Photo by Kinga Karpati

Photo by Kinga Karpati

Roksana Kwaśnikowska – violin

Łukasz Chrzęszczyk – piano

The duo comprises former students of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Roksana Kwaśnikowska studied with Jan Stanienda and graduated with distinction. She has won a number of international competitions, including the Karol Szymanowski Competition in Katowice in 2008, the Michał Spisak Competition in Dąbrowa Górnicza in 2017, the Ludwig van Beethoven Competition in Hradec nad Moravicí, Czech Republic in 2017, the Beethoven Chamber Music Competition in Lusławice in 2018, the Tadeusz Wroński Solo Violin Competition in Warsaw in 2015 and the Oleh Krysa Violin Competition in Lviv in 2016. As a soloist, Kwaśnikowska has performed with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, as well as the orchestras of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, the Lviv Philharmonic and the Leoš Janáček Philharmonic in Ostrava. The violinist plays an instrument made by Johann Augustin Wagner in 2009.

Łukasz Chrzęszczyk studied piano with Piotr Paleczny and chamber music with Maja Nosowska. He is a prize winner of national and international piano and chamber music competitions, including the Beethoven Chamber Music Competition in Lusławice (the Grand Prix in 2015), the Kiejstut Bacewicz Chamber Music Competition in Łódź (2013) and the Johannes Brahms Chamber Music Competition in Gdańsk (2012). In 2014, he made his debut as a soloist with the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw and has also appeared alongside the Swiss Jugendorchester ‘il mosaico’, the Świętokrzyska Philharmonic Orchestra and the Podkarpacka Philharmonic Orchestra in Rzeszów. Earlier this year, Orphée Classics released Śpiewnik Polski (Polish Songbook) with twentieth- and twenty-first-century songs that he recorded with the singer Joanna Freszel.

PROGRAMME

First stage

Józef Elsner

Sonata in F major for violin and piano, Op. 10 No. 1

    I. Allegro

    II. Andante

Zygmunt Noskowski

Sonata in A minor for violin and piano

    I. Allegro con brio

    III. Prestissimo

Final

Karol Szymanowski

Lullaby (La berceuse d’Aïtacho Enia) for violin and piano, Op. 52

Myths. Three Poems for violin and piano, Op. 30

    I. The Fountain of Arethusa

    II. Narcissus

    III. Dryads and Pan

Witold Lutosławski

Lullaby ‘for Anne-Sophie’ for violin and piano

Partita for violin and piano

    Allegro giusto

    Ad libitum

    Largo

    Ad libitum

    Presto