"Polish Music Scene" Filharmonia Narodowa

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"Polish Music Scene"

22.03.2022
Tuesday / 19:00
Chamber Music Hall
40 zł
Polish Music Scene, Chamber Music
Performers:
Michał Francuz
piano
Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński
Dwa mazurki op. 37 [6']
Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński
Dwa nokturny op.24 [12']
Władysław Żeleński
II Sonata fortepianowa op.20 [30']
Mieczysław Weinberg
Piano Sonata No. 4, Op. 56 [25']

The Polish Music Scene is a programme of music organised by the National Institute of Music and Dance in collaboration with the Warsaw Philharmonic and financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

The main purpose of the programme is to promote Polish artists as well as works of Polish music, especially those that are less commonly found in concert programmes, while its particular objectives are: to promote the performance of Polish music, to inspire musicians to prepare concert programmes featuring Polish music and to arouse public interest in Polish music, especially lesser-known pieces.

The programme is open to instrumentalists and singers – soloists and chamber ensembles.

The programmes featuring Polish music, selected via a competition, will be performed in the Chamber Music Hall of the Warsaw Philharmonic, as well as at other concert venues around Poland.

Co-organisers
Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Narodowy Instytut Muzyki i Tańca
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Michał Francuz

piano

A versatile and charismatic artist, constantly searching for new horizons, Michał Francuz is a concert pianist, chamber musician and teacher. His piano playing is distinguished by impeccable technique, musical imagination and expressive power. For over twenty years, he has been performing in symphonic and chamber concerts as well as recitals in Poland and abroad. He is known to audiences in most European countries, as well as in the United States, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, India and Vietnam.

Michał Francuz was born in 1980 in Szczecin. He is a graduate of the Feliks Nowowiejski State Music School in Szczecin and the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. He teaches piano at his alma mater and is also the deputy head of the Department of Piano Chamber Music.

He has participated in many international music festivals, such as La Folle Journée, Cinquième Festival Culturel International de Musique Symphonique in Algeria, Lubomirski Festival, International Festival ‘Music on the Heights’ in Zakopane, International Music Festival Sacrum Non Profanum, Rzeszów Music Autumn, Ignacy Jan Paderewski International Festival, Poznań Music Spring, Szczecin Classic and the International Festival ‘Chopin in the Colours of Autumn’. He has performed many times at the Birthplace of Fryderyk Chopin in Żelazowa Wola and at the Łazienki Park in Warsaw. In 2015, he made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York.

In 2019, Michał Francuz and Bartłomiej Nizioł released a joint album, Polish Violin Sonatas, which began a series of recordings of all sonatas for violin and piano by Polish composers. In 2020, together with Joanna Konarzewska and Rafał Kwiatkowski, he recorded an album featuring piano trios by Władysław Żeleński and Grzegorz Fitelberg, as well as the world premiere of a trio by Apolinary Szeluto. With the Silesian Quartet, he recorded Żeleński’s piano trios and quartets. Michał Francuz was the official pianist of the 15th and 16th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań. He has made numerous recordings for Polish Radio and TVP.
 

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