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chopin_yearIn 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.



coming events:


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 PM –Participants 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.

 

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

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

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


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




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Polish Songs, op. post. 74 13. Nie ma czego trzeba (Nothing of what I need),
1845 Ewa Podle?, contralto Garrick Ohlson, piano

 
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