Forgotten masters. Chamber music of less known early romantic English and French composers.

Dit concert geeft aandacht aan drie componisten uit het begin van de 19^de eeuw: de Engelse fluitvirtuoos Charles Nicholson, Alexandre Pierre François Böely en George Onslow, bijgenaamd de ‘ Franse Beethoven’ . Hoewel succesvol in hun eigen tijd, zijn ze nu allen relatief onbekend. Het Poolse kamermuziekensemble heeft als doel de rijkdom aan ideeën, de charme en de verborgen dramatiek in de composities te onthullen. Het programma biedt een spectrum aan stijlen: van lichte salon muziek, bedoeld ter vermaak van het publiek met een een ‘ pot pourri’ aan bekende melodieën en virtuositeit, tot meer serieuze maar ontroerende muziek.

The program is considered to revive pieces of three composers living and working at the beginning of the 19^th century: English flute virtuos Charles Nicholson, Alexandre Pierre François Böely and George Onslow, called a “french Beethoven”. All of them, though successful during their lifetime, are today quite unknown. The aim of the project is to show the freshness of ideas, originality, charm and dramatism hidden in their pieces. The program shows also a spectrum of styles, from a light salon-music considered to amuse the public with a “pot pourri” of well known melodies and virtuosic tricks to a most serious, moving kind of music.

Programma:

Charles Nicholson (1795-1837)

Second Concertino for flute and piano

Fantasia on a ballad “Home sweet home” for flute and piano

Trio dramatique no. 1 for flute, cello and piano
Allegro moderato
Andante grazioso
Allegro con brio

Second Pot Pourri for flute and piano

Trio dramatique no. 2 for flute, cello and piano
Larghetto
Andante
Allegro mosso

— Pause —

Alexandre Pierre François Boëly (1785-1858)
Piano Sonata c minor op. 1 no. 1
Allegro molto
Adagio con espressione
Finale. Presto

George Onslow (1784-1853)
Sonata for cello and piano F major op. 16 no. 1
Allegro
Andante
Allegretto

Musici:

Przemysław Wiśniewski is a graduate of the Music Academy of Lodz where in 2012 he got a master degree in the traverso flute in the class of Associate Prof. Magdalena Pilch, followed in 2013 by a master degree in modern flute in the class of Associate Prof. Katarzyna Przybylska. Currently he is a student of the second year of doctoral studies at the Music Academy in Krakow in the class of Prof. Peter Holtslag. During his years of study he has participated in numerous courses and master classes led by teachers such as Barthold Kuijken, Annie Laflamme, Brian Berryman, Janos Balint, Craig Goodman, Carlo Jans, Jean-Michel Tanguy, Barbara Gisler-Haase, Carlos Bruneel. He currently performs with numerous chamber music projects and collaborates with orchestras such as: Harmonia Sacra, {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna, Wrocławska Orkiestra Barokowa.

Maria Misiarz graduated from Academy of Music in Katowice in cello and barock cello. Since many years she is interested in historical performance practices. She studied baroque cello at the Academy of Music Wrocław with Jarosław Thiel and in Katowice with Mark Caudle. She participated in many Courses of Early Music in Poland as well as abroad and developed her skills attending masterclasses given by Phoebe Carrai, Kristin von der Goltz, Balázs Máté, Alison McGillivray and Markus Möllenbeck. She took part in numerous chamber and orchestral projects, playing with Concerto Polacco, Il Giardino d’Amore, Arte dei Suonatori. Nowadays she participates in projects of Theresia Youth Baroque Orchestra and Academia Montis Regalis in Italy. Maria combines concert life with pedagogical work, she is teaching baroque cello at the Secondary Music School in Bytom.

Joanna Owczarek graduated in 2013 from Academy of Music in Cracow in piano in a class of prof. Ewa Bukojemska. She studied also at the University Mozarteum Salzburg in the frames of Erasmus exchange with prof. Peter Lang and at Jagiellonian University Cracow (History of Arts). During her studies in modern piano she already began to develop her interests in early instruments taking
a courses in fortepiano (prof. Wolfgang Brunner, Salzburg) and clavichord (MA Maria Erdman, Cracow). She took part in numerous international masterclasses on historical piano, working among others with Katarzyna Drogosz, Jos van Immerseel, Christine Schornsheim and Petra Matejova. In 2014 she took part in the Second Geelvinck Fortepiano Concours. At the moment she is a student at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich in the fortepiano class of prof. Christine Schornsheim and at the Academy of Music in Katowice in the harpsichord class of prof. Marek Toporowski.