| Spend a week at the Canberra International Music Festival, under the theme
‘From Pole to Pole’, enjoying fine performances by leading musicians.
With writer and acting festival chair Genevieve Jacobs, be part of the annual
musical extravaganza in the nation’s capital, featuring a fascinating program
of works by Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and Bartok and including a rare
performance of Haydn’s The Creation. Attend several performances by leading
musicians and ensembles, including the Australian Haydn Ensemble, the
Orava Quartet and the NZ String Quartet, in iconic settings such as
Parliament House, the National Portrait Gallery and the Fitters’ Workshop.
Between performances, enjoy a private guided tour of the Jeffrey Smart exhibition
at the National Gallery of Australia and view the outstanding international
exhibition, Shakespeare to Winehouse, at the National Portrait Gallery.
TOUR LEADER
Genevieve Jacobs has been
a prize-winning newspaper
journalist as well as a freelance
writer for gardening and
fine arts magazines, covering
topics principally on history
and design, and since 2017 has
been a Board Member of the
Canberra International Music
Festival. Among Genevieve’s
interests are the arts, gardens,
the environment, history and
politics. She loves hearing
people’s stories and spent
more than a decade as a
presenter with ABC Radio.
She is the acting chair of the
Canberra International Music
Festival.
I jeszcze słów kilka od Mamusi o sławnych braciach Kowalik.
Nie wiem , czy slyszalas o Canberra International Music Festival i Polish Gala Concert. 4 maja jest " la Polonaise" - polski Gala koncert z muzyka Chopina i Bacewicz.
" Orava Quartet" gra kwintet Grazyny Bacewicz z Lukaszem Krupinskim. Warto posluchac ten youtube link, bo australijscy organizatorzy propaguja na duza skale polska kulture. Az sie serce cieszy.
Pozdrawiam goraco i zycze duzo duzo zdrowka
Ania
Pole to Pole
La Polonaise
Wednesday, 4 May
La Polonaise 7.30PM, 4 MAY FITTERS’ WORKSHOP ADULT: $85 CONCESSION: $77 Poland’s proudest dance form, the Polonaise, found its definitive expression in the hands of Chopin. An equally distinctive voice emerged one hundred years later in the works of the prodigiously gifted Grażyna Bacewicz. Her first piano quintet is one of Poland’s greatest pieces of chamber music. Poland’s rising star Lucas Krupinski locks hands with the boys of the Orava String Quartet, aptly named after their family’s Polish origins.
Haydn for Breakfast
Saturday, 7 May
Haydn for Breakfast 8.30AM, 7 MAY EMBASSY OF POLAND ADULT: $60 CONCESSION: $55 Australian Haydn Ensemble plays Haydn op 20 nr2. With Polish encore: Krupinski plays Paderewski.
8.30am In-house breakfast
9.00am Flinders Quartet plays Haydn Op. 20 no. 6, with Polish encore: Krupinski plays Paderewski
9.30am Conversation with Festival artists
Roland Peelman himself
https://limelightmagazine.com.au/news/canberra-international-music-festival-announces-2022-program/
“2022 is a Festival full of contrast. We have early music from Spain, new music from Australia, music from the middle east, and certainly the very best of European traditions. We are presenting Polish music like never before and will be shining a light on our neighbours, the land of the long white cloud.
Poles featuring in the festival include Polish pianist Lucas Krupinski performing Chopin, Paderewski and Grażyna Bacewicz, William Barton’s musical response to Jackson Pollock’s famous Blue Poles, so controversial when purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, and the flagpole at Parliament House, representative of this meeting place for all Australians.
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London-based Polish pianist Lucas Krupinski is a major artist at the festival, performing in a number of different programs, the centrepiece of which is A Polish Gala Concert. Chopin put Poland’s signature dance form, the Polonaise, on the international map, with a number of celebrated compositions. Krupinski presents a selection of Chopin’s Polonaises and other solo pieces alongside the astonishing first Piano Quintet by Grażyna Bacewicz, performed with the Orava String Quartet, aptly named after their family’s Polish origins.
Canberra Times - our story
"We are presenting Polish music like never before and will be shining a light on our neighbours, the land of the long white cloud," Mr Peelman said.
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