Music events

Chopin Concert
November 5, at 20.00 at the Tel Aviv Opera

The concert shall be played at the solemn opening of the exhibition "Duda-Gracz to Chopin". The idea of the concert is to combine Chopin's music with a movie.

*Due to the limited number of seats please confirm your attendance in the secretariat of the Polish Institute at 03 – 7411955.

July: 23-28

International Master Workshops “History, Music and Remembrance”
at Beit Terezin on the kibbutz Givat Chayim Ichud

With the participation of young musicians from Poland – Ewelina Lowicka (violin) and Maciej Brachmanski (guitar). The workshops shall be concluded by two concerts to be performed by students and teachers on Thursday, July 27 at 20.00 hours and on Friday, July 28 at 11.30, respectively, at Yad Va’shem in Jerusalem. For additonal information about the concerts please call 04-6369515 (Beit Theresiestadt at Kibbutz Givat Chayim Ichud).
 

Information and tickets: Einav Centre, Ibn Gvirol Str. 71 (Gan Ha’ir), tel. 03-5217763. You can find more info concerning this event at the web page www.tlart.info

Marek Choloniewski - (born 1953, Krakow), studied organ (with L.Werner), theory of music and composition (with B.Schaeffer) at the Krakow Academ of Music, where since 1976, has been employed on the faculty of the Electro-acoustic Music Studio (currently as an Associate Professor of Composition). In 1977 he founded Cracow Society of Contemporary Music - Muzyka Centrum, largely engaged in concert work. Since 80-ties he co-founded many ensembles and music groups: Freight Train (with P. Bikont, K.Knittel), CH&K&K (with K.Knittel, W.Kiniorski), mc² duo), NaturalPlastic which deals with concert and recording activities. Since 1987 he has been giving concerts, workshops and lectures in Europe, Asia, North and South America. In addition, in 1986, he founded his own annual International Concert Series called "Audio Art" which presented the most important artists and achievements in "sound art" from all over the world. A world renown lecturer, composer, "live computer music" performer, and author of audio-visual computer projects, Chołoniewski writes instrumental and computer music for theater, film and radio. He is initiator and artistic director of Audio Art Festival (in Cracow and Seoul – with J.Ryu), International Workshops for New Music Cracow/Stuttgart (with M.Hermann). In-between 1993 – 1999 he was an artistic director of the International Academy for New Composition and Audio Art in Schwaz (Austria – with Marianne Penz). Since 2000 he is director of the Electro-acoustic Music Studio at the Cracow Academy of Music. Founder of open, outdoor projects: GlobalMix, ArtBoat and GPS-Art. Since 2003 he is coordinator and cooperator of European projects: Bridges (with K.Kwiatkowski), Ensemble Spiel (with S.Meier), European Music Cursus (IRCAM), European Modern Orchestra (with K.Kwiatkowski), integra. In 2005 he founded and is President of Polish Federation of Electroacoustic Music (section of CIME Bourges). www.studiomch.art.pl

Wlodzimierz Kiniorski - (born 1951, Zagnansk) saxophonist, composer. He won several competitions as a soloist and the member of many groups on many competitions (e.g. Jazz nad Odrà, Jazz Juniors, Krzysztof Komeda competition). He made many recordings.and played with Norman Grant, Sony Robertson, Twinkle Brothers, Trebunie Tutki and Kinior Orchestra, Young Power, Free Cooperation, PAFF, Izrael, The Break. He wrote music for film ("Zdzislaw Beksinski", "Dalaj Lama", "Andrzej Strumillo"). He is author of many multimedia projects (with Krzysztof Knittel, Marcin Krzyzanowski, Piotr Bikont, Marek Choloniewski, Pawel Dudzinski and Darek Makaruk). He cooperates with Witkiewicz Theatre in Zakopane, Theatre "Klinika Lalek", Powszechny Theatre in Lodz, Bücklein Theatre in Kraków. Currently he is playing concerts with KI-NO (Kiniorski - Nowakowski), Mamadou Diouf and Kinior Orchestra, Izrael, Plastig Bag, Graal, Flap People, Kinior&Makaruk. www.mozg.art.pl/muzyka/kinior-01.htm

Rafal Mazur - (born 1971, Kraków), graduated of State Secondary School of Music in Cracow, in the cello class of Krzysztof Okoń. Fascinated with jazz and bass guitar than he studied privately with a Cracow bass player Marek Janicki. His first steps on the professional jazz stage were made beside a pianist and composer Leszek Kułakowski, playing concerts in his trio. Then he played in concerts, among others, with Adam Wendt, Adam Kawończyk, Grażyna Łobaszewska, Laszlo Sule (Hun), Juki Valipakka (Fin), Penti Lahtti (Fin).He has also cooperated with Cracow cabaret musisians. He has taken part in the programme of Piotr "Kuba" Kubowicz from the well-known Polish literary cabaret “Piwnica pod Baranami" and he made a record with them. Rafał Mazur also played with Ola Maurer on her record and he performed with an artist of "Loch Camelot" Cabaret , Lada Gorpienko , on the final concert of " European Cities of Culture 2000" festival in Helsinki.After meeting a composer and saxophone player Keir Neuringer , he played several concerts of improvised music, which he embraced abandoning jazz. In 2001 both artists founded " Improviser's Ensemble". From that time on, they regulary play concerts of modern improvised music in Cracow. Currently the ensamble is temporarily suspended ( the story of the band www.improvisersensamble.com ). "Improvising Artists " are the group founded instead. It is an informal association grouping musicians - improvisers, who promote and create improvised music. At present Rafal Mazur plays acoustic bass guitars custom built to his own specifications by guitar maker Jerzy Wysocki. He has developed an advanced and individual approach to his nstrument—and to improvisation in genral—in which sonority, extended technique and gesture combine effortlessly in performance. Mazur’s uncompromising musical standards are matched by the sophistication of his wit and demeanor on- and offstage. He has taken an important role in Kraków to support young artists and improvised music and has performed improvised, jazz, heavy metal, and Celtic music in clubs and festivals across Poland and in much of Europe . Rafał Mazur focuses on playing with Keir Neuringer and on leading the band “Process" ( www.process.net.pl ) In March 2005 he composed and performed the music for theatre installation "Peron 26" by Daniel Banaczek, with whom he also plays in a duo, creating an improvised movement-and-music performance. www.rafalmazur.com

Polish Jazz in Givataim Theatre

Guest of this year Givataim Theatre Jazz Festival will be
Maciej Grzywacz’s Trio, composed of:

Maciej Grzywacz – guitar
Piotr Lemańczyk – contrabass
Krzysztof Gradziuk – percussion

Maciej Grzywacz – guitarist, composer, and arranger. Winner of numerous musical Prizes. Collaborated among others with Zbigniew Namyslowski, Emil Kowalski, Jakob Diensesen and Jacek Kochane. Participated in the recordings of Leszek Mozdzer and Marek Kuczynski’s film and theatre music.

Maciej Grzywacz’s Trio will give the following performances:

Thursday, March 23, 2006, at 9pm – with the Israeli trumpet-player Avishay Cohen. The idea of shared concert was born at the last year Jazz Festival in Givataim Theatre. Grzywacz and Cohen’s artistic affinities as well as their musical complicity resulted in wonderful communication, which you will be able to appreciate during the concert.

Friday, March 24, 2006, at 10pm – Euro Jazz concert, in which Polish jazzmen will play with Czech artists. Musicians will perform standard as well as own compositions.

For tickets as well as for more information about concerts, please contact the Givataim Theatre’s Ticket Office, Reh. Remez 40, tel. 03 7325340, or the web site http://www.t-g.co.il