July 15th, Friday 8:30 pm / the tower of St. Catherine’s Church /
Prefestival – recently / long time ago.
concert of students of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk
Wiktor Ławnicki
Bartosz Śpiewak
Aleksy Zgierski
Antoni Ziober
Zuzanna Wężyk
Dominik Dymowski
Program:
Antoni Ziober
Geert D’hollander (*1965)
Wellesley Studies: Take Seven
Wiktor Ławnicki i Antoni Ziober
Denis Bedard (*1950)
Cat Suite, cz. 1 Prrrelude i cz. 2 Cats at Play (opr. W. Ławnicki, A. Ziober)
Wiktor Ławnicki
Geert D’hollander
Ludus Modalis I: Sorrowing
Dominik Dymowski
Geert D’hollander
Ludus Modalis I: Spring Morning
Wiktor Ławnicki i Dominik Dymowski
Geert D’hollander
Ludus Modalis II: Broken Colors
Bartosz Śpiewak
Geert D’hollander
Ludus Modalis I: Layers
Bartosz Śpiewak i Wiktor Ławnicki
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Pavane (opr. R. de Waardt)
Aleksy Zgierski
Geert D’hollander
Ludus Modalis I: Encore
Aleksy Zgierski i Antoni Ziober
Geert D’hollander
Ludus Modalis II: Playful Syncopes
ok. godz. 21:15
Kamil Cieślik (*1991)
Opowieści Fontanny Heweliusza (2016) na carillon, elektronikę i Fontannę Heweliusza
Wiktor Ławnicki
ZUZANNA WĘŻYK
guitarist, singer and composer from Gdańsk. Repeatedly awarded in national and international guitar competitions. Zuzanna is also associated with Salzburg and London, where she perfected her guitar and film composition skills. Since 2019 she has been working with the creative group Acid Grass Records, with which, in December 2020, she released 'EP 2020′ – a minialbum with original guitar and vocal music.
In this year’s edition of the festival, Zuzanna participates as a composer, offering her works for adaptation to fellow carillonists rearranged especially for this occasion.
WIKTOR ŁAWNICKI
a Salesian, 3rd-year undergraduate student with a degree in church music, graduated from the Music School in Stargard in the cello class. He started learning to play the carillon in October last year. Since childhood, he dreamed of playing the carillon one day, and now his dreams have come true.
DOMINIK DYMOWSKI
organist and conductor. Graduate of the Music School in Gostynin in piano class. He cooperates with the Arce Cantores choir, where he plays the role of accompanist and watches over the correct emission of the voice of the choristers. With the choir, he has already won many awards at various choral competitions. Most recently, on 30 April, he took third place at the National Choral Competition organised by the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. In June 2022, he defended his diploma and bachelor’s thesis in church music at the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk.
ALEKSY ZGIERSKI
(born 1997 in Lublin) – graduate of the Szeligowski Music School in Lublin and Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. He is currently a student in the Department of Church Music at the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk, where he began his adventure with the carillon in the class of Dr Monika Kaźmierczak. He works as an organist in the Sanctuary of Our Lady of God in Gdańsk – Matemblewo
ANTONI ZIOBER
(born 2003 in Mostyska, Lviv Oblast) – originating from a Polish family, he is a graduate of the Mostyska Secondary School and the Mostyska Art School in piano and guitar classes. A 2nd-year student of the Department of Church Music at the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk, where he deepens his knowledge of music and learns to play the organ and the carillon.
BARTOSZ ŚPIEWAK
born in 1996 in Częstochowa. He graduated from the M. J. Żebrowski Music School in piano and organ class. In 2016, he began studying choral conducting at the S. Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk in the conducting class of Prof. Anna Wilczewska. In 2019, he began additional studies in the instrumental faculty in the harpsichord class of Prof. Małgorzata Skotnicka. In 2021, he received a master’s degree in musical arts. His adventure with playing the carillon began recently, only in 2021. He studied the secrets of playing the carillon under the watchful eye of the Gdansk city carillonist Dr Monika Kaźmierczak. He had the opportunity to present his skills during the regular carillon concerts at St. Catherine Church and the Main City Hall. Along with the carillonist Monika Kaźmierczak, he also performed concerts accompanying the Night of Museums in 2022.