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“Songs from Exile”
November 11, 2002: Poland’s Independance Day
“Songs from Exile” - Opera Concert by:
Joanna Dobrakowska (mezzo-soprano),
Joanna Sperska (soprano)
and Marcin Koziel (piano)
Place: Ankara Palas - Devlet Konuk Evi, Ulus
Mr. Marek WYSOCZYNSKI who has established the MW Culture Promotion Office, and thanks to this institution continues his activities in favor of Polish artists as well as in favor of international collaboration in the field of culture. Aside from Joanna Sperska, Joanna Dobrakowska and Marcin Koziel, he also co-works with artists such as Aneta Lastik and Zofia Rysiowna, previously with Lucja Prus, Andrzej Hiolski. Also with old music ensembles Cappela Gedanensis and Ars Nova. He has organized exhibitions in Egypt, Croatia, chamber music concerts in Egypt, Slovenia, Tunisia, Turkey and Portugal at the invitation of Polish embassies, honorary Republic of Poland consulates, Polonia. These concerts took place in chamber halls, cathedrals as well as renowned concert halls such as Lisinski Hall in Zagreb. The Office's activity is supported by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Culture, Association Polonia and City Hall in Gdansk. The MW Culture Promotion Office awaits anyone who wishes to cooperate or support our endeavors: (contact e-mail address)
Marcin KOZIEL - graduate of the Academy of Music in Gdansk in Prof. Waldemar Wojtal's piano class. Participant of All-Poland pianist competitions and holder of the Chopin grant. He has sung in the Academic Choir of the
University of Gdansk, among other places in Germany, France, Korea and Italy. As a tenor, he collaborates with Capella Gedanensis that he has performed with in Germany, Croatia and Vatican before Pope John Paul II. He has also collaborated as a singer with the Polish Chamber Choir Schola Cantorum Gedanensis. As a pianist he has rendered with the Baltic Philharmonic. Since 1989 he has been employed as an organist in churches of the Gdansk Archdiocese. As an accompanist he performs first and foremost with Joanna Sperska and Joanna Dobrakowska in Poland, but also in Egypt, Portugal, Turkey, Tunis, Croatia, Slovenia and Guadelupe. He has provided accompaniment to the greatest Polish artist such as Lucja Prus, Andrzej Hiolski and Aneta
Lastik. He appeared with Zofia Rysiowna in music monodrama of "Slowacji I Chopin".[Slovakia and Chopin]. From 1999 to 2001 he kept improving his vocal craft under virtuoso Halina Mickiewicz. He appeared as a pianist in the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra at the Georgi Zemfir concert, and as a tenor he appeared as a soloist in Moniuszko's Ostrobrama Lithany with the Orchestra of Music Theatre and with the Slupsk Philharmonic Orchestra in Brahms's Creation of the World. With Culture Promotion Office associated since 1997.
Joanna DOBRAKWOSKA (mezzo-soprano) graduate of the Karol Lipinski Academy of Music in Wroclaw, in Bogdan Makal class (Dilpoma with recognition), she was also in Prof. Helena Lazarska class in Universitaet fuer Musik in Vienna. She was improving her vocal craft at master courses under distinguished educators: Rolando Panerai (Italy), Stefania Toczyska (Austria), Catherine Dagois (France), Krystyna Szostek-Radkowa and Eugeniusz Sasiadek (Poland). She is a prize-winner of Special Award from the Centre National d'Insertion Professionelle d'Artistes Lyriques at the Mikulas Trnavski International Vocal Competition in 2000 Slovakia. She has collaborated with old music ensembles: Collegio di Musica Sacra, Capella Gedanensis, Silesia Baroque Orchestra. Festivals: Vratislavia Cantans (final concerts of vocal courses) , 8th Passion Music in Opole, 39th International Moniuszko Festival in Kudowa Zdroj Opera shows: H. Purcell Didone and Eneas in Duszniki Zdroj and G.Rossini Italian in Algier in Walbrzych, Duszniki Zdroj and Kudowa Zdroj. Chambers concert in Guadeloupe, Slovenia, Croatia, Portugal, Turkey,Germany, Austria and France. Currently, as a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as well as holder of the Austrian Government grant, she continues studying singing in Prof. Helena Lazarska's class at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. With Culture Promotion Office associated since 1999.
Joanna SPERSKA - graduate of the Vocal-Actor Faculty of the Academy of Music in
Gdansk in Prof. Zofia Janukowicz-Poblocka's class. She was improving her vocal craft at master courses under
distinguished educators - Adele Stolte, Christian Elssner (Germany), Els Bolkestein (the Netherlands) and Renata Scotto and Katia Riciarelli (Italy). She is a prize-winner of the 2nd Vocal Competition in Duszniki
Zdroj and W. A. Mozart Competition in Gdansk (first prize). She has collaborated with the Baltic Philharmonic, Bialystok Philharmonic, academic orchestras of Gdansk and Wroclaw and with the Tel-Aviv Chamber Orchestra. In years 1994-1997 as a soloist of the Old Music Ensemble "Capella Gedanensis" she rendered in Germany, Denmark, Norwegia, Belgium, Russia and Israel. In 2001 she initiated collaboration with the Symphony Orchestra in Plock, which has given her the opportunity to sing a very infrequently performed baroque repertoire intended for solo soprano and piccolo trumpet. Since 1997 she has been associated with the Culture Promotion Office in Gdansk, which allowed her to appear with pianist Marcin Koziel in Poland, Egypt, Slovenia, Turkey, Tunis and Croatia. At present she collaborates with the Baltic Opera in Gdansk as well as with the Opera NOVA in Bydgoszcz.
Programme of Opera Concert Maria Szymanowska
· "Switezianka" (Lyrics: A. Mickiewicz)
Szymon Laks
· Two Jewish Songs:
Unser Rebeniu - Our Rabbi
In Droisn Is s Triber Tog - Lost Love
Henryk Opienski
· April Op. 3
Fryderyk Chopin
· Lithuanian Song Op. 74 no: 16 (Lyrics: L. Osinski)
Szymon Laks
· Two Songs (Lyrics: Julian Tuwim):
Prayer
Covenant
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
· On the Wide and Clear River
Ludomir Michal Rogowski
· I Sit Around, Thinking About You and Write... (Lyrics: Stanislaw Dlugosz)
Andrzej Panufnik
· Polish Suite "Hommage a Chopin":
Vivo
Postludium
Henryk Wars
· Sleep Well, Honey (Lyrics: Ludwik Starski)
INTERVAL
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
· Constanze's Aria: "Ach Ich Liebte" From Opera: "Escape From Harem"
Camille Saint-Saens
· Dalila's Aria "Printemps Qui Commence"
From Opera: "Samson and Dalila"
Jacques Offenbach
· Nicklausse und Giulietta - Duet
From Opera: "The Tales of Hoffmann"
Piotr Czajkowski
· Prilepa i Milowzor
- Duet From Opera: "The Queen of Spades"
Nevit Kodallý
· Menevþe (Lyrics: Karacaoðlan)
Nevit Kodallý
· Türkü (Lyrics: Karacaoðlan)
Leo Delibes
· Flower - Duet
From Opera: "Lakme"
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