2nd edition of the ‘Viva! Canaletto' Festival - Polska Orkiestra Sinfonia Iuventus

The Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra
2nd edition of the ‘Viva! Canaletto’ Festival
3-7 June 2015, Warsaw

For the second time in Warsaw we will cheer ‘Viva! Canaletto’. Just like last year, the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra wishes to cherish the long weekend in June, Warsaw, its residents and visitors. June is not just the month in which spring gives way to summer heat, but it is also the much-longed-for moment in which the busy year of work and school subsides to the overpowering prospect of holiday. Our orchestra’s Warsaw-based festival is a harbinger of this long-awaited period,

at the same time serving as a summary of our team’s work this year. It is a kind of an exam session which we as a team are going to pass with the best notes – for your and our own satisfaction. To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War 2, we intend to play a piece which does not directly refer to the 20th century apocalypse, yet it provides an impressive memento: Carl Orff’s Carmina burana. The work was composed in Nazi Germany to be immediately included in the list of ‘degenerate music’ and then to serve the propaganda machine. Today, it speaks with an evocative language about universal issues: the unpredictability of fate, the transience of this world, and also about the eternal optimism associated with the recurring spring, the joy of feasting and celebrating the

sunny side of life.

We will use this opportunity ahead of autumn and of the emotions associated with another International Chopin Piano Competition to introduce to you one of Poland’s candidates – we will give him the opportunity to try out his skills in a concert played with an orchestra. We will also wish him to play in the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall during the finale of the Chopin Competition. We will

also invite you to a marathon of chamber music ‘Kameralnie-Elektoralnie’ during which the musicians of the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra and their friends will play the music that they love best and that lingers in their souls when they are not in rehearsals or playing symphonic concerts.

Honorary Patronage
The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Hanna Gronkiwiecz-Waltz Presidence of Warsaw.

CONCERTS

3.06.15 – 18.00h Opera Gala
Warsaw Philharmonic, Jasna Street 5

Carl Orff – Carmina burana

Iwona Socha – soprano
Hubert Stolarski – tenor
Jacek Jaskuła – baritone
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir
Henryk Wojnarowski – Choir Director

The Władysław Skoraczewski ARTOS Boy’s Choir
Danuta Chmurska – Choir Director

The Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra
Tadeusz Wojciechowski – conductor

Free tickets available at the box office of the National Philharmonic from May 18th.
(Monday to Saturday, 10.00-14.00h and 15.00-19.00h)

5.06.15; 16.00h , 19.30h Kameralnie – Elektoralnie
Mazovia Institute of Culture, Elektoralna Street 12

Chamber ensembles. Sinfonia Iuventus and Friends

Concert No 1, 16.00h.
Ferenc Farkas – Five Antique Hungarian Dances
Denes Agay – Five easy dances
Malcolm Arnold – Three Shanties

Elżbieta Drozdowska – Flute
Franciszek Olszowski – Oboe
Michał Żagan – Bassoon
Adam Eljasiński – Clarinet
Cezary Zielke – Horn

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Francis Poulenc – Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano

Agata Wojciechowska – Oboe
Anna Muszyńska – Bassoon
Mateusz Czech – Piano

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Chiel Meijering – Bird’s Eye View
Maciej Zimka –Sonata for violin and accordion

Duet Cord AniMa”
Anna Trólka – Violin
Maciej Zimka – Accordion

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Aleksander Tansman – Sonata for two Violins

Jan Kutkowski – Violin
Ewa Wacławczyk – Violin

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Igor Stravinsky – septet The Soldier’s Tale

Jan Kutkowski – Violin
Damian Sobkowiak – Double Basses
Jerzy Matysiak – Clarinet
Cezary Rembisz – Bassoon
Ostap Popowicz – Trumpet
Rafał Krauze – Trombone
Tomasz Skrętkowski – Percussion

Concert No 2; 19.30h

Claude Debussy – Children’s Corner
Jacques Ibert – Trois pièces brèves

Elżbieta Drozdowska – Flute
Franciszek Olszowski – Oboe
Michał Żagan – Bassoon
Adam Eljasiński – Clarinet
Cezary Zielke – Horn

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Erich W. Korngold – Piano Trio Op. 1

Grzegorz Skrobiński – Piano
Wadim Zarych – Violin
Julia Gniadek – Cello

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Geoff Walker – Paganini Fireworks

Kwartet “Voilá”
Agnieszka Dobrzyńska – Viola
Małgorzata Błaszczyk – Viola
Aleksandra Gargol – Viola
Mateusz Wasiucionek – Viola

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Carl Böhm – Quartet in F, arr. Himie Voxman
Tomaso Albinoni – Sonata in g, arr. Jean Thilde
Henri Tomasi – Trois Divertissements
Leonard Bernstein – America, arr. Prague Clarinet Quartet

Adam Eljasiński – Clarinet
Radosław Herdzik – Clarinet
Piotr Ptak – Clarinet
Jerzy Matysiak – Clarinet, Bass Clarinet

Free tickets available at the box office the Mazovia Institute of Culture from May 20th. (Monday to Friday, 11.00-19.00h ). Seats are not numbered

7.06.15 ; 19.00h – Symphonic concert
Polish Theatre in Warsaw, Kazimierza Karasia Street 2
Carl Maria von Weber – Uwertura Oberon
Fryderyk Chopin – Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Łukasz Krupiński – piano
The Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra
Tadeusz Wojciechowski – conductor

Free tickets available at the box office of the Polish Theatre from May 20th.
Krakowskie Przedmieście Street 6 (Monday to Friday 10.00-19.00, Saturday to Sunday 12.00-19.00h)