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Polish Music Scene
Ciepliński, Bies Duo, photo: Wojciech Grzędziński

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. We present Polish artists and Polish compositions – particularly works not often performed. We wish to promote the performance of Polish music, inspire musicians to turn to this repertoire and generate interest among audiences in Polish musical output as broadly understood. 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 and at other concert venues around Poland.

Co-organised by the National Institute of Music and Dance as part of the Polish Music Scene programme, financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
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Andrzej Ciepliński

Polish clarinettist Andrzej Ciepliński is highly regarded for his original interpretations and extraordinary musical sensitivity. As a soloist, he performs with such orchestras as Sinfonieorchester Basel, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw. Active in chamber music, he has performed with many renowned artist, including Julian Rachlin, Claudio Bohórquez, Janusz Wawrowski, Sào Soulez Larivière, Tymoteusz Bies, Szymon Nehring and Anastasia Kobekina.

Continuing the work of his grandfather, the legendary Polish trombonist Juliusz Pietrachowicz, the artist seeks new means of expression and expands the standard clarinet repertoire by collaborating with composers and creating new arrangements. In 2024, he inaugurated the POLIN Music Festival with a performance of Alex Weiser’s Tles Clarinet Concerto. His debut album Irrberge (DUX, 2022), with his own transcription of Claude Debussy’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, was nominated for the Fryderyk 2023 award.

Andrzej Ciepliński is the recipient of The Kosciuszko Foundation scholarship. As a result, he completed a three-month internship at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, developing one of his original projects – Disturb the Silence, which is a musical story about the history of Jewish musicians from the former Galicia region. Here, David Krakauer, an acclaimed clarinettist, seamlessly blending klezmer, classical and jazz music, became his musical mentor.

Andrzej Ciepliński graduated with distinction from the Hochschule für Musik in Basel (master class by François Benda). He is also a graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice (class of Arkadiusz Adamski) where he was awarded with the Primus Inter Pares title.

 

[2025]

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