Chopin for All featuring Mateusz Krzyżowski | Free Concert

TAGS: Music Classical Concert Live

Sun 05/19/2024

Join us as we close our concert season with acclaimed pianist and multiple-prize recipient Mateusz Krzyżowski, Winner of the Paderewski Competition and semi-finalist at the 2021 Warsaw Competition.

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The Granada Church is accessible to everyone, and the programs are kid-friendly (with parental supervision). Free parking is available around the church property on Bird Road and University Drive.

And that is not all! Chopin Foundation Members can request reserved premiere seating. Become a member today by visiting https://www.chopin.org/membership.

Program:

Ignacy Jan Paderewski
-Mélodie in G flat major, Op. 16 No. 2
-Nocturne in B flat major, Op. 16 No. 4
-Legend in A major, Op. 16 No. 5

Karol Szymanowski
-Etudes, Op. 4

Fryderyk Chopin
-Scherzo in B flat minor, Op. 31

Intermission

Fryderyk Chopin
-Ballade in G minor, Op. 23
-Etude in E flat major, Op. 10 No. 11
-Etude in C minor, Op. 10 No. 12
-Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1
-Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante in E flat major, Op. 22

Mateusz Krzyżowski is a young Polish pianist who won the first prize at the XII International Paderewski Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz in 2022 and winner of the award for the best performance of WA Mozart's piano concerto. He was also a semi-finalist at the 2021 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. He began his education in his hometown in the Music School Complex of Feliks Rybicki in Tychy in the class of mgr Bożena Furmańska. He continued at the class of Lubow Nawrocka and Sebastian Nawrocki. Currently, he is a student at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in the class of Prof. Joanna Ławrynowicz-Just. He has worked with such ensembles as the Lublin Philharmonic, Sinfonia Juventus, Aukso Chamber Orchestra, and Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice and many others.

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