19.07 – Friday – 8:30 pm

/ the tower of St. Catherine’s Church /

Student prelude – students for the City

Wojciech Kowal
/ accordion

Zuzanna Wężyk
/ guitar

Alicja Pałka

Witold Maciak

Antoni Ziober
/ carillon

Program:

Duet Alicja Pałka (Gdańsk), Witold Maciak (Warszawa)

Geert D’hollander (*1965)
Ludus Modalis II: VII. Rippling Water

Katarzyna Kwiecień-Długosz (*1978)
Kopciuszek. Siedem aforyzmów na duet carillonowy:
I. W domu
V. Taniec z księciem

Witold Maciak

Staf Nees (1901-1965)
Fantasia I

Antoni Ziober (Gdańsk)

John Edward Courter(1941-2010)
Prelude and Fugue in Baroque Style

Antoni Ziober (carillon), Wojciech Kowal (akordeon)

Jan Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Inwencja h-moll BWV 786
Inwencja a-moll BWV 784

Antoni Ziober

Zuzanna Wężyk (*1995)
Balustrade

Antoni Ziober (carillon), Zuzanna Wężyk (gitara)

Zuzanna Wężyk
El Tridente
I. Goodbye
II. Akoustikí
III. Akaneiro (Tribute to Krzysztof Benkowski)

Antoni Ziober (carillon), Wojciech Kowal (akordeon), Zuzanna Wężyk (gitara)

Zuzanna Wężyk
Impresje: I. Idylla

* zrealizowano ze środków Miasta Gdańska w ramach Gdańskiego Stypendium Kulturalnego Fundusz Twórczy

born in 1994 in Katowice, Poland. Pianist and organist. Graduate of Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Instrumental Pedagogy in Piano at the Stanislaw Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdansk in the class of Prof. Andrzej Artykiewicz and Dr. Maciej Ganski. She also holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Church Music from the same university in the carillon class of Dr. Monika Kazmierczak, organ in the undergraduate course of Prof. Boguslaw Grabowski and in the graduate course of Dr. Ewa Rytel.

WITOLD MACIAK  

harpsichordist, composer, student of Secondary Music School in Warsaw and the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen (Belgium). He developed his carillon playing skills during lessons and courses in Poland and abroad (Eddy Mariën, Monika Kaźmierczak, Rien Donkersloot, Boudewijn Zwart). Witold is interested in combining the worlds of old and new music, eagerly using electronic and historical instruments and exploring it in terms of microtonal phenomena.

ANTONI ZIOBER   

born in 2003 in Mościski, Lviv region. He is a graduate of the Mociska Art School in the piano and guitar classes, as well as Bachelor degree studies at the S. Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdansk, where he acquired carillon playing skills in the class of Dr. Monika Kazmierczak. He is currently continuing his studies in second degree studies.

WOJCIECH KOWAL  

has been playing the accordion since he was 6 years old. A member of the Pulsanti accordion orchestra, a graduate of the accordion class at the Academy of Music in Gdansk and a student of Church Music. As part of his scholarships, he also studied at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen (Germany), Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Boito in Parma (Italy) and did graduate training at the Conservatorio Superior de Mùsica de Aragón in Zaragoza (Spain). He performs in Poland and abroad, including Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain and Lithuania.

guitarist, composer and vocalist from Gdańsk.
She has won multiple awards in national and international guitar competitions. Zuzanna is also connected with Salzburg and London, where, among other things, she honed her guitar skills at University Mozarteum Salzburg and film composition at Kingston University London. In 2020, together with the UK-based creative group Acid Grass Records, Susanna released 'EP 2020′ – a mini-album of original guitar and vocal music, and in 2022 the production 'I Was Melting That Way / ULGA’. During the Gdańsk Carillon Festival in 2022 and 2023, you could hear the first arrangements of Zuzanna’s pieces for solo carillon and for an unusual ensemble of classical guitar and carillon. Again, for this year’s festival, Zuzanna will present further musical proposals for solo carillon, guitar and carillon and… accordion.
The creative process of the new musical arrangements has been recognized by the Cultural Scholarship of the City of Gdańsk.