20.07 – Saturday – 12:05 pm

/ the tower of the Main Town Hall /

Student prelude – students for the City

Alicja Pałka

Witold Maciak

Oskar Skorowski

Wojciech Podolski

Program:

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

Geert D’hollander (*1965)
The Wellesley Carillon Studies: III. A Melancholic Song

Witold Maciak

Geert D’hollander
Ludus Modalis I: Sorrowing

Duet Alicja Pałka, Witold Maciak

Yann Tiersen (*1970), opr. K. van Assche
Sur le fil (Na sznurku)
Comptine d’un autre ètè, l’après-midi (Rymowanka innego lata, po południu)

Duet Oskar Skorowski, Wojciech Podolski (Gdańsk)

Jan Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Chorał z kantaty Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (BWV 147)

Witold Maciak

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Psalm 23 (1, opr. B. Winsemius)

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
The Fairy Queen: Rondeau (opr. R. Barnes)

Oskar Skorowski

Oskar Skorowski (*2001)
Improwizacja na temat polskiej pieśni

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.

OSKAR SKOROWSKI   

born in 2001 in Gdańsk and associated with his hometown and the musical culture of the region. Student of Church Music at the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdansk. He learns to play the carillon with Dr. Monika Kazmierczak and participates in numerous courses in playing this instrument.

WOJCIECH PODOLSKI  

born in Gdansk, an economist by education, currenctly studies in the specialty of Church Music at the Stanislaw Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdansk. He is a liturgical organist. He sings in the 441 Hz choir in baritones. Privately a father of two adult sons.