25.07 – Friday – 8:30 pm

/ the tower of St. Catherine’s Church /

Brass&Bells

Hevelius Brass:
Paweł Hulisz, Piotr Kowalkowski
/ trumpets
Michał Szczerba
/ horn
Dominik Łukaszczyk
/ trombone
Grzegorz Dybała
/ tuba

Monika Kaźmierczak
/ carillon

Program:

Jos Lerinckx (1920-2000)
Fantasy for Brass and Bells

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Allegro z Koncertu nr 8 z L’Estro Armonico (opr. A. Jurek)

Carillon solo:
William Croft (1678-1727)
Ground from Suite III (opr. M. Kaźmierczak)

Jerzy Fryderyk Haendel (1685-1759)
Koncert organowy F-dur op.4 nr 5: Larghetto, Allegro, Alla Siciliana, Presto (opr. K. Wellens)

Geert D’hollander (*1965)
Bell canto

Carillon solo:
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)
Psalm 23 (parts) SwWV 310 (opr. B. Winsemius)

Carl van Eyndhoven (*1959)
Valerius Suite

Trad.
Should Auld Acquaintance

Ok. godz.21:15
Jakub Nikiel (*1990)
Echa Gdańska (2016) na carillon, elektronikę i Fontannę Heweliusza

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.

HEVELIUS BRASS

(Paweł Hulisz, Piotr Kowalkowski – trumpets, Michał Szczerba – French horn, Dominik Łukaszczyk – trombone, Grzegorz Dybała – tuba) is a brass quintet from Gdańsk. The quintet is made up of musicians who are members of Tri-City orchestras: the Musical Theater in Gdynia and the Baltic Philharmonics, as well as academic lecturers and students of the Gdansk Music Academy.
The ensemble is the winner of the 6th National Competition of Chamber Ensembles in Warsaw and the 1st place of the 2005 Music Forum for Young People in Gdansk. In 2005 and 2006 it participated in master classes at the Blekinge International Brass Academy in Karlskrona, Sweden.
Hevelius Brass has toured with Illinois Brass – the oldest and one of the world’s best-known quintets, whose members include professors and lecturers at American universities, including Ronald Romm, co-founder of Canadian Brass. It also participated in many public events.
Together with Monika Kazmierczak, a city carillonist, they create a unique musical project on a European scale. Looking for new ideas for artistic projects, the musicians of Hevelius Brass reach for more and more new performance means. HBQ’s repertoire includes concert programs associated with soloists (soprano and bass), DJ, choir, jazz section, or symphony orchestra.