We would like to invite all participants of the Symposium to the Baroque concert "Cantare e suonare – Italian music of the XVIII century" in Collegium Maius of the Jagiellonian University on Monday, 24 June 2019.
Performers
Anna Zawisza (soprano)
Anna completed the Music High School in Tarnów, Poland, taking majors in double bass and classical singing. Further on, she graduated with honours from the Voice and Drama Faculty at the Academy of Music in Krakow. In 2004, she was a holder of the scholarship granted by the Polish Ministry of Culture. Following graduation, she has been developing her skills with Ingrid Kremling, Neil Semer, Kai Wessel, Charles Daniels, and Vincent Dumestre. Her field of expertise includes performance of early and contemporary music. For many years, she has been collaborating with such ensembles as: Gabrieli Consort, Capella Cracoviensis, Silva Rerum, Harmonia Sacra, Ara Ensemble, and the Polish Radio Choir, conducted by renowned conductors: Paul McCreesh, Paul Goodwin, Andrew Parrot, Vincent Dumestre, and Helmut Rilling. Among her greatest achievements, she names participation in the most prominent festivals in Poland, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Czechia, Norway, and Lithuania. She has also performed in Japan and China. Anna has been featured in numerous studio recordings, including music for the play “Lucia Mad”, directed by Magdalena Piekorz, and “Carnival or the First Wife of Adam”, both of which premiered in the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow, an album titled “Muzykalia Łańcuckie” [Music Collections of Łańcut], and four albums recorded for Musicon label with music discovered in the Jasna Góra Monastery. She has been pursuing her passion unceasingly by taking part in many music and theatre projects, as well as experimenting in popular music ensembles.
Anna Śliwa (baroque violin)
Anna Śliwa is violinist of versatile interests, passionate about musical education of youngest children. She graduated from the Department of Instrumental Studies at the Academy of Music in Kraków at the faculty of modern violin and baroque violin. Anna specializes in solo and chamber repertoire of pieces of early music as well as in improvised performance of pieces of Pre-Renaissance and ethnic music relics. Together with the Camerata Cracovia ensemble, she was the first Polish to perform newly discovered works of a 17th-century Polish-German composer, Henryk Doebelius. In the repertoire of early music, she uses viola and baroque violin, lyre da braccio, viola d'amore, fiddle and pochette. Anna cooperates with most Polish early music ensembles, including Ars Cantus, Concerto Polacco, Il Tempo, as well as an Austrian ensemble, Pandolfis Consort Wien. Since 2007, she has been leading Intrada historical instruments ensemble, cooperating closely with Cracovia Danza Court Ballet, performing mainly music associated with dance and other forms of stage performances. Anna worked as a violinist in the Capella Cracoviensis ensemble, and as a violist in the Antique Collegium Musicae Varsoviense Early Instruments Ensemble at Warsaw Chamber Opera. She has participated in numerous recordings as well as in prestigious festivals such as Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart, Arte Sintesi Enschede, Wratislavia Cantans, Festiwal van Vlaanderen Brugge, Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music; she performed at Expo 2003 and during the Polish Year in Paris. A separate area of her activity is violin pedagogy. She teaches violin at the Mieczysław Karłowicz Complex of State Music Schools in Kraków; moreover, Anna teaches baroque violin and viola d'amore at the Witold Lutosławski Kraków Conservatoire.
Joanna Solecka (harpsichord)
Joanna Solecka has graduated from the Academy of Music in Cracow in Piano, Theory of Music and Harpsichord. As a pianist she has participated in masteclasses with K. Kenner, R. Buchbinder, B. Buckner, B. Kawalla and others. Her harpsichord studies she has completed under Professor Elżbieta Stefańska and afterwards she participated in early music interpretation courses with J. Ogg, T. de Goede, M. Kroll, A. Bottichen and L. Stawarz. In her professional life Joanna Solecka is trying to join all experience gained from all areas of her education, as a professor of theory of music and instrumental studies, as an artist and promotor of culture. Joanna Solecka is the author of many entries to the Encyclopaedia of Music (Polish Music Publishing). She also teaches harpsichord and early music in B. Rutkowski Music School in Cracow. Joanna plays in concerts and festivals in Poland and abroad, performing chamber music and solo parts. She has cooperated with Cracow Opera, and Ballet “Cracovia Danza”. In chamber music she focuses on historical performance, cooperating with musicians playing historical instruments, but she also works with artists that represent the modern performing style. Her repertoire spans from renaissance to contemporary music. She plays in various chamber formations, including a harpsichord duo (ClaveDuo). Together with M. Kraft, Joanna Solecka had made the first full Polish translation of the C. Ph. E. Bach’s Veruch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen (An Assay on the True Art of Playing the Keyboard Instruments) published by Astraia, Cracow in 2017. In the same year Joanna Solecka obtained the doctor degree.
Tomasz Potaczek (traverso)
Tomasz Paweł Potaczek in the year 2009 graduated with distinction from the Academy of Music in Kraków. He studied traverso flute taught by Małgorzata Wojciechowska and later by Peter Holtslag. From the very beginning of his studies he participated in numerous early music courses conducted by, among others, Rachel Brown, Lucie Duškova, Peter Holtslag, Jana Semerádova, Jed Wentz and Małgorzata Wojciechowska. He is a member of the Halina Czerny-Stefańska and Ludwik Stefański Music Society. As traverso flutist, he is a co-founder of the early music ensemble, Estravaganza. Moreover, he cooperates with a court ensemble Consortium Sedinum, Capella Cracoviensis, Kraków Philharmonic, as well as early music ensembles such as Ensamble Barocum, Risonanza, Intrada and Cracovia Danza Court Ballet. In 2003, Tomasz Potaczek completed studies in psychology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He is a member of the Polish Psychologist's Association and the Polish Association for Psychodynamic Therapy, and since 2004 he has been working as a psychologist and psychotherapist, developing at the same time his musical abilities and giving concerts. In the years 2005 - 2014, Tomasz Paweł Potaczek participated in many stage performances as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral flutist in the country as well as abroad (the Netherlands, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, Ukraine and Slovenia).
Programme
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741) Trio D – Dur, RV84
Allegro, Andante, Allegro
Domenico Scarlatti (1685 – 1757) Sonata A –Dur, K 114
Antonio Vivaldi Cantata „All'ombra di sospetto”, RV 678
Antonio Vivaldi Sonata B – dur, RV 759
Preludio-Largo, Allemanda-Allegro, Sarabanda-Largo, Corrente-Allegro
Domenico Scarlatti Sonata F – Dur, K 44
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 – 1725) Recitative and aria "Teco mesta tortorella" from cantata "Quella pace gradita"
