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15-17 October 2020 Karlskrona International Piano Festival brings world-class international pianists to perform in the beautiful setting of the historic city of Karlskrona. The festival will embrace different themes, celebrating composer anniversaries, musical styles, countries, or historical events, and promoting the works of Swedish composers and international women composers. Each festival will be opened by the host of the Festival, the celebrated Swedish pianist Peter Jablonski.
Programme
Karlskrona International Piano Festival brings world-class international pianists to perform in the beautiful setting of
the historic city of Karlskrona. The festival will embrace different themes, celebrating composer anniversaries, musical
styles, countries, historical events, and promoting the works of Swedish composers and international women
composers. The organisers of the festival believe that music and art are democratic. Talent for music does not depend
on gender or nationality, and so we aim to encourage young women composers and performers from different
backgrounds and walks of life to find their places in the music profession. Another aim of the festival is to present a
wide range of music: together with well-known repertoire the artists will perform long-forgotten, neglected, or still
waiting to be discovered works, written by international composers, as well as giving world premieres of pieces written
by their contemporaries today. In this way, the festival will be an all-embracing celebration of piano music.
15 October, Thursday
Galjonshallen, Marine Museum, 17.30
World and Swedish premieres meet well known, forgotten, and new piano music in this opening concert. A selection of
piano pieces by a French composer Christian Schittenhelm are followed by a Prélude by a 19th-century musical celebrity
Augusta Holmès. Anton Rubinstein’s Piano Sonata No 1 will most likely be another Swedish premiere, which will lead
the way to the celebration of Beethoven in the second half, with his iconic ‘Moonlight’ Sonata and one of the last
sonatas he wrote, Op 109, which leads our imaginations to the worlds beyond ours.
Peter Jablonski (Sweden)
Christian Schittenhelm Valse de rien
A bad e could be the best
Philou is a fox
(World premieres)
Augusta Holmès Prélude Ce Que l’on entendit dans la
nuit de noël (Swedish premiere)
Anton Rubinstein Piano Sonata no 1
INTERVAL
Mats Widlund (Sweden) L. van Beethoven Piano Sonata Op 27 No 2, ‘Moonlight’
Piano Sonata Op 109.16 October, Friday
Galjonshallen, Marine Museum, 17.30
A varied programme of music written by composers who were also all great pianists, from Clara Schumann to Frederik
Chopin. Two young pianists from Sweden and Poland will be perform brilliant and virtuosic compositions in the first
half, with the second given to the piano star of Warsaw, the 92-year-old Lidia Grychtołwna, who brings more Polish
music to Karlskrona audiences from Chopin to Szymanowski.
Sebastian Iivonen (Sweden) Clara Schumann Nocturne F Major Op.6 No.2
Prokofiev Four Etudes Op 2
Liszt Après une lecture du Dante
Anna Hajduk (Poland) Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise
Brilliante
INTERVAL
Lidia Grychtołowna (Poland) Chopin Mazurkas op. 59, Waltz E flat major op. 18,
Waltz A flat major op. 34 no. 1
Szymanowski Etude B Flat minor op. 4 no.3
Paderewski Minuet G major op. 14 no. 1
Brahms Intermezzo A major op. 118 no. 2,
Intermezzo B Flat minor op. 117 no. 2
Debussy Clair de lune, La plus que lente
17 October, Saturday
Galjonshallen, Marine Museum, 17.30
The festival closes with a concert of two piano trios, written for violin, cello, and piano. Smetana’s romantic and
passionate trio will be followed by a dark and tormented trio by Shostakovich, written in 1944 during Second World
War, during the times of immense personal struggle.
Brusk Zanganeh (violin, Sweden/Kurdistan) Smetana Piano Trio in E Minor Op 15
Per Nyström (cello, Sweden)
Peter Jablonski (piano, Sweden) Shostakovich Piano Trio No 2 in E Minor Op 67ORGANISERS AND SPONSORS Artistic Director Managing Director Peter Jablonski Anastasia Belina Award-winning Swedish pianist Peter Jablonski has been in demand on international stages for three decades, having performed with over 150 leading orchestras and conductors worldwide. His extensive discography on Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Philips, and most recently, Ondine, includes a wide range of piano repertoire. His achievements have been recognised by the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, who awarded him the Litteris et Artibus medal in 2005 for services to culture. In 1996, Jablonski was already a winner of the prestigious prize Årets Svensk i Världen (International Swedish Personality of the Year), receiving it before ABBA and Astrid Lindgren. Anastasia Belina is a published writer, BBC broadcaster, presenter, and opera director. In her varied career she gained expertise in arts and higher education management, communication, research, and strategic planning. Her areas of expertise cover a wide spectrum of topics, including nineteenth-century music, Russian and British opera, operetta, and, last but not least, the contribution to the world music heritage made by female composers and musicians. She is particularly interested in exploring the work of Swedish composers such as Valborg Aulin, Elfrida Andrée, Laura Netzel, and Ruth Almén, among others. Anastasia is committed to contributing to the cultural life in Karlskrona and bringing audiences together in a variety of international world-class performances.
