Chamber Music Concert - cancelled Filharmonia Narodowa

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Chamber Music Concert - cancelled

Cancelled
25.04.2023
Tuesday / 19:00
Concert Hall
PLN 90-180
Chamber Music
Performers:
Garrick Ohlsson
piano
Maria Machowska
violin
Stanisław Podemski
violin
Marzena Hodyr
viola
Karolina Jaroszewska-Rajewska
cello
Fryderyk Chopin
pieces for solo piano
intermission [15']
Antonín Dvořák
Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81 [39']
Chamber Music Concert - cancelled
Garrick Ohlsson, photo: Bartek Sadowski

Ladies and Gentlemen,
we regret to inform you that the concert scheduled for 25 April 2023 has been cancelled.

Tickets purchased for cancelled concerts are refundable - at the Warsaw Philharmonic box offices or via the bilety24.pl service, if you have made an online purchase.
For more information, please contact bilety@filharmonia.pl

 

It is hard to believe that when the 22-year-old Garrick Ohlsson won the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1970, he had already triumphed in other equally prestigious piano competitions. Moreover, he remains the only American pianist to have won first place in Warsaw. Although thanks to that victory Ohlsson soon became associated chiefly with the music of Chopin, the range of music he has mastered is exceptionally broad. His repertoire numbers more than 80 piano concertos, beginning with the earliest works written in the genre and ending with contemporary works, some of them composed specially for him.

Together with musicians from the Warsaw Philharmonic, he will be performing Antonín Dvořák’s expansive Second Piano Quintet. Known today principally for his symphonic and operatic output, Dvořák was also an excellent composer of chamber music. His impressive output contains around 30 ensemble compositions, more than his contemporary Johannes Brahms. As a violinist himself, he also readily performed chamber music, which he wrote throughout his life. One of his works was composed in unusual circumstances – to celebrate being released from obligatory military service in the Habsburg army!

 

Bartłomiej Gembicki

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Karolina Jaroszewska-Rajewska

cello

One of Karolina Jaroszewska-Rajewska’s most important artistic engagements in recent years was her recital at the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, preceded by a recital at the Warsaw Philharmonic. The New York concert was warmly received by both the audience and critics: “Ms. Jaroszewska is an intuitive musician, with a big boned, extroverted and plush sound at her disposal.[...] Her security in technical matters was abundantly evident [...] she displayed a subtle calibration of dynamics and several different qualities of pizzicato to great musical effect”. (David La Marche for the New York Concert Review).

The artist has been performing in both Poland and abroad with such orchestras as the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio, Savannah Symphony Orchestra, La Crosse Symphony Orchestra and Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra where she is also head of the cello section, as well as with world-renowned musicians, including Agnieszka Duczmal, Anna Duczmal-Mróz, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Gary Karr, Jakub Jakowicz, Georgijs Osokins, Klaudiusz Baran, Julia Samojło, Amy Mills and Maciej Tomasiewicz.

Karolina Jaroszewska-Rajewska appeared at the Europalia Festival in Belgium, the 60th Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój and the Krzysztof Penderecki Festival marking the composer’s 80th birthday. She learned her craft under one of the most outstanding cellists of our times – Zara Nelsova – whom she met as a teenager during the Aspen Music Festival and School. At the invitation of Zara Nelsova, she went to New York where she initially had private classes with the cellist free of charge and subsequently enrolled in the Juilliard School in New York which she graduated with Bachelor and Master of Music diplomas. During her studies, she won admission to the prestigious Gregor Piatigorsky master class in Los Angeles. She also studied with Friedrich-Jürgen Sellheim, Igor Czilipik, Stanisław Firlej and Mischa Maisky.

The artist makes CD recordings and for the Polish Radio and TVP. She received a scholarship from the City of Poznań, the Young Positivist Medal of the Hipolit Cegielski Society and the Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

 

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