The Fifth Annual Paderewski Festival of Raleigh
November 3, 4, 6, 10, 11, and 17, 2018
Commencing our fifth year, we of the Paderewski Festival are well on our way to realizing our announced purpose of creating an annual cycle of concerts honoring Ignacy Jan Paderewski. We invite you to join us for these special events, to learn and experience the extraordinary piano legacy–both as composer and as performer–of Paderewski. He performed in this area four times and had an unusually close personal connection to Raleigh.
This year we will feature six concerts by five distinguished and accomplished pianists. We are adding two venues this year: the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington and the Bruno Walter Auditorium in Lincoln Center in New York.
The weight of the performances will center on the works of Chopin and Paderewski. Paderewski normally constructed his programs from the standards of the 19th-century repertoire and would, on occasion, add one of his own compositions as a diversion or as an encore.
The website for the Festival is: www.paderewski-festival.org
The Facebook page for the Festival : www.facebook.com/paderewskifestivalraleigh
Saturday, November 3, 3:00pm North Carolina Museum of History, Daniels Auditorium |
Pianist: Sara Daneshpour is the Third-Prize winner of the 2017 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition, along with the 2014 prizewinner at the Seoul International Music Competition in Seoul, Korea and 2013 Laureate of the ProLiance Energy Classical Fellowship Awards of the American Pianists Association. She is the First Prize winner of the XII Concours International de Musique du Maroc (Morocco, 2012), Second-Prize winner in the 2007 William Kapell International Piano Competition, and First Prize and Gold Medal winner of the 2007 International Russian Music Piano Competition. She has studied under the direction of Leon Fleisher at the Curtis Institute of Music, Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky at the Juilliard School, and Dr. Oleg Volkov. Her studies are continuing under Sergei Babayan at Cleveland Institute of Music since 2015. Ms. Daneshpour has performed not only in her native Washington, but also throughout the U.S., Russia, Canada, Germany, Finland, Estonia, Norway, Denmark, France, Sweden, Spain, and Japan. She has been heard in prestigious venues: the Kennedy Center in Washington, Carnegie Hall in New York, and the Great Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. She has been featured nationwide on 160 public radio stations, including WGBH in Boston.
saradaneshpour.com/pages/index/biography/
saradaneshpour.com/video/index/
Sunday, November 4, 3:00pm North Carolina Museum of History, Daniels Auditorium |
Pianist: Kamil Pacholec was born on November 11, 1998, in Kielce, Poland, where he studied with Małgorzata Kowalska at the Ludomir Różycki Music High School. He burst upon the Polish and international piano scene in 2016 as the only high school student and eventual first-place winner in the Fryderyk Chopin 47 National Piano Competition (Katowice). In the same competition he was awarded special prizes for the best Fryderyk Chopin solo interpretation and the best piano concerto performance. He had previously received prizes in Kosice (Czech Republic), Görlitz/Zgorzelec (Germany and Poland), and the Cesar Franck Competition in Kraainem (Belgium). In the summer of 2017 he played five recitals in the Texas Piano Summer (Fort Worth), and recitals in Nohant and Paris, and as featured soloist at Żelazowa Wola and Duszniki Zdrój in Poland. In 2018 he performed under the auspices of the Kraków Piano Summer and competed in the Chopin International Competition on Period Instruments in September 2018. Since graduating with honors from the Rozycki Music School in Kielce in 2017 he has been a student of Professor Wojciech Świtała in the Karol Szymanowski Piano Academy in Katowice. His appearance in Raleigh last year was so compelling that we have invited him again.
kamilpacholec.kielce.com.pl/en/
Tuesday, November 6, 7:00pm
Embassy of the Republic of Poland, 2640 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC
By Invitation from the Embassy Only
Pianist: Kamil Pacholec was born on November 11, 1998, in Kielce, Poland, where he studied with Małgorzata Kowalska at the Ludomir Różycki Music High School. He burst upon the Polish and international piano scene in 2016 as the only high school student and eventual first-place winner in the Fryderyk Chopin 47 National Piano Competition (Katowice). In the same competition he was awarded special prizes for the best Fryderyk Chopin solo interpretation and the best piano concerto performance. He had previously received prizes in Kosice (Czech Republic), Görlitz/Zgorzelec (Germany and Poland), and the Cesar Franck Competition in Kraainem (Belgium). In the summer of 2017 he played five recitals in the Texas Piano Summer (Fort Worth), and recitals in Nohant and Paris, and as featured soloist at Żelazowa Wola and Duszniki Zdrój in Poland. In 2018 he performed under the auspices of the Kraków Piano Summer and competed in the Chopin International Competition on Period Instruments in September 2018. Since graduating with honors from the Rozycki Music School in Kielce in 2017 he has been a student of Professor Wojciech Świtała in the Karol Szymanowski Piano Academy in Katowice. His appearance in Raleigh last year was so compelling that we have invited him again.
