Hungarian pianist finished 3rd International Royal Cracow Piano Festival 2011. Not enough? "International Days of Ferenc Liszt" are still in progress! Details on the website of the Academy of Music in Kraków

Gallery of the FESTIVAL 2011

Halfway point. Traditionally we meet at 19:00, this time in the "Dworek Białoprądnicki". At the piano today - Eduard Stan. After two "Italian" concert time for Romania! It will be going ...

And so it was during the two previous concerts:

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Tomorrow we start! In the Concert Hall of the Academy of Music the piano is tuned to receive a guest from Italy - an outstanding pianist Nazzareno Carusi. Eavesdropping on the door of his trial, we can be sure that he worthily inaugurate the Festival.

We already know the program of the International Royal Cracow Piano Festival 2011. We invite you to become familiar with the details of the Program tab.

In this year in late April and early May, Alessandro Taverna (performer of the International Royal Cracow Piano Festival 2010) occurs in a tour with one of the most prestigious orchestras in Europe - Royal Symphony Orchestra of London. As a part of the "Russian Spectacular" (concerts of Russian music) in the Chatham and Stevenage Alessandro Taverna will carry II Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto, and on the 8th May in Northampton occurs in the I Tchaikovsky Concerto. Behind the desktop will appear a conductor NICOLAE Moldoveanu and Grzegorz Nowak.

Festival Gallery 2010

Claire Huangci, participant in this year's International Royal Cracow Piano Festival was semifinalist of the XVI International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Of her performance in the second stage of the Competition Martha Hope wrote:
"The audience will buy Chopin only when the contractor have an idea for it (...) this American girl began nocturne, which sounded so subdued dynamics in a spiritual - is felt that the pianist thoughts on each sound. It is thought to dominate in its interpretations. In mazurkas have successfully found their natural rhythm and tone (especially in B-flat minor). In the Grand Polonaise in E flat major to prove that is not afraid of bold solutions, because the second part full of threats and pathos."
In the third stage (the semifinals) Claire Huangci performed: Sonata in B minor, Op. 35, Polonaise-fantasy in A flat major, Op. 61 and Sonata in B minor, Op. 58.
On the 26 October in Krakow in the tune performed by Claire Huangci we will be able to hear the Sonata in B flat minor and the Polonaise-Fantaisie, also ballads, mazurkas, etudes, and Waltz in F Major, Op. 34.
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Sofya Gulyak received excellent reviews for her performance at this year's International Chopin Piano Festival in Duszniki-Zdroj. In "Ruch Muzyczny" is written: "The Russian school is also inspired Sofya Gulyak, the next sensation of this year's Festival. Graduated from the conservatory in her hometown of Kazan, then studied in France and Italy. In September 2009, won First Prize and Gold Medal at the XVI International Competition in Leeds. In Duszniki she presented Rachmaninov ( Elegy in E flat minor, Prelude in C sharp minor op. 3, Etude-image of E flat minor op. 39 and Variations on a Theme of Corelli), Shostakovich (Prelude and Fugue in D flat major op. 87) and Scriabin and Prokofiev. She enthused technique: with feline agility, and precision but performs extremely difficult work of Russian artists. We also admired the sound: the noble, vivid, deep. It was an unforgettable recital, ended with three encores (played, among others Adagio from Oboe Concerto by Marcello in the transcription of Bach and Nocturne in F minor op. 55 by Chopin. "
We are waiting for similar impression in Krakow! 28th October in the auditorium of the Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University.

Alessandro Taverna, performer of International Royal Cracow Piano Festival 2010 is awarded by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize 2010 by the City of Eppan. The winner has been chosen by the public of the Academy. Listeners, who have attended all three concerts, have voted the last evening for one of six candidates. Alessandro Taverna is awarded the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize and invited to play a short programme on Michelangeli's historic piano.

