Rathaus Festival
MON, NOV 11, 2024
DATE: MON, NOV 11, 2024
TIME: 7:00 PM
In-Person Tickets: FREE by RSVP
The concert at Flushing Town Hall is the third event in the second edition of the "Rathaus Festival." Organized by Queens College/Aaron Copland School of Music and the Polish Chamber Musicians' Association, the festival highlights rare chamber music by emigrant composers who, like Karol Rathaus, forged new artistic paths. Throughout the concerts, audiences can listen to works deeply rooted in diverse cultures, trends, and historical contexts. The Flushing concert will feature a mixed program of six composers: L. Różycki, R. Ryterband, W. Lutosławski, H. M. Górecki, T. Musgrave, and K. Rathaus.
Artist Bios:
Bartosz Koziak
Winner of the 3rd Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition in 2001 in Warsaw, the 2nd prize at the Isang Yun Competition in Tongyeong (Korea) and is a laureate of the Mikola Lysenko International Competition in Kiev. He was awarded a Special Prize at the Prague Spring Competition and was winner of the 1st prize at the 11th International Competition of Contemporary Chamber Music in Kraków. He has also received prizes at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and ARD in Munich. He has performed at the Konzerthaus, Berlin, Rudolfinum, Prague, Cité de la Musique, Paris, Teatro Politeama, Palermo, the Khachaturian Concert Hall, Yerevan and the National Philharmonic in Warsaw. The orchestras he has played with as a soloist include the Polish National Philharmonic, NOSPR, Sinfonia Varsovia, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Concerto Budapest, the Armenian State Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic, the Radio Orchestras in Warsaw and Budapest, the National Orchestra of Ukraine, and has been conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki, Jan Krenz , Antoni Wit, Gabriel Chmura, Jacek Kaspszyk, András Keller, Volodymyr Sirenko and Sergey Smbatayan.
Grzegorz Mania
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Graduated with distinction from the Academy of Music in Kraków and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He also read law at Jagiellonian University, and obtained his Ph.D. for a dissertation about music and copyright law. In 2019 he obtained a post-doctoral degree in the Academy of Music in Kraków. Mania is a versatile pianist, regularly duetting with violist Katarzyna Budnik and pianist Piotr Różański. Mania has appeared at international festivals throughout Poland, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Finland, Austria, Italy, Norway, Iceland, Vietnam, Israel, the United States of America, Cyprus and Ukraine.
Jakub Jakowicz
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He has appeared with many renowned orchestras, including the Warsaw Philharmonic, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Concerto Köln and Munich Philharmonic. He has worked with such conductors as Antoni Wit, Jacek Kaspszyk, Kazimierz Kord, Jan Krenz, Eiji Ōue, Agnieszka Duczmal and Marc Minkowski. As a chamber musician he has played with Heinz Holliger, Paul Gulda, Anna Maria Staśkiewicz, Katarzyna Budnik, Ryszard Groblewski, Avri Levitan, Daniel Möller- Schott, Andrzej Bauer, Marcin Zdunik and Paavali Jumppanen. He has recorded for ECM, Naxos, CD Accord, Dux. He has performed at the Berlin Philharmonic, Wigmore Hall in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and Konzerthaus in Vienna, and also at festivals in Salzburg, Lucerne and Lugano. Jakowicz won violin competitions in Lublin, Wattrelos, France and Takasaki (Japan), as well as an ‘Orpheus’ from the ‘Warsaw Autumn’.
Monika Gardoń-Preinl
Pianist, outstanding specialist in the field of chamber music, long-term academic teacher and accompanist. She has given concerts in the country performing piano concertos with an orchestra and abroad (Germany, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Estonia, Finland). As a chamber musician, she has performed with many outstanding artists from around the world in significant concert halls, also during the most important music festivals (maestro Peter Lukas Graf, Wolfgang Pfistermuller, Magnus Nilsson, Carlsten Svanberg, Robert Kozanek, Nicola Mazzanti, Carlo Colombo, Janos Balint, Wally Hasse, Foroug Karimi Diafar Zadar, Barbara Świątek-Żelazna, Tomasz Sosnowski, Marek Mleczko, Zdzisław Stolarczyk, Zdzisław Piernik, Maciej Łakomy, Grzegorz Mania, Piotr Różański, Maria Sławek, Jakub Jakowicz, Bartosz Koziak and others).
