26.07 – Saturday – 12:00 pm

/ the tower of the Main Town Hall /

No live-streaming!

St. Dominic’s Fair Opening Ceremony

Tubicinatores Gedanenses Ensemble
/ trumpets, timpani

Monika Kaźmierczak
/ carillon

Johann Balthasar Christian Freisslich (1687-1764)
Wesel się, Gdańsku – finał Kantaty na uroczysty dzień urodzin Najjaśniejszego i Wielmożnego Księcia i Pana Augusta III (carillon solo, opr. M. Kaźmierczak)

Paweł Hulisz (*1975)
Hejnał Jarmarku św. Dominika (w trakcie chorał Es woll uns Gott genädig sein – Niech Bóg będzie nam miłościw, wykonywany historycznie na gdańskich carillonach podczas otwarcia Jarmarku)

is a city carillonist of Gdańsk. She is a graduate of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk (Theory of Music, Church Music, Choir Conducting) and the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort (studies with Arie Abbenes and Bernard Winsemius). During her studies, she received several scholarships. She teaches carillon and other subjects at the Music Academy in Gdansk. Monika is a laureate of several international carillon competitions and a finalist of the 2008 Queen Fabiola competition. As a performer, she is internationally in demand, playing concerts in different countries. She collaborates on creative projects such as performing solo recitals for the acclaimed early music festival Actus Humanus in Gdańsk, premiering and recording pieces by leading Polish composers for Polish Music Editions, and performing regularly with tower trumpeters and top Gdańsk jazz players.
Monika is the founder and director of ongoing musical initiatives such as the Gdańsk Carillon Festival. Since 2012, Monika has held a doctor of arts degree, specialising in carillon playing. She is also active in Polish Carillon Society. In 2021, Monika was awarded the highest cultural prize in her city: Splendor Gedanensis and received the bronze medal for merit to culture – Gloria Artis. In 2022 her solo album, Contemporary Carillon, released by Polish Music Editions (Anaklasis series), was nominated for the most prestigious musical award in Poland – the Fryderyk Award.

TUBICINATORES GEDANENSES
(GDAŃSK TRUMPETERS)
 

is an ensamble consisting of musicians playing copies of historical instruments. The ensamble consists of four trumpeters: Paweł Hulisz, Piotr Kowalkowski, Emil Miszk and Filip Pysz, and the timpanist Paweł Szewczyk. For 8 years, the artists have been trying to reconstruct the old musical sound of Town by Motława, collaborating with municipal institutions such as the Baltic Sea Cultural Center, the Museum of Gdańsk, and the Gdańsk International Fair. Playing in the church and town hall towers, also accompanied by a carillon, they restore the beauty of Gdańsk tower music, the so-called Turmmusik, practiced in Gdańsk from the 15th century until the beginning of the 20th century. The musicians also refer to the centuries-old tradition of playing at the ceremonial opening and closing of the Dominican Fair. Paweł Hulisz composed a special bugle call for this occasion. In addition, in 2022 and 2023, the team prepared a historical version of the old Gdańsk tradition called Advent sounds from the towers (Adventsklänge aus den Türme). Gdańsk Trumeters have in their artistic output two albums with music performed from the towers of Gdańsk churches, as well as with original compositions for the set of historical trumpets. These are the only releases of this type on the Polish phonographic market, containing recordings for this characteristic, and at one time very popular, instrumental composition.