This October, in the music world, is marked by the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. Furthermore, 17 October marks the 176th anniversary of the death of this most distinguished Polish composer. Therefore, talented, award-winning pianists associated with the Grazyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lodz – Joanna Sochacka and Paweł Cłapiński – will perform solo and in a duet. The evening's programme will include compositions by Fryderyk Chopin, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Franz Schubert, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Grażyna Bacewicz. Hence, the concert is titled "Black and White."
Joanna Sochacka holds a Doctor of Arts and a lecturer at the Piano Department of the G. and K. Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lodz. She is a graduate of music universities in Austria, Switzerland and Poland. She regularly serves on juries at piano competitions in France, China, Poland, the Netherlands and Austria, and also teaches master classes around the world – in Germany, Portugal, Austria, Argentina, Venezuela, Spain and Italy. She has given concerts in over a dozen countries (including the United Kingdom, Argentina, Chile, France, Austria, Germany and Spain), performing recitals in the most prestigious concert halls, including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Royal Albert Hall in London, and the Beethoven-Haus Concert Hall in Bonn. Her debut album, featuring the music of Grażyna Bacewicz, a world premiere recording, was enthusiastically received worldwide and praised by critics and prestigious magazines.
Paweł Cłapiński is a chamber pianist and a lecturer at the Department of Vocal Studies at the G. and K. Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lodz, in the singing class of Prof. dr hab. Urszula Kryger. He performs actively in Poland and abroad, in regular cooperation with Urszula Kryger and Aleksandra Borkiewicz-Cłapińska. He is a graduate of the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, where he studied piano with Prof. Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń. He has won awards at national and international piano competitions, including First Prize and a special award for the best performance of a solo piece by Ferenc Liszt at the NIFC National Chopin Competition in Warsaw, and First Prize at the 4th International Piano Competition "Un ricetto in Musica" (Candelo, Italy).
Admission to the concert is free. Registration is required. The University of Lodz community (staff and students), please visit kultura.uni.lodz.pl; others are asked to register by email at wydarzenia@uni.lodz.pl. The number of places is limited.
a photo of Joanna Sochacka – photo by Alisa Fokina
Zdjęcie Pawła Cłapińskiego - photo by Ukryte w kadrze, Kamila Kaja Glowacka
