Music events

A musical gift from a Christmas tree
 

December 13th 20:00
Music performance of Christmas carols
Asia House lobby, 4 Weizman st.Tel-Aviv

Tadeusz Wozniak – Vocal, Guitar Jolanta Majchrzak – Vocal Mariusz Jagoda – Violin Piotr Wozniak – Vocal, Violoncello

*Due to limited number of seats please RSVP: 03-6962053/9
 

Concerts by pianist Marek Drewnowski
October 21-26

Marek Drewnowski – prominent pianist, conductor, creator and organizer of the Josef Hoffman Festival in Naleczow, and also founder of the chamber orchestra The Chopin Soloists. Known for his outstanding renditions of Chopin’s music and Scarlatti’s sonatas. He performs at all the major concert halls of Europe, the United States and Japan. With the Israeli Chamber Orchestra at the Tel Aviv Opera he shall play two Chopin concerts and Chopin’s variations from Mozart’s Don Giovanni. He shall also sappear the Ein Kerem Music Center – the concert shall be transmitted by Kol Israel.

October 21, at 20:00 at the Tel Aviv Opera, at 28, Leonardo da Vinci St., Tel Aviv
Tickets: 03-6927777, price: NIS 115-199, a 30% discount for friends of the Polish Institute (code 271). Detailed information: http://www.israel-opera.co.il

October 22 – master class, The Jerusalem Music Academy

October 26, at 12:00, the Ein Kerem Music Center, Rahvat Ha’maayan. Tickets at NIS 30 shall be available at the Center’s counter, tel.: 02-6414250, detailed information: www.klassitarg.org.il

Concert by the Karol Szymanowski Quartet
jointly with the Israeli clarinet player Chen Halevi
on October 9, at 20:30

Marek Dumicz – I violin
Grzegorz Kotow – II violin
Vladimir Mykitka – alt
Marcin Sieniawski – cello
and
Chen Halevi – clarinet

The most charismatic string quartet of the young generation successfully promotes Polish music on the world’s stages. The quartet has performed at the London Wigmore Hall, at Carnegie Hall and at Concertgebow in Amsterdam. In Tel Aviv, the young musicians shall play works by Mozart, Beethoven, Lindberg and Karol Szymanowski on the seventieth anniversary of the death of this great artist.

October 9, at 19:30, in the Aula of the Conservatory, at 19, Striker St., Tel Aviv
Tickets available at the Conservatory, tel. 03-5466228, ext. 1, e-mail: chamber@icm.org.il
additional info: www.icm.org.il
Price of tickets for holders of invitations of the Polish Institute – NIS 94
Regular ticket price – NIS 110

The 21st International Red Sea Jazz Festival in Eilat
August 27-30
Concerts of the Tomasz Stańko Quartet
Tomasz Stańko – trumpet
Marcin Wasilewski – piano
Sławomir Kurkiewicz – contrabass
Michał Miśkiewicz – drums
 

Tomasz Stańko (http://www.tomaszstanko.com), world-famous  trumpet player and jazz composer shall perform in Eilat together with outstanding musicians from the Simple Acoustic  Trio.

Stańko has fashioned an individual, fascinatingly efficient improvisation language and a communicative charisma all his own. He has given concerts all over the world and cooperated with top-class musicians. He has recorded some 40 albums and composed theme music to a few scores of movies. In 1994, Stańko started cooperating with musicians of the Acoustic Trio which led to their recording of the superb album Soul of Things for EMC. The subsequent album, Suspended Night, a kind of throwback to Soul of Things, was the first European track to make the list of top-selling instrumental jazz albums on the American market. Last year, the group produced a remarkable album Lontano, their third for EMC.

August 27 and 29, at 22:30 – concert in the Eilat harbor
August 28, at 16:00 – master workshops

Tickets: Castel, tel.: 03-6045000 (from July 10), additional information: www.redseajazzeilat.com

In cooperation with Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the Polish-Israeli Season 2008-2009

International master workshops “History, Music, Remembrance”
July 29 – August 3
Aneta Fidrych – alto
Daniel Kabulski

As every year, Polish musicians shall take part in workshops aimed at focusing on and commemorating the artistic achievements of the artists in the Terezin ghetto. The project enables young participants to confront history and the memory of the Holocaust through art, it inspires and encourages dialogue. The workshops shall be concluded by concerts open to a wide audience.

