July 16th, Saturday 12:05 pm / the tower of the Main Town Hall /

Prefestival – long time ago / recently.

concert of students of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk

Wiktor Ławnicki

Bartosz Śpiewak

Aleksy Zgierski

Antoni Ziober

Zuzanna Wężyk

Dominik Dymowski

Program: 

Aleksy Zgierski
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Gigue a-moll (z Księgi carillonowej Ioannesa de Gruyttersa – Antwerpia, 1746)

Aleksy Zgierski i Antoni Ziober
Geert D’hollander (*1965)
Ludus Modalis II: Sorry, No Time! 

Antoni Ziober
Zuzanna Wężyk (*1995)
Goodbye 

Dominik Dymowski
Geert D’hollander
Ludus Modalis I: Spring Morning  

Wiktor Ławnicki
Matthias Vanden Gheyn (1721-1785)
IV Preludium d-moll

Bartosz Śpiewak i Monika Kaźmierczak
Geert D’hollander
Wellesley Studies: Do You Like Rhythm? 

Wiktor Ławnicki i Monika Kaźmierczak
Ronald Barnes (1927-1997)
Carillon concerto for two to play, cz. 2 Adagio

Wiktor Ławnicki
Willem Créman (1895-1970)
Remembrances of J.S. Bach

Bartosz Śpiewak
Geert D’hollander
Ludus Modalis II: Layers 

Bartosz Śpiewak i Monika Kaźmierczak
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Pavana Śpiącej Królewny z cyklu Ma Mère l’Oye (Moja matka gęś, opr. G. Bodden)

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.