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The Stanisław Moniuszko International Competition of Polish Music in Rzeszów (20 - 27 September 2019)

Piotr Ryszard Pawlak

Photo by Andrzej Siarkiewicz

Photo by Andrzej Siarkiewicz

He has graduated from the Feliks Nowowiejski Comprehensive Primary and Secondary School of Music in Gdańsk, where he studied piano with Waldemar Wojtal and organ with Hanna Dys. He is currently a student of the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk. The artist has won numerous national and international competitions, e.g. he was awarded the First Prize and a special prize for the best improvisation at the Eleventh International Chopin Competition in Darmstadt, the Second Prize at the International Chopin Competition in Budapest in 2018, the First Prize at the Third Leopold Godowski International Piano Competition for Young Virtuosos in Warsaw and the First Prize at the First International Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in Beijing. Pawlak has also been a multiple winner of scholarships from the Polish Children’s Fund, the Minister of National Education, the President of the Council of Ministers, the Marshal of Pomorskie Voivodeship and the President of the City of Gdańsk.

In 2014, he received a scholarship sponsored by Krystian Zimerman. The artist has performed at a number of concert halls in Poland and abroad. As a soloist, he has appeared with such orchestras as the Lower Silesia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Świętokrzyska Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ningbo Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra (Filharmonia Kameralna) in Sopot.

PROGRAMME

First stage

Witold Lutosławski

Study No. 1 from Two Studies

Maurycy Moszkowski

Etude in A flat minor, Op. 72 No. 13

Fryderyk Chopin

Etude in A minor, Op. 10 No. 2

Henryk Mikołaj Górecki

Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 6

Second stage

Witold Lutosławski

Folk Melodies

    No. 7 Master Michael

    No. 8 The lime tree in the field

    No. 9 Flirting

    No. 10 The grove

    No. 11 The gander

    No. 12 The Schoolmaster

Michał Spisak

Humoresque

Juliusz Zarębski

Grande Polonaise in F sharp major, Op. 6

Leopold Godowski

Passacaglia in B minor

Final

Grażyna Bacewicz

Piano Concerto

    Allegro moderato

    Andante

    Molto allegro

 

 

ORGANIZER
CO-ORGANIZER
NATIONAL PATRONAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND
NATIONAL PATRONAGE
OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND ANDRZEJ DUDA
IN THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE
PARTNERS
MEDIA PARTNERS
The Stanisław Moniuszko International Competition
of Polish Music in Rzeszów
(20 - 27 September 2019)


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Institute of Music and Dance
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