July 30, at 20:00 – teachers’ concert in the kibbutz Givat Haim Ihud
August 2, at 19:00 – concert by workshop participants at the Beit Terezin, kibbutz Givat Haim Ihud
August 3, at 11:00 – concert at the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem
Additional information: Beit Terezin, tel.: 04-6369515, e-mail: bterezin@ghi.org.il  

June 29/30, 2007, all-night music marathon „White Night”

with the participation of Polish musicians: world-class soprano Olgi Szwajgier and contrabassist Kazimierz Pyzik
A night of performing and improvising, of new compositions and electronic music. Prominent artists from all over the world. In addition to the Festival, music workshops and audio-visual art.

The Einav Center, 76, Ibn Gvirol St. (Gan Ha’ir), tel. 03-5217763, http://www.tlart.net

Olga Szwajgier – world-class soprano has sang in all major festivals of contemporary music. By means of self-devised exercises she extended her voice range from four to six octaves. She is using the unique voice compass widening method. She studied under renowned teachers Leokadia Kukawska and Stanislawa Hoffmanowa.
Her artistic achievement encompasses. She interprets operas by Ives, Stockhausen, Risset, Penderecki, Stachowski, Łuciuk, Lutosławski and also classical and baroque repertoire.
In 1989, together with three musicians and composers (Kazimierz Pyzik – double-bass, Sławomir Zubrzycki - piano, Mariusz Czarnecki – percussion instruments) she established the music ensemble - The Olga Szwajgier Quartet. The ensemble specializes in performing 20th century music including works in the field of Instrumental Theater..
 

Kazimierz Pyzik - studied double-bass, theory of music and composition at the Academy of Music in Cracow and the viola da gamba at the Nurnberg and Brussels Conservatories. He divides his concert performances into two groups – playing Baroque and Renaissance music on various types of viol da gamba and performing contemporary music on double-bass and cello. As a composer he uses, on one hand, classical forms and tonal order realized through specially constructed harmonic systems and, on the other hand, various experimental forms. He has composed around 150 solo, chamber and orchestra pieces.

June 8, 2007, at 21:00 concert by Anna Maria Jopek

This is the second time Anna Maria Jopek appears on the Israeli music scene. In March 2000, she appeared at concerts in Israel together with Henryk Miśkiewicz and Marek Napiórkowski. She is a graduate of the Warsaw Music Academy and of the Manhattan School of Music in New York. Her album „Upojenie” (Ecstasy), which she recorded with the famous American guitar player Pat Metheny, is a world-class achievement. She is performing in Austria, Germany, Portugal and Canada. She gave an extremely successful performance in Carnegie Hall. Her concerts attract wide audiences all over the world.
This outstanding vocalist, winner of several prizes and gold and platinum records will give a one-time concert in Tel Aviv together with four musicians: Marek Napiórkowski, Robert Kubiszyn, Paweł Dobrowolski and Andrzej Roman.

The Tel Aviv Opera, 28, Leonardo da Vinci St., Tel Awiv, Tel: 03 – 6927777
Ticket prices – NIS 99 for those who produce an invitation by the Polish Institute at the counter.
Regular ticket price – NIS 139
Due to the limited number of seats please reserve tickets!
For More Information:
http://www.universalmusic.pl/amj/
Anna Maria Jopek concert.pdf

June 9, 2007, at 12:00 the Lutosławski Piano Duo piano concert
The Ein Kerem Music Center, Rahvat Ha’maayan, tel: 02-6414250

The Lutosławski Piano Duo is one of the leading young piano duos in the world. This one-of-a-kind ensemble on the Polish music scene specializes in one area only and namely playing on two pianos for four hands.. The pianists Emilia Sitarz and Bartłomiej Wąsik embarked on their musical journey in 1999 when they began to learn from two renowned piano duos – Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir and Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl.
Tickets at the counter of the Center
 

Additional information: http://www.klassi.net/targ  and http://www.lutoslawski-duo.com 

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 5 pm

*Assafsonic* two hours of contemporary Polish music

Tel Aviv: 106 fm

http://www.106fm.co.il/channel04/106Fm.asp

This upcoming Assaf Ben Kereth will host an honorable guest Jacek Skolimowski, a journalist, radio producer and broadcaster, a DJ and a man of many other skills from the distant Polish capital Warsaw.

Jacek will present the new contemporary and vibrant music scene in his city, tell us about various artists from and all music spheres.  

you will hear bands such as:

psia ekipa, band clicks from village warsaw, masala, krakow klezmer zrzeszają, meritum, rozowy freud, nick click, robotlazy, współczesny hałasowy kwintet, scalpel, grandmoother, maciek i maciek, old spiewacy, emptines, krystyna, superdywidenda, wally, zimne dzieciaki smierci, samochód jest na ogniu, ryba, sharp, psycho candy, deuce, narzekacz, asia mine, emitter/arszyn, wolfram, lucky david, jacek sienkiewicz