We start selling tickets for this year's International Royal Cracow Piano Festival - Special Edition Chopin 2010, which will be held on 25 - 31 October 2010.
You can now book and buy tickets at +48 696 910 950 or rezerwacje@pianoclassic.pl
Coming soon will start selling Internet portal www.eventim.pl and sales at the turist information points in Krakow, which let in a separate news.
The festival will open Alessandro Taverna, currently a student at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, with prof. Sergio Perticaroli.
Among this year's festival will also performe pianists such as:
- Claire Huangci and Nimrod David Pfeffer - the participants in this year's Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw,
- Sofya Gulyak - the first woman who receive the first prize and Gold Medal at the XVI International Piano Competition in Leeds,
- Beata Bilińska - winner of the first prize and the Audience Award at the XVII International Piano Competition "Rina Sala Gallo in Monza in Italy (2002).
- Giuseppe Tavanti that will perform the program "Chopin and Italy"
At the end of the Festival will performe one of the brightest stars of Festival 2009, Alex Kobrin.
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Krzysztof Jabłoński, an artist from last year's International Royal Cracow Piano Festival, on August 29 - September 2 occurs in the "Chopinomania" organized by the L. van Beethoven Association.
As part of the series "Chopinomania" there will be three concerts of his music performed in public space: Astronomical Observatory, Jagiellonian University, Warsaw housing estate, and Sopot Pier. The soloist in both of Frederick Chopin piano concertos will be accompanied by the Beethoven Academy Orchestra under the baton of Michał Dworzyński. Read more: http://beethoven.org.pl/pl/imprezy/chopinomania

Claire's Huangci performance on the International Royal Cracow Piano Festival in 26th October 2010 is the part of her First Prize Winner's Concert Tour as the winner of 2010 National Chopin Piano Competition in the USA.
Among the most important events of this tour there are: Newport Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, El Paso Chopin Festival, Chopin Festival of Canada and insitution foundating concerts: Polish American Association of Sarasota, American Pianists Association Indianapolis and Kosciuszko Foundation in Cleveland. The most outstanding event of the tour was the recital on 8 June 2010 in Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall.


Claire Huangci

"10 August 2010 Martina Filjak last year Performer of International Royal Cracow Piano Festival 2009 gave a recital during 65th INTERNATIONAL CHOPIN PIANO FESTIVAL in Duszniki-Zdrój.

Since the performance during International Royal Cracow Piano Festival in 2009, Martina Filjak has had succesful debuts at th Konzerthaus in Berlin, Musikverein in Vienna and the Zankel Hall at the Carnegie Hall. Also during season 2009-2010 she performed with the Bilbao Symphony, Tenerife Symphony, South Caroline Philharmonic. She recorded a Cd Album for Naxos with 15 Sonatas of Padre Soler which will be published in September 2010.

Additional engagements and future projects this season include performances with the South-East Europe Youth Orchestra under the baton of Heinrich Schiff at the Berlin Konzerthaus, Sinfonia Iuventus under Theodor Guschlbauer at the Strasbourg Festival, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie and Christoph Poppen, Chautaqua Symphony under the baton of Stefan Sanderling, The Granada symphony Orchestra and ORQUESTA SINFÓNICA DE CHILE under the baton of Michał Nesterowicz.

Recitals in 2010-2011 will be among others at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Residenz München, Berlin Philharmonic Hall and the Palau de la Musica in Spain."


Martina Filjak

Alexander Kobrin and the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, artists of the last year's International Piano Festival Royal City of Krakow, will performe together in the October tour around Germany named "Comarch Young Experience 2010". Concerts will be from 1 to 3 October 210 in sequentially: Frankfurt, Dortmund, Munich and conducted by Michael Klauza.
The program includes:
Ludwig van Beethoven - Overture "The Birth of Prometheus"
Frederic Chopin - Piano Concerto in e-minor op.11
Sergei Prokofiev - Suite "Romeo and Juliet"


Alexander Kobrin

Mariangela Vacatello since the final concert performance at the International Piano Festival 2009 Royal City of Krakow has given recitals and concerts with orchestra in the United States and in Italy with the RAI Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Christian Jarvie and the Unione Musicale in Turin.
Her nearest plans include recitals e.g. Concert at the Wigmore Hall in London, at the International Keyboard Institute Festival in New York, Gilmore recital for the Society in the U.S. And concerts at New Orleans University, Hartford, Colorado Spring, recitals in Italy, the Associazione Filharmonica Romana (Rome) and Musica Insieme (Bologna). He will also participate in the Marathon Liszt Parco della Musica in Rome, and in an extensive tour of the major orchestras in South Africa.


Mariangela Vacatello

Marcel Stefko, one of the soloists of the last year's International Piano Festival Royal City of Krakow in the 2009/2010 season there was also a recitalist in Prague and Rome, with Gershwin's Piano Concerto with the National Philharmonic, Slovak, and gave numerous chamber music concerts with the Quartet Graff in the Czech Republic and Bratislava.
Since April 2010 has been a solist Pressburger Hummel Ensemble, performed together at the conference "Pocta FCH / Homage FCH 2010" organized on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Frederic Chopin. Currently implemented the project titled "Hummel's piano concertos as a model in Frederic Chopin's already been presented in Switzerland, Austria and Poland. In 2011, he will be completed recording a CD with compositions by Hummel and Chopin.


Marcel Stefko