Artists Peter Jablonski is an award-winning internationally acclaimed Swedish pianist. Discovered by Abbado and Ashkenazy and signed by Decca in his seventeenth year, he went on to perform, collaborate, and record with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, which include the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Mariinsky, La Scala Philharmonic, Tonhalle Zurich, Orchestre Nationale de France, NHK Tokyo, DSO Berlin, Warsaw Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Cleveland Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Valery Gergiev, Andris Nelsons, Daniel Harding, Kurt Sanderling, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, and Myung-Whun Chung, to name a few. He has performed and recorded the complete piano concertos by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Bartók, and all piano sonatas by Prokofiev. Hailed an ‘unconventional virtuoso’ (Present Arts), during his three-decade-long career he developed a diverse repertoire that includes works by Barber, Gershwin, Szymanowski, Lutosławski, Copland, Stenhammar, with most recent additions of such Scandinavian and European composers as Valborg Aulin, Elfrida Andrée, Laura Netzel, Johanna Müller-Hermann, and Alexey Stanchinsky. He worked with composers Witold Lutosławski and Arvo Pärt, and had a number of works composed for, and dedicated to him, including Wojciech Kilar’s Piano Concerto, for which he won the Orpheus award for the world premiere performance at the Warsaw Autumn Festival. He remains a supporter of today’s composers and regularly gives world premieres of new works, together with those that have been neglected by music history. Jablonski’s extensive discography includes recordings he has made for Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Philips, Altara, Octavia, and Ondine labels. He received numerous awards for his recordings, which include the Edison award for best concerto recording of Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto, Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and Lutoslawski’s Paganini Rhapsody with Ashkenazy and RPO for Decca. He was presented with the Grammophone Classical Music Award for his Deutsche Grammophone recording of works by Cécile Chaminade with Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg. Peter Jablonski is the recipient of the Litteris et Artibus medal for his services to culture, granted to him by the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf. He is also the winner of the prestigious prize Svenskar i Världen (International Swedish Personality of the Year), receiving it before ABBA and Astrid Lindgren. As a soloist Mats Widlund has regularly worked with all Sweden’s leading orchestras and with such conductors as Thomas Dausgaard, Hans Graf, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Leonard Slatkin, Leif Segerstam and Bruno Weil. His many piano recitals have included a series of Mozart’s complete piano sonatas in the Stockholm Concert Hall. He has performed in Japan, USA and many
European countries. As a soloist Mats Widlund has made more than a hundred radio recordings and has also recorded Swedish piano music for several record companies. Particularly noteworthy are his recordings of Stenhammar’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Gennady Rozhdestvensky and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (Chandos Records), Rosenberg’s two Piano Concertos with Petter Sundqvist and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Daphne Records) and Dag Wirén’s Piano Concerto with Petri Sakari and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra (Caprice). He is artistic director of “The Chamber Serie” in Örebro Concert Hall and the Chamber Music Festival in Sandviken together with the flutist Tobias Carron. Mats Widlund was appointed professor at the Royal College of Music and Edsberg Manor 2002. He has been visiting professor at music academies Helsinki (Sibelius), Oslo, Tallin, Rome (Arts Academy) to name but a few. Sebastian Iivonen, born in 1997 in Stockholm, made his first public performance at the age of six. As a nine-year-old, Sebastian won his age category (8-11 years) in the Steinway Piano Competition 2007 in Stockholm and the following year made his orchestral debut in the Stockholm Concert hall with the Stockholm Youth Symphony Orchestra and conductor Glenn Mossop, playing Kabalevsky’s Third piano concerto. His first major recital was given at the age of twelve in ‘Centro Cultural’ Los Cristianos, Tenerife, at which he performed works by Bach, Mozart, Liszt, Grieg and Rachmaninoff. Sebastian has won many international piano competitions in Europe, such as Stockholm International Music Competition, Musical Fireworks (Germany), Music Without Borders (USA), Concours International de Piano (France), Young Artists 2016 (Sweden), Nilüfer PianoIMC, Bursa (Turkey) et al. Most recently Sebastian received a ‘Special Prize: Gold Medal for high level of musicality and performance’ at the 4th Manhattan International Music Competition 2019. Anna Hajduk-Rynkowicz graduated with honours from the piano class of Jerzy Romaniuk at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. In 2018 she completed post-graduate studies in piano with