About this Event
Following on from the two previous sold-out Festivals, the third Annual Chopin Festival returns once more to the Polish Social and Cultural Centre POSK, in London, on Saturday the 19th October 2024, with a truly impressive programme of not only wonderful Chopin Music played by the finest pianists from Poland, but also a complementary programme including Chopin lectures and an exhibition about the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.
The Gala Concert and highlight of the Chopin Festival features –
Aleksandra Świgut
A participant of the XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. A graduate of and a teacher at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, a prize-winner and laureate of numerous special prizes of the 17th International Edward Grieg’s Competition in Bergen (2022). She is a prize-winner of the 1st International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw (2018). She has won many prizes in piano competitions for young pianists, including at the Polish Chopin Competition in Warsaw. Aleksandra has performed at many international Festivals e.g. in Nohant and at the Chopin Genève Festival;performed with Orchestras e.g. the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. She has recorded three albums.
Piotr Pawlak
Winner of the V May Lind International Piano Competition in Helsinki (2022), the XI International Chopin Piano Competition in Darmstadt (2017), laureate of Chopin Competitions in Beijing (2016), Budapest (2018),Cracow (2019), the International Competition of Polish Music in Rzeszów (2019), the International Paderewski Competition in Bydgoszcz (2022) and the International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw (2023). He has played amongst others with the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra, the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Piotr performs frequently in Poland alongside orchestras, such as the Warsaw National Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Zielona Góra and the Toruń Symphony Orchestra. He has performed on such stages as the Berliner Philharmonic, Sala Verdi in Milano and the Teatro alla Scala.
Mateusz Dubiel
He won first place and four specialty prizes in the 27th International Fryderyk Chopin Competition for Children and Youths in Szarfarnia (a favourite holiday place of Chopin as a teenager). Mateusz is a laureate of the 12th “Arthur Rubinstein” International Competition for Young Pianists in Bydgoszcz (2021). He gained first Place in the 6th International Chopin Carpathian Foothills Competition in 2022, was a winner in the Fryderyk Chopin General Competition in Warsaw (2022) and a laureate of the Third International Piano Competition “Jeune Chopin” in Lugano, Switzerland—sponsored by Martha Argerich (2023). He has performed extensively across Poland and abroad.
Dominika Mak
Dominika Mak is currently undertaking the Master of Arts course at the Royal Academy of Music. While completing her BA and MPhil in Music at Trinity College, Cambridge, Dominika became the Artistic Director of the Trinity College Music Society and a Chopin scholar. As an undergraduate, Dominika was a laureate of the National EPTA Competition, the Edith Leigh Prize and the Birmingham Conservatoire John Ireland Prize.
Other Festival Events
This event is part of The Chopin Festival 2024, a captivating programme of events taking place at the Polish Social and Cultural Centre POSK, in London, on 19 October 2024:
• 3.30-4.15pm - FREE - Talk by Lady Rose Cholmondeley “Mysteries surrounding Fryderyk Chopin" - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-chopin-festival-2024-talk-by-lady-rose-cholmondeley-tickets-974023489477
• 4.30-5.15pm - FREE - Talk by Prof. John Rink “The Young Chopin" – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-chopin-festival-2024-talk-by-prof-john-rink-on-the-young-chopin-tickets-974060249427
• 6.30-8.30pm - Gala Concert - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-chopin-festival-2024-gala-concert-tickets-965196216867
• 8.30-10.30pm - Chopin Jazz - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-chopin-festival-2024-chopin-jazz-tickets-973854443857
19 - 28 October 2024 – FREE EXHIBITION - “The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition”, presented by The Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw and the POSK Library, on display 19-28 October 2024 - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-chopin-festival-2024-chopin-exhibition-tickets-973935155267
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Polish Social and Cultural Association POSK, 238-246 King Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 20.00 to GBP 30.00