Paweł Kowalski (Warszawa)
Piano recital to commemmorate November 11, 200th Anniversary of the birth of I. Paderewski
11. 11. 2010 – Thursday
7 pm
Creative Communities’ Church, ul. M. Skłodowskiej-Curie 22
The chronicle of former Festivals
19th Christian Culture Festival 8 — 22 November 2015
18th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 16 November 2014
17th Christian Culture Festival 3 — 17 November 2013
16th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 18 November 2012
15th Christian Culture Festival 6 — 20 November 2011
14th Christian Culture Festival 7 — 21 November 2010
13th Christian Culture Festival 8 — 22 November 2009
12th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 16 November 2008
11th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 18 November 2007
10th Christian Culture Festival 5 — 19 November 2006
9th Christian Culture Festival 6 — 20 November 2005
8th Christian Culture Festival 7 — 21 November 2004
7th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 16 November 2003
6th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 17 November 2002
5th Christian Culture Festival 4 — 18 November 2001
4th Christian Culture Festival 5 — 19 November 2000
3rd Christian Culture Festival 7 — 21 November 1999
2nd Christian Culture Festival 8 — 21 November 1998
1st Christian Culture Festival 2 — 30 November 1997
About Christian Culture Festival
Christian Culture Festival was organized for the first time in 1997 on 10th Anniversary of the Logos Theatre. In a sense, it extends the idea of Christian Culture Weeks organized in Poland in 70s and 80s of the last century, which were to become counterpoise to lay media model promoted by the State. Lodz Christian Culture Days were organized in churches all around the city, so as to accommodate the artists, spectacles, exhibitions and projections.
One of such places was the John Paul lecture theatre in the vault of the Assumption of Holy Mother Church in Kościelna Street. This is where the Logos Theatre started, before it was moved to the church in Maria Skłodowska-Curie. It was this church that Archbishop Władysław Ziółek gave to the Lodz artists in 1993, and in which the Centre of Creative Communities’ of Lodz Archdiocese was appointed. It is here that the ‘logistic’ centre of the Festival is located, and where some of the Festival events take place.
Traditionally, the Festival takes place in November, on the first Sunday after All Soul’s Day. It usually lasts for two weeks, during which various event take place – spectacle premiers, other theatres come to Lodz, there are exhibitions of invited artists, performances of choirs and musicians, very often not to be seen anywhere else in Poland at any other time. The Festival programme is the result of the whole year’s work of rev. Waldemar Sondka, the Festival Director, who – using his contacts – invites artists who are interesting, out of the ordinary, noteworthy and creating art perhaps not always religious, but always searching and at the highest level. Care for the level of the Festival offers is a permanent rule, the Logos environment has always wished to provide the Lodz citizens with the possibility of contact with art deprived of parochialism, open to the man and as perfect formally as possible.
The Festival is not an activity that brings profit. Any entrance cards are issued as invitations that are free of charge, and the team of the Logos Theatre and all the people engaged in the Festival organization, act as volunteers. This does not mean that Christian Culture Festival costs nothing. On the contrary, to organize such a cultural event at appropriate level is always connected with costs. Rev. Waldemar Sondka deals with organizing means to secure the Festival events all year round. He manages to gain sponsors (without whom the Festival would not exist) and subsidies from institutions that deal with funding culture (without which the Festival could not develop). All that in order to realize the basic idea of the event that derived from the Lodz Christian Culture Days – to enable anyone who wishes and needs that, to live the Mystery through art. This idea assumes a free of charge participation in all the artistic events, which has been the case since the very beginning of the Festival until today, the only condition is that on the day of the Festival opening, one must queue as long as it takes to get invitations. The only limit to the number of invitations is the capacity of rooms in which the events are organized every day throughout the two weeks of the Festival.
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Paweł Kowalski
Paweł Kowalski is one of Poland´s most versatile musicians playing almost forty works for piano and orchestra ranging from Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Paderewski, SaintSaens and Rachmaninov up to Ravel, Gershwin, Poulenc, Górecki and Panufnik.
He studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, and at the Vancouver Academy of Music on a personal grant from Witold Lutosławski.
After a brilliant 1989 Warsaw debut in Witold Lutosławski´s Piano Concerto with the composer on the conductor´s podium, Paweł Kowalski has been giving concerts in many European countries, the United States, Canada and South America. He has appeared at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Conservatoire in Brussels, Tonhalle in Zurich, National Philharmonic and Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of the Polish Radio in Warsaw.
He has been soloist with the Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by Yehudi Menuhin at the orchestra´s anniversary concert in 1994.
Pawel Kowalski has been invited to music festivals including the BBC Polish Season in London, Europalia in Brussels, Klavierfestival Ruhr, Carinthischer Sommer, Warsaw Autumn, Concentus Moraviae, Chopin Festivals in Warsaw, Marianske Lazne, Duszniki, Antonin and Gaming. Warsaw Mozart Festival, Łańcut Music Festival, Polish National Piano Festival, Silesian Quartet and its Guests and others. He has made CDs with music by Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and Zarębski as well as recordings and live broadcasts for over twenty radio stations in Europe and Canada. Celebrating the enlargement of the EU, the French magazine Courrier International has chosen Pawel Kowalski as one of Poland´s four most exciting personalities.Recently the pianist appeared at the Bartok National Concert Hall in Budapest, with the Croatian Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Lisinski Hall in Zagreb, he was member of the jury of the International Hummel Piano Competition in Bratislava, played recitals in Buenos Aires, Lima and Bogota, and was soloist with Orquesta Sinfonica de Chile in Santiago.
At the occasion of Chopin's 200th anniversary, Paweł Kowalski has played recitals at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, Conservatori Superior de Musica in Palma de Mallorca, in Vienna, Kuwait and at the Budapest Spring Festival and played Chopin's works for piano and orchestra with George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in Bucharest, the Sinfonia Iuventus at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw and at the Swiss Classic Night in Winterthur as well as with the Wratislavia Chamber Orchestra at the Tonhalle in Zurich.
"In Mr. Kowalski I found very fine performer of my Concerto. He is a very talented pianist and a highly intelligent musician."
Witold Lutosławski
"I was tremendously impressed and moved by this wonderful pianist and wonderful musician, by his command of the keyboard, his deep insight into the music and his gifts of profound understanding and communication. This marvellous pianist has fulfilled his human and musical potential and his memory is such that he has a very large repertoire at his command."
Yehudi Menuhin
A piano recital
TO CELEBRATE THE POLISH NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY
200th ANNIVERSARY OF FRYDERYK CHOPIN
AND 150th ANNIVERSARY OF IGNACY JAN PADEREWSKI
Fryderyk Chopin
Ballade in G Minor op. 23
Fantasie-Impromptu in C sharp Minor op. 66
Scherzo in B flat Minor op. 31
Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise in E flat Major op. 22
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Nocturne in B flat Major op. 16 no. 4
Polonaise in B Major op. 9 no. 6
Fryderyk Chopin
Mazurkas:
in C sharp Minor op. 6 no. 2
in F Minor op.7 no. 3
in C sharp Minor op. 30 no. 4
in D Major op. 30 no. 2
Grande Polonaise in A flat Major op. 53