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Music events in 2010

 

January 16- July 3, 2010- Chopin’s heritage

A series of seven concerts of Chopin's works performed by the best pianists in Israel will be carried out by the Chamber Music Center of the Israeli Music Conservatory in Tel Aviv and the Polish Institute. Among the musicians are: Ron Regev, Daniel Gertler, Victor Stanislavsky, Ido Bar- Shay, Yaron Colberg, Matan Porat, Binyamin Hochman, Roman Rabinovich, Shlomi Shem- Tov. The focal point of the concerts will be will be a performance by the excellent Polish pianist Carol Radziwonowicz.

Einav Center, Ibn Gvirol 71, Tel Aviv

 

 

Organized by:

The Polish Institute, The chamber music center of The Israeli music conservatory in Tel Aviv, IAM  


2010

Chopin Year in Israel

 

In  2010 music lovers around the world will celebrate the 200th anniversary of one of the world’s greatest composers - Fryderyk Chopin (1810-2010). In Israel, the Polish Institute together with the country’s top music institutions will present a variety of concerts, recitals, conferences - events which will bring closer Israeli audiences to the composer and his musical masterpieces.

 

Concerts at the Ein Kerem Music Center

In the framework of the Chopin Year in Israel the Eim Kerem Music Centre will put forward a series of concerts in which top young Israeli pianists will play Chopin. The pianists are part of the Aldwell Center Young Master Pianists Program. The concerts will be broadcast live on “Kol Hamusica”. The program was prepared by the Aldwell Center and the Chopin Society in Israel.

 

January 1 12:00 PM - Tomer Gvirzman- Etudes Integral Op 10 – Op 25

Feburary 4 10:00 PMParticipants in the “Young Piano Masters Project” of the Aldwell Center Dance and  the Buchman-Mehta Music School, Tel Aviv university- Scherzos, Nocturne, Mazurka, Impromptu, Fantaisies,.

March 26 12:00 PM - Participants in the “Young Piano Masters Project” of the Aldwell Center Dance and  the Buchman-Mehta Music School, Tel Aviv university- Nocturne,

Mazurka, Polonaise and Waltzes.

 

The Ein Kerem Music Center

Rahavat HaMa’ayan

02-6414250

www.einkeremusicenter.org.il

(Tickets on sale at the center)

 

 

 

International Conference and Symposium

As part of Chopin’s 200th anniversary, the Eduard Aldwell Center in Jerusalem will hold a week-long seminar with the participation of musicians and music experts from around the world along with master classes. Poland will be represented by the pianist and teacher Prof. Andrzej Jasinski who was the teacher of Christian Zimmerman and Krzysztof Jablonski

 

January 3-7 (free entry)

Navon Hall, Nezrin Building, Giva’at Ram, Jerusalem.

To register and for more information:  050-9905541 tbalter@umail.iu.edu

www.aldwell.com

 

                            

 

Chopin – Reverberating Heritage

Piano Recitals Series in Celebration of Chopin's 200th Anniversary

In Celebration of Chopin’s 200th anniversary, a top team of Israeli pianists has been assembled to take part in a unique series of piano recitals that enlightens, from various angles, Chopin's central position as a composer who left to his successors a heritage as great as the one that he had inherited from his predecessors. The relations between Chopin and other significant composers – preceding him, contemporaneous with him and succeeding him – will be presented in a series of  concerts, dedicated to the main genres in the oeuvre of the great Polish master. Also in the program, a special concert by the acclaimed Polish pianist- Karol Radziwonowicz on the 26th of June 2010.

January 15 11:30- Between Warsaw and Paris, longings and a revolution- a lecture by Dr Ron Regev (The Israeli Music Conservatorium 193 Ben Yehuda St. Tel-Aviv)

January 16  20:30- "Invitation to the Dance" – Waltzes, Polonaises and Impromptus. Pianists: Daniel Gortler & Victor Stanislavsky

Feburary 20 20:30- Three Romantic Views on the Sonata. Pianist: Ron Regev

March 18 20:30- "Know from where you have Come and to where you are destined to go" – Mazurkas and Sonatas. Pianist: Ido Bar-Shai

March 21 10:30-14:00- A master class and talk with pianist Ido Bar-Shai with exemplary piano students of the Israel Conservatory of Music (The Felicja Blumental Music Center, 26 Bialik St. Tel-Aviv).

 

All concerts will take place at the Einav Cultural Center,

71 Ibn Gvirol st., Tel-Aviv

For more information: the Chamber Music Center:

03-5466228 chamber@icm.org.il

www.icm.org.il/chamber

 

 

 The best of Chopin at The 5th Eilat Chamber Music Festival

Students from around the world will participate in a marathon of Chopin’s work

February 24 17:00- Concert 14 Chopin Marathon

 

 

Leonardo Golden Tulip Club Hotel-Eilat

For tickets please call: 08-6336272 *9977

For more information:  www.eilat-festival.co.il

Discounts for friends of Polish Institute

 

Dance classes influenced by Chopin’s music

Special classes for dance students at Yironi Alef High School in Tel-Aviv will be held by dancer and choreographer Jacek Tyski from the Wielki Theatre in Poland. The students will work and get to know the beauty and passion of Chopin’s music by acting as the orchestra and instruments. They will do so with Tyski’s choreography to Chopin’s Concert in Fa bemol #2.

 

Feburary 28-March 7

Yironi Alef High School


Krzysztof Penderecki

Guest of the 5th Festival for Chamber Music in Eilat

 

Composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki, one of the most prominent composers of modern music today with a distinctive avant-garde style, is known in Israel, mostly for his work "the Seven Gates of Jerusalem",which premiered in a performance in Jerusalem in 1997.

This year’s guests at the Eilat festival will get to hear two of Penderecki's creations: duet for violin and viola and a sonata for violin and piano.

 

25 of February at 21:00 – concert no. 17 – a tribute for Penderecki

 Handle – trio sonata in sol minor, op. 2 no. 6 | Penderecki – sonata for violin and piano | Smetana - piano trio in sol minor op. 15

Performers – Julian Rahlin, Boris Koshnir, Gary Hoffman, Itamar Golan

 

27 of February at 17:00 – concert no. 22 – chamber concert

In addition to the duet for violin and viola by Penderecki, works by Mozart, Schumann, Dvorak and Shostakovic, will also be preformed

 

Leonardo Golden Tulip Club Hotel-Eilat

For tickets please call: 08-6336272 *9977

For more information: www.eilat-festival.co.il

Discounts for friends of Polish Institute

 

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