POLAND IN HEART

2017-07-18 21:30

Church of the Holy Spirit

 

ŁUKASZ KRUPIŃSKI, piano (Poland)

BARTOSZ ŻURAKOWSKI, conductor (Poland)

KotorArt Festival Orchestra

 

Ticket price 5 euros

 

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Lukasz Krupinski

ŁUKASZ KRUPIŃSKI, pianist and the winner of the 7th International Piano Competition in San Marino (2016), the only Pole do to so, has reached the finals of this year’s Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in Bolzano, which will be held in August. He graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in his native Warsaw under Professors A. Paleta-Bugaj and Konrad Skolarski. Currently he studies at the Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media under Professor A. Vardi. In addition to numerous awards at international competitions, Krupiński is a two-time laureate of the Pro Polonia Foundation Award (2013, 2014), a winner of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Prize and Scholarship (2013, 2014, 2015), and the Krystian Zimerman Foundation Scholarship (2015). Last year the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music presented him with a Commemorative Medal in recognition of his artistic achievements. Łukasz Krupiński has given numerous concerts in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Belgium, France, Norway, Germany, Spain, Great Britain, Italy, Russia, China, South Korea, Australia a,nd the USA. In January, he recorded his debut album Espressione, featuring the works of Haydn, Chopin, and Scriabin, a result of his impressions from his musical journeys to Italy.

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Bartosz Żurakowski

BARTOSZ ŻURAKOWSKI, symphony and opera conductor, has performed in numerous countries on four continents. He studied at the University of Music in Warsaw, graduating also from the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw, while he obtained his master’s in this field at the Rotterdam School of Management. A significant influence on his artistic personality are the Polish conductors Jerzy Semkow, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, and Jerzy Maksymiuk, as well as renowned maestro Kurt Masur. He is a laureate of the Witold Lutosławski International Conducting Contest. In 2013, at the world-famous Sala São Paulo, Żurakowski presented a repertoire with works of the Polish authors Lutosławski, Górecki, Szymanowski, and Karłowicz. After recording a compact disc for the label Divine Art Records that same year, there followed numerous invitations from a number of orchestras from Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Turkey, and Ukraine. In the upcoming season, concerts at Carnegie Hall await him, as do collaborations with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, the Montenegro Symphony Orchestra, the RTV Slovenian Symphony Orchestra, and the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, among others.