are only some of them:
Paulina
Horajska (Katowice, Poland)
Jakub Koterba (Siedlce, Poland)
Mateusz Tomica (Katowice, Poland)
Magdalena Zebala (Cracow, Poland)
Beata Kolatek (Czech Republic)
After a few years' break,
Lin Xiumin (Singapore) came back to our workshop. In the picture: even on
stage, tired but very happy after VERY BIG performance of Liszt's Sonata in B minor.
Symphonic concert... • In 2010, thanks to our Dear Sponsors' generosity - of the City Hall at
the forefront, and because of really cordial approach to the problem
presented by the Subcarpathian
Philharmonic's Management - here the very warm thanks to the Headmistress,
Professor Marta
Wierzbieniec Ph.D. and the entire Team, in 2010 we were able to work in
accordance with the model used in our courses in many previous years: in
parallel with the Workshop for soloists, a group of several participants
could play in a symphony concert with the philharmonic orchestra. This time
the concert conducted by Maestro Slawomir Chrzanowski.
Michal Direr (Bratislava,
Slovakia) - precision and maturity in the 1st part of Concerto in G Major by Joseph Haydn.
Claudia Kudelko (Zamosc,
Poland) - presented very classical approach to the classical music. She
performed the 1st Part of the Concerto
in A major, K.V. 488 by W. A. Mozart.
Sabina Bury (Rzeszow,
Poland) played with the genuine brilliance the 1st Part of the Concerto
in G Minor by F. Mendelssohn.
Lukasz Chrzęszczyk (Warsaw,
Poland) received the truly well deserved flowers after beautiful performance
of the 1st Part of the Concerto in E Minor by F. Chopin. Chopin.
Paweł Sobowiec (Warsaw) presented great brilliance and
bravery in
Andante
Spianato and Grand Polonaise in E flat major, op. 22 by F. Chopin.
After the concert, just a
few more memorable shots ... and?
Goodbye, friends…!
•
Scholarship Prof. Janina Butor in memoriam
is annually granted to one of the participants of our workshops in form of the
right to free participation in the workshops held in the following year. Criteria for the award of scholarship
are as follows: performance at work, the attitude during the workshop and -
in general - the ability to work hard, musicality, understanding of the role
of human solidarity as well, as of solidarity among our pianist - the
professional one...
In the year
2010, the Scholarship
- Prof. Janina Butor in memoriam had been granted the multiple participant
of our workshop, a very talented pianist from Singapore - Mr. Lin Xiumin. Not everyone
knows, but this extremely modest man received the FTCL
Diploma from the Trinity College of Music – a confirmation
of the full academic qualifications in music at the age 11. Famous Glenn
Gould received a similar qualifications in Canada just being 13 years old... Welcome! We would like
to Congratulate our Dear Xiumin and wish Him the very many, very lucky artistic achievements in the
future! This is still not the end here:
In 2010, our very special THANKS for the really
sustained artistic collaboration with our Workshops, have also been addressed to Anna and Pawel Sobowiec: the one-week long studio stay in
Finland had been funded to them by Lidia and Stefan Kutrzeba. In previous years,
the stays of this kind were offered to Marcin Mogiła, Kamil Borkowski
and Lukasz Chrzeszczyk. Warm
Congratulations to Anna and Pawel!
Quo vadis...? Repeating
what was written at this place last year: ending this Workshop 2010 report,
on behalf of Teachers and Participants I would like - once again - to express my to
these all people, who were willing to take a nice, though, not easy effort of
co-organizing this unique project!
Thank
You so much - Dear Bogdan! Thank You so much - Dear Shoko: for your help in
redaction of this page, and - of course - for so active promotion
of our Idea worldwide! I would like to very sincerely wish the Course-Workshop 'Idea-Image-Technique', the return to feelings of gratitude would be repeated within many, many years! Getting as friendly supporters, as - among many others - are Mr. Bogumil Sobota and Mrs. Shoko Tayama-Janssen, the great Chopin's pedagogic idea will surely collect the musicians, who prefer the creative elements in teaching and playing the piano and are able to see The Art of Music in a truly large humanistic perspective. Thank You Very Much, Honorable Friends! I hope,
despite the various obstacles and difficulties, which no one can be protected
from, we will be able viribus UNITIS conquer these obstacles and problems and happily approach
the Jubilee: the Xth edition of our Workshop.
Also in 2011, once again someone will sit at this beautiful
instrument...! There is no other way, ever. We have an Idea, we know - what
kind of an Image we want to create. The
Technique needed for its implementation must also be found ...!
We really do
not assign ourselves the authorship of these successes - it would be
ridiculous! Well, we know very well, how much work and talent are put
into artistic development of our former participants by our
Colleagues–teachers of these young people. However, we are extremely pleased that
even such greatly gifted young pianists who are prosperous artists, still
feel the need to "check up" their quality of their skills on the
basis of our workshop; and they are truly interested in listening to the
opinions given by the specialists who guide the classes in our workshop.. We invite you and your friends also in 2011! WELCOME!
Przemek Korcyl won the 'Irena Rolanowska' Competition in Cracow.
Impressively rich is the
last year competition portfolio of Beata Kolatek: two First Prizes - in Prague (Czech Republic)
and in Italy; awards and honors in others piano solo and chamber music
competitions in the Czech Republic.
Do you recognize this guy on the right side of this photo (in the black shirt)? Yes, he was many times the
participant of our workshop, Pawel
Wakarecy! In autumn 2010
Pawel was the best Polish pianist participating in the XVI International
Frederic Chopin Competition in Warsaw. In the photo, from left: Michal J. Kozlowski, Julia Kociuban, Kasia Stankowska - and Pawel... Our Very Best Congratulations and
Heartfelt Wishes to all these Happy Musicians!
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