2.08 – Friday – 8:30 pm
/ the tower of St. Catherine’s Church /
Wood & Bronze 2.0 – Structures
Katarzyna Czubek
/ flutes
Anna Kasprzycka
/ carillon
Program:
Jacob van Eyck (1590-1657)
Der Fluyten Lust-hof (Fletowy ogród rozkoszy):
Fantazja i echo
Questa dolce sirena (opr. A. Abbenes)
Vierde Carileen
Struktury – miasta
Anna Kasprzycka (*1978)
Sounds of Kaunas na carillon i taśmę (2020), wersja na flety, carillon i elektronikę (2021)
Ryszard Alzin (*1991)
Nokturn Gdański (2021)
Struktury – wariacje i fantazja
Jan Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Wariacje Goldbergowskie BWV 988: Aria i wybór wariacji
Łukasz Jankowski (*1981)
Fantazja na temat The Tears of Muses A. Holborne’a
Struktury materii
Tom Gurin (*1994)
Sings like Iron (Śpiewa jak żelazo)
Agnieszka Stulgińska (*1978)
Structures and Reverberations / Struktury i rozdźwięki (światowe prawykonanie)
The composition Structures and Reverberations / Structures and Dissonances by Agnieszka Stulgińska was co-financed from funds of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Fund for Promotion of Culture – a state earmarked fund, as part of the program “Composer Orders”, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance
is a duo of instrumentalists with ties to Gdańsk, Poland, who inaugurated their activities in 2017 during the Gdańsk Carillon Festival. The ensemble specialises in performance of Renaissance and Baroque music as well as contemporary music. The duo’s collaboration began with the person of Jacob van Eyck (1590-1657), a blind flutist from Utrecht, whose brilliant hearing helped the famous bellfounders Hemony to tune harmoniously their first carillon.
The duo has premiered many pieces: Richard Alzin 'Gdańsk Nocturne’ (world premiere); Łukasz Jankowski „Fantasia on The Tears of Muses by A. Holborne” (world premiere); Jorit Taminga „Heart of Glass” (Polish premiere).
is a Polish carillonist and sound engineer, carillonist at the Parish Church (Berlin) since 2021. She is the first woman appointed to this position in Berlin. As a carillonist, she also gives regular concerts on the carillon of the Basilica of Echternach, the only carillon in Luxembourg.
Anna has premiered numerous contemporary compositions (such as Ekomane, Marcoll, Stulgińska, Nahorny, Zimmermann). She is committed to attracting new audiences to carillon music: from tango events to children’s events with circus and puppet theatre; with repertoire ranging from medieval to pop music.
Anna graduated in music theory at the Academy of Music in Gdansk and in sound engineering at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Computer Technology in Warsaw.
She studied carillon playing in Gdańsk, Leuven and Mechelen (BE). She also trained in Leuven, Amersfoort and Middelburg. In 2014 she graduated summa cum laude from the Royal Carillon School 'Jeff Denyn’ in Mechelen (Belgium).
Anna Kasprzycka was a 2017 Carillon Fellow at Bok Tower Gardens in Florida.
She has performed on major carillons in Europe, the United States, Israel, Ukraine and Russia.
Anna forms the duo Wood&Bronze with Katarzyna Czubek (recorder), and regularly performs with other instruments and electronics.
She won second prize at the 2014 Carillon Competition in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (France) and third prize at the 2013 International Carillon Duo Competition in Zwolle (Netherlands). She is a scholarship holder of the Erasmus/Socrates programme and a recipient of scholarships from the Mayor of the City of Gdańsk and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
flutist, oboist and lecturer; she studied at the music conservatories in Amsterdam, Krakow, Verona and Wrocław. Since 2013 she has been an assistant in Erik Bosgraaf’s recorder class at the Academy of Music in Krakow, Poland, and a teacher at the B. Rutkowski Music School in Krakow, Poland; she has also collaborated with the Academy of Music in Gdansk, Poland.
Katarzyna Czubek is the originator of the Young Early Music Festival. Since 2018, she has continued this initiative as part of the activities of the Art Horizons Foundation, which she co-founded with the artist and activist Anna Jankowska from Gdańsk. As part of the festival, they organise the OPEN CALL – PROMUJEMY MŁODYCH competition, a programme supporting young early music ensembles.
