Photo by Kamil Babka

Photo by Kamil Babka

Olga Winkowska – violin

Piotr Kosarga – violin

Kamil Babka – viola

Anna Szmatoła – cello

Tomasz Sośniak – piano

The members of the ensemble are graduates of the Academies of Music in Poznań, Katowice and Bydgoszcz, who are involved in various musical enterprises in the city of Poznań. They also collaborate with numerous orchestras in Poland and abroad, e.g. Sinfonia Varsovia, the Berliner Symphoniker and the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra. The artists have achieved success at national and international competitions, such as the International Piano Competition ‘Magnificat Lupiae’, the National Piano Competition ‘Ludwik Stefański i Halina Czerny-Stefańska in Memoriam’ and the International Music Competition ‘Don Vincenzo Vitti’ in Castellana Grotte.

They have a busy concert schedule as soloists and chamber musicians performing at various festivals around the world. They have recorded for Dux and Polish Radio. One of the principal elements of the Septem Quintet’s endeavours, as an ensemble and as individual musicians, is the promotion of works written by Polish composers, both past and contemporary. Primarily as members of the Sepia Ensemble (which focuses on contemporary music), they have appeared in numerous premiere performances of works by such composers as Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska, Michał Janocha, Michał Ossowski and Katarzyna Taborowska-Kaszuba.

PROGRAMME

First stage

Ignacy Friedman

Piano Quintet in C minor

    III. Epilog. Allegretto semplice

Ludomir Różycki

Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 35

    I. Lento – Allegro moderato

    II. Adagio

Final

Grażyna Bacewicz

Piano Quintet No. 1

    Moderato molto espressivo. Allegro

    Presto

    Grave

    Con passione

Juliusz Zarębski

Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 34

    I. Allegro