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3.08 – Saturday – 12:05 pm

/ the tower of the Main Town Hall /

Singing Tower

Anna Kasprzycka (Gdańsk/Berlin/Luxembourg)

Program:

Preludium
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Koncert skrzypcowy op. 3 nr 3: Allegro (opr. J. Gouwens)

Renesansowa i barokowa wokalna na carillonie
John Dowland (ok. 1563-1626)
Now o now/ Frog Galliard

Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)
Che si può fare (Cóż począć?) z Arie a voce sola op. 8 (opr. J. Lory-Moran)

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
If music be the food of love (Gdybyż muzyka była miłości pokarmem, opr. B. Winsemius)

Johann S. Bach (1685-1750)
Aria na strunie GGawot I z suity orkiestrowej D-dur, BWV 1068 (opr. B. Winsemius)

Oryginalna muzyka carillonowa
Geert D’hollander (*1965): Suita sakralna (2018)
I. Da pacem Domine
II. Regina Coeli
III. Sancti Spiritus

Interludium
Adèle Colson (1905-1997)
Ave Maria

Dwa hymny religijne
Wilhelm Ritter (1950-2018)
Verleih uns Frieden (Daj nam pokój)

Paul Stelben (*1999)
Temat z „Jowisza” z Planet Gustawa Holsta zawierający hymn św. Kolumba

ANNA KASPRZYCKA 

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.

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XXVI Gdański Festiwal Carillonowy