Concert and tour at the exhibition “Rome in 1810”
Ideas and the sense of beauty of the romantic era
Short concert and a thematic tour of the exhibition “Rome 1810”.
Piano duo Grzegorz Mania and Piotr Różański (Poland), tour by Aleksandra Murre
Programme
Wladislaw Zelenski – Cracovienne op. 47
Maurycy Moszkowski – Waltz op. 11 no 2
Maurycy Moszkowski – Andante op. 74 no 3
Maurycy Moszkowski – Hungary op. 23 no 6 and Spain op. 23 no 3
Ignaz Friedman – 5 Waltzes op. 51
Ignacy Jan Paderewski – Tatra Album op. 12 nos 1, 2 and 4
The pianist Grzegorz Mania graduated with distinction from the Kraków Music Academy and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He also read law at Jagiellonian University, and obtained a PhD for a dissertation on music and copyright law. In 2019 he became a full professor at the Kraków Music Academy.
He works extensively as a recitalist, orchestral soloist and chamber musician, and is a member of the Extra Sounds Ensemble. He has appeared in international festivals throughout Poland, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Finland, Austria, Italy, Norway, Iceland, Vietnam, Israel, the United States of America, Cyprus and Ukraine, and has been a finalist in a number of international solo and chamber competitions from 2002 to the present.
Currently, Grzegorz Mania divides his time between professorships at the Feliks Nowowiejski Music Academy in Bydgoszcz, lecturing on copyrights at the Kraków and Wroclaw Music Academies and rehearsing chamber music programmes all over Poland.
The pianist Piotr Różański graduated from the Kraków Music Academy, with a degree in piano and chamber music. After earning his Doctor of Arts degree in 2014 and a post-doctoral degree in 2019, Piotr Róźański was appointed Assistant Professor of Piano at the Kraków Music Academy and is on the faculty of the Chopin Music School in Kraków.
Piotr Różański is a top prize winner of international piano and chamber music competitions, including the 2006 Chopin National Piano Competition, the 2008 YAMAHA Foundation Scholarship Piano Competition and the 2010 Independent International Competition for Musical Individualities, as well as being a finalist in competitions in the United States, Slovakia and Austria. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with many outstanding artists and has performed at such noted festivals as Winners and Masters, Chopin and his Europe, The Łódź Philharmonic Premiere, Wawel at Dusk, Summer Music, Mozartiana, Music in Old Kraków, Emanations, the Young Musicians’ Festival, the International Chopin Piano Festival in Duszniki Zdrój, and the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival.
Różański’s interests include piano literature discoveries and pioneering performances of piano music for the left hand. He also collaborates with PWM Editions on new music publications, including editing piano works by Roman Ryterband, and a selection of duets for piano in four hands.
The concert is supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Tallinn.