St Mary's Perivale Events details

Tuesday 15 September 2 pm

Michal Szymanowski

Chopin: Nocturne in E Op 62 no 2 (6')

Chopin: Polonaise in C sharp minor Op 26 no 1 (8')

Chopin: Impromptu in F sharp Op 36 (5')

Chopin: Mazurkas Op 63 (6')
(1 in B minor 2 in F minor 3 in C sharp minor)

Chopin: Scherzo in C sharp minor Op 39 (8')

Chopin: Prelude in C sharp minor Op 45 (5')

Rózycki: Laguna Op 36 (7')

Debussy: La Cathédrale engloutie (Préludes, Book I) (6')

Debussy: Minstrels (Préludes, Book I) (3')

Bacewicz: Two Études in Double Notes - no 2 Vivace (3')

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A Polish pianist and conductor, Michal Karol Szymanowski graduated with honours from the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, where he studied piano with E. Popowa-Zydron and symphonic-operatic conducting under Z. Rychert. He honed his skills with E. Nebolsin at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. At present he works as a Professor at his alma mater, teaching the piano. Michal Szymanowski is artistic director of the International I. J. Paderewski Festival in Warsaw.

Michal Szymanowski has won top awards in a number of national and international piano competitions, including: Chopin Piano Competitions in Warsaw, Daegu, Darmstadt, Szafarnia, MozARTè in Aachen, Horowitz in Kiev, Paderewski in Bydgoszcz, Moniuszko in Rzeszów, Zarebski in Warsaw, Yamaha in Katowice. In 2015 he represented Poland at the 17th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Michal has performed in many concerts across Europe and throughout the world, including the Palace of Nations in Geneva, in the Vatican City (a concert for Pope Benedict XVI), Warsaw's Belvedere Palace (for the Polish President), numerous philharmonic halls as well as major festivals in Poland and abroad, among them Oficina de Música de Curitiba, Festival Chopiniana in Buenos Aires, Festival Europeo de Solistas in Caracas, Festival Pianistico di Roma, the Long Lake Festival in Lugano, and the Chopin and his Europe Festival in Warsaw, where he brilliantly performed piano concertos by Paderewski, Wieniawski and Stojowski.

He has released four albums with polish music. Three solo albums for CD Accord (Naxos) and Saggitaria featuring compositions by Chopin, Paderewski, Szymanowski and Wieniawski. The recordings were critically acclaimed. One of the reviews said: “this is heartfelt music-making of the type one associates with such luminaries as Uchida, Schiff and Brendel”. In 2024 Michal Szymanowski has recorded all works for piano and orchestra by I. J. Paderewski, leading the Polish Paderewski Symphony Orchestra (DUX).

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