kamilpacholec.kielce.com.pl/en/
Saturday, November 10, 7:30pm Saint Mary’s School, Smedes Parlor |
Pianist: Eric Lu, born in 1998, first came to international attention as a prize winner at the 2015 Chopin International Competition in Warsaw, aged just 17, and on winning the 2017 International German Piano Award and the US National Chopin Competition. He has just won First Prize at The Leeds International Piano Competition in September 2018, performing Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto with The Hallé and Edward Gardner in the final. Eric begins the 2018/19 season by performing with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko, and continues with further concerts with The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder. Other forthcoming dates include a concert with the Oslo Philharmonic and recitals at the Philharmonie Luxembourg and Gewandhaus Leipzig. November 2018 will see the release of Eric’s first recording for Warner Classics, featuring his Beethoven and Chopin from Leeds. Born in Massachusetts in 1997, Eric has already worked with the Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, and Warsaw Philharmonic. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Taipei National Concert Hall, Tokyo Metropolitan Hall, Auditorio Nacional Madrid and Seoul Arts Center, among others. He is currently studying at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where his teachers include Jonathan Biss and Robert McDonald, and is also a pupil of Dang Thai Son.
www.ericlupianist.com/#/videos
Sunday, November 11, 3:00pm Saint Mary’s School, Smedes Parlor |
Pianist: Jakub Kuszlik was born in 1996 in Bochnia, Poland. He graduated Władysław Żeleński Music School in Cracow in Olga Łazarska’s class and is currently a student of Ekaterina Popowa-Zydroń at Feliks Nowowiejski Music Academy in Bydgoszcz. His biggest achievement is winning the 2nd Prize at the International Paderewski Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz (he also won several special prizes). He also won several prizes at other international and national competitions, e.g. the 10th Competition “Artur Rubinstein in memoriam” in Bydgoszcz (2nd Prize), the XIII Ludwik Stefanski and Halina Czerny–Stefańska Competition in Płock (Grand Prix), the National Auditions of Piano Students (1st Prize) and the VI Moritz Moszkowski Competition in Kielce (1st Prize). He has performed in Poland and abroad in Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway and Iceland. His scholarships include the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Czartoryski Foundation, and honorary scholarship of Pro Musica Bona Foundation. He has won prizes in piano competitions beginning at age 14, including the All-Poland Piano Competition in Konin (third place, 2010), the International Piano Competition in Zgorzelec (second place, 2011), the Halina Czerny-Stefańska Piano Tournament in Żagań (first place, 2012), the EPTA International Piano Competition in Cracow (second place, 2012) and the International Moritz Moszkowski Piano Competition in Kielce (first place, 2013).
www.telekom-beethoven-competition.de/en/jakub-kuszlik
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlRDp8iJ7E
Saturday, November 17, 2:30pm
Auditorium, Bruno Walter Library, Lincoln Center, New York
Pianist: Jakub Kuszlik was born in 1996 in Bochnia, Poland. He graduated Władysław Żeleński Music School in Cracow in Olga Łazarska’s class and is currently a student of Ekaterina Popowa-Zydroń at Feliks Nowowiejski Music Academy in Bydgoszcz. His biggest achievement is winning the 2nd Prize at the International Paderewski Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz (he also won several special prizes). He also won several prizes at other international and national competitions, e.g. the 10th Competition “Artur Rubinstein in memoriam” in Bydgoszcz (2nd Prize), the XIII Ludwik Stefanski and Halina Czerny–Stefańska Competition in Płock (Grand Prix), the National Auditions of Piano Students (1st Prize) and the VI Moritz Moszkowski Competition in Kielce (1st Prize). He has performed in Poland and abroad in Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway and Iceland. His scholarships include the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Czartoryski Foundation, and honorary scholarship of Pro Musica Bona Foundation. He has won prizes in piano competitions beginning at age 14, including the All-Poland Piano Competition in Konin (third place, 2010), the International Piano Competition in Zgorzelec (second place, 2011), the Halina Czerny-Stefańska Piano Tournament in Żagań (first place, 2012), the EPTA International Piano Competition in Cracow (second place, 2012) and the International Moritz Moszkowski Piano Competition in Kielce (first place, 2013).
www.telekom-beethoven-competition.de/en/jakub-kuszlik
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlRDp8iJ7E
Pianist: Timothy Jones grew up in Chapel Hill. He attended the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem before becoming a student of Marian Hahn at Peabody Conservatory (Johns Hopkins) in Baltimore where he is entering his senior year. In March 2017 he won the Music Teachers National Association Young Artists Competition (conservatory level) in his second year at Peabody. He studied privately with Brenda Bruce, Eric Larsen, Douglas Humphreys, Anton Nel, and Rebecca Penneys. In past years he has attended, studied, played, and taught in the summer months at Bowdoin International Music Festival, Meadowmount International Music Festival, and Aspen Music Festival. Masterclasses include Robert McDonald, John Perry, Ann Schein, and Leon Fleisher. In the summer of 2018 he studied with Boris Berman and Wei-yi Yang at the Virtuoso and Belcanto Festival in Lucca, Italy, and participated and performed in the Kraków Piano Summer in Poland. He has performed in Miami, Baltimore, Austria, and Kraków, among other venues. As an avid chamber musician and collaborator, Timothy was a member of Trio ex Animo, a trio of undergraduate winners of Peabody Institute’s Honors Ensemble audition, a program that selects a chamber group to represent the highest level of chamber music at Peabody, providing them performance opportunities and a piece written for them by a student composer. He is also an experienced vocal pianist, having played in masterclasses and lessons for Frederica von Stade, Ah Young Hong, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, and Steven Rainbolt.
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=741158983
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmSL5ZGxJR4
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