TIME: 7:00 PM
In-Person Tickets: FREE by RSVP
The concert at Flushing Town Hall is the third event in the second edition of the "Rathaus Festival." Organized by Queens College/Aaron Copland School of Music and the Polish Chamber Musicians' Association, the festival highlights rare chamber music by emigrant composers who, like Karol Rathaus, forged new artistic paths. Throughout the concerts, audiences can listen to works deeply rooted in diverse cultures, trends, and historical contexts. The Flushing concert will feature a mixed program of six composers: L. Różycki, R. Ryterband, W. Lutosławski, H. M. Górecki, T. Musgrave, and K. Rathaus.
Artist Bios:
Bartosz Koziak
Winner of the 3rd Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition in 2001 in Warsaw, the 2nd prize at the Isang Yun Competition in Tongyeong (Korea) and is a laureate of the Mikola Lysenko International Competition in Kiev. He was awarded a Special Prize at the Prague Spring Competition and was winner of the 1st prize at the 11th International Competition of Contemporary Chamber Music in Kraków. He has also received prizes at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and ARD in Munich. He has performed at the Konzerthaus, Berlin, Rudolfinum, Prague, Cité de la Musique, Paris, Teatro Politeama, Palermo, the Khachaturian Concert Hall, Yerevan and the National Philharmonic in Warsaw. The orchestras he has played with as a soloist include the Polish National Philharmonic, NOSPR, Sinfonia Varsovia, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Concerto Budapest, the Armenian State Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic, the Radio Orchestras in Warsaw and Budapest, the National Orchestra of Ukraine, and has been conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki, Jan Krenz , Antoni Wit, Gabriel Chmura, Jacek Kaspszyk, András Keller, Volodymyr Sirenko and Sergey Smbatayan.
Grzegorz Mania
Graduated with distinction from the Academy of Music in Kraków and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He also read law at Jagiellonian University, and obtained his Ph.D. for a dissertation about music and copyright law. In 2019 he obtained a post-doctoral degree in the Academy of Music in Kraków. Mania is a versatile pianist, regularly duetting with violist Katarzyna Budnik and pianist Piotr Różański. Mania has appeared at international festivals throughout Poland, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Finland, Austria, Italy, Norway, Iceland, Vietnam, Israel, the United States of America, Cyprus and Ukraine.
Jakub Jakowicz
He has appeared with many renowned orchestras, including the Warsaw Philharmonic, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Concerto Köln and Munich Philharmonic. He has worked with such conductors as Antoni Wit, Jacek Kaspszyk, Kazimierz Kord, Jan Krenz, Eiji Ōue, Agnieszka Duczmal and Marc Minkowski. As a chamber musician he has played with Heinz Holliger, Paul Gulda, Anna Maria Staśkiewicz, Katarzyna Budnik, Ryszard Groblewski, Avri Levitan, Daniel Möller- Schott, Andrzej Bauer, Marcin Zdunik and Paavali Jumppanen. He has recorded for ECM, Naxos, CD Accord, Dux. He has performed at the Berlin Philharmonic, Wigmore Hall in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and Konzerthaus in Vienna, and also at festivals in Salzburg, Lucerne and Lugano. Jakowicz won violin competitions in Lublin, Wattrelos, France and Takasaki (Japan), as well as an ‘Orpheus’ from the ‘Warsaw Autumn’.
Monika Gardoń-Preinl
Pianist, outstanding specialist in the field of chamber music, long-term academic teacher and accompanist. She has given concerts in the country performing piano concertos with an orchestra and abroad (Germany, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Estonia, Finland). As a chamber musician, she has performed with many outstanding artists from around the world in significant concert halls, also during the most important music festivals (maestro Peter Lukas Graf, Wolfgang Pfistermuller, Magnus Nilsson, Carlsten Svanberg, Robert Kozanek, Nicola Mazzanti, Carlo Colombo, Janos Balint, Wally Hasse, Foroug Karimi Diafar Zadar, Barbara Świątek-Żelazna, Tomasz Sosnowski, Marek Mleczko, Zdzisław Stolarczyk, Zdzisław Piernik, Maciej Łakomy, Grzegorz Mania, Piotr Różański, Maria Sławek, Jakub Jakowicz, Bartosz Koziak and others).