Maurizio Moretti at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. Her competition laurels include third prize in the 1st Leopold Godowsky International Piano Competition in Warsaw and, as a member of the Olympus Mons Trio, first prize in the ‘Grand Virtuoso Artist’ International Music Competition in Salzburg. She was also a finalist of the 3rd Villa de Xabia International Piano Competition in Spain. In 2018 she was selected to the 1st International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw. She performs regularly in Poland and abroad, specialising in Chopin and contemporary repertoire. She has performed in Belgium, France, Italy, Hungary and Cambodia. As a soloist, she has worked with the Sinfonia Iuventus orchestra of Poland, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and the Silesian Chamber Orchestra. In 2012, she received an award from the Mayor of Dąbrowa Górnicza for her achievements. Lidia Grychtołowna is a winner of the 7th award at the V Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warszawa (1955). She made her grand concert debut with the Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra in Katowice, with Stanisław Skrowaczewski conducting, in 1953. One year later, she debuted in England. She has played concerts in all the European countries, in North and South America, Asia and Australia. She has taken part in international music festivals in Duszniki, Dubrovnik, Bergen, Athens, Sorrento, Taormina, Perth, La Chaise-Dieu, Adelaide, Warszaw and many others. She was the first to perform Prokofiev's 4th Piano Concerto in B major, Op. 53 for left hand and orchestra in England (1967) and Belgium (1988).
She has recorded many discs for labels such as Polskie Nagrania 'Muza', Deutsche Grammophon and Phillips.the following works: Beethoven (Piano Concerto in E flat major WoO 4 – the first ever record LP of this composition), Chopin (Concerto in F minor, Four Impromptus, four scherzos, the complete waltzes, nocturnes and other), Schumann (Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13, Carnaval, Mozart (Piano Concertos KV 414 and 488), Wisłocki (Piano Concertos), Liszt, Rachmaninov, Liadov and Skriabin. After the release of the recording of Chopin's Impromptus and Scherzos, the music critic at the journal 'Diapason' wrote: 'An engaging and model album. Lidia Grychtołówna forces wonder by her vitality, her personality a la Martha Argerich. She knows how to play-out all the shades, all the colours and what else can one say: her unnerving strike, her staccato a-la-Horowitz, her tender lyricism, her wonderful phrasing.' Swedish/Kurdish violinist Brusk Zanganeh leads an active performing career as soloist and chamber musician. Since making his concerto debut at age twelve, Brusk has performed as soloist throughout north/south America, the UK, Asia, Middle East and continental Europe. He also has a genuine interest in Kurdish music tradition/improvisation and has played with renowned musicians in this genre. Today Brusk is violinist in Uppsala Kammarsolisterna and Concertmaster in Uppsala Chamber Orchestra.Brusk plays on a Gennaro Gagliano kindly on loan from the Järnåkerfonden and a P. Westerlund Violin. Per Nyström is a Swedish cellist, co-founder & artistic advisor of Old Ox Chamber Music, which in ten years has become one of the world’s biggest platforms for classical festivals & master classes, attracting the most sought- after classical artists and professors. Old Ox is an active influence in the international chamber music life by its extensive production of concerts, festivals, network building, and master classes for young artists from all over the world. He is the co-founder of The Yggdrasil String Quartet, 1990 – 2001, Sweden’s most internationally acclaimed and successful string quartet. The Yggdrasil Quartet emerged as one of the most exciting new string quartets in the 1990s and became a champion of new quartet music in Europe. After intense study with György Kurtág and Norbert Brainin the quartet were prizewinners in the major string quartet competitions in London and Melbourne. With several award-winning recordings the Yggdrasil Quartet started an international career with about 100 concerts a year worldwide, playing string quartet on a full-time basis with a repertoire embracing some 250 works. Their first recording was a set of string quartets by Icelandic composer Jon Leifs, which went on to win the Cannes MIDEM Award for the best chamber music disc of 1996. They also recorded the complete quartets of their countryman Franz Berwald. This release was nominated for a Gramophone Award. During 1995-2000 the Yggdrasil Quartet was Quartet in Residence at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, where the members are Honorary Fellows for life. Per is often engaged as principal cellist in many Nordic chamber – and symphony orchestras, and frequently invited as a guest soloist at international chamber music festivals. Per’s cello is a Giuseppe & Antonio Gagliano of Naples from 1796 on which he recently started to record all the Bach suites for solo cello. He was awarded the ‘Litteris et Artibus’ medal by the Swedish King for his achievements as a cellist in 2013.
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