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2001-2002 Concert Season
New
Britain •
Hartford • New York • Other
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schedule)
New
Britain
First
Church of Christ, 830 Corbin Ave, New Britain
| Fri.
November. 23 8 PM
“As
you like it”
In Program: |
Fri.
January. 18 8 PM
Jaroslaw Nadrzycki violin In
Program: |
Fri.
March 8, 8 PM
In Program: |
Fri.
May 17, 8 PM
In Program: |
Hartford
Bushnell
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Fri.
Feb. 22nd, 7:30PM “Bushnell Premiere”  Theodore Arm violin In Program: |
Fri.
Apr 12th, 7:30PM “Vocal Fireworks” 
Monika Krajewska mezzo-soprano "Collegium Cantorum" Czestochowa Academic Choir Poland Program: TBA |
Fri,
May 31st, 7:30 PM
•
In
program chamber works for the smaller ensembles. |
New
York
Kosciuszko
Foundation Hall
New York Season Debut !!!
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Sunday,
Jan. 20th, 3 PM
In Program: |
Saturday,
March 16th, 8 PM
In program: |
Sunday,
May 19th, 3 PM In Program:
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Other
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In
Memory
of Prof. Blejwas In
Program: |
Virtuosi & the New Britain Chorale In Memory of Judith Brown Sun.
March 24
In
Program: Concert free of charge |
Concert programs and remaining details will be posted soon.
Biographic Notes of Soloists:
Polish
born Roman Markowicz began his musical education in Warsaw studying piano with
Jan Wobazil and later at the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music with Prof. Maria
Wilkomirska. In 1968 political circumstances forced Mr. Markowicz and his family
to leave Poland and resettle in the United States. He continued his studies as
scholarship student of solo and chamber music repertory at the Manhattan school
of Music with Arthur Balsam. Upon graduation with honors, he received the Harold
Bauer Award. He later studied at the Julliard school with Ania Dofrman and for
many years he remained there as a stuff pianist.
As
a soloist and chamber musician Mr. Markowkicz performed throughout the United
States, a number of European countries, and in Brasil. Today, Mr. Markowicz, in
addition to performing, works as a music educator and as a music critic for
“Nowy Dziennik” (Polish Daily News). His CD of Beethoven’s “Diabelli”
Variations is available on the “Musika” Label
Hadari is aptly described as one of the brilliant up-and-coming violinists in the area. He began violin studies at the age of five with Paul de Kayser and Vanya Milanova in London. He won a coveted music scholarship which enabled him to attend the Haberdashers' Aske's School in Borehamwood, Elstree, and at the age of 13 moved to Cape Town, South Africa where he continued his studies. There, he performed in numerous concerto and chamber music performances, including Shostakovich's first Violin Concerto with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. Hadari, former concertmaster of the Meadows Symphony and the Irving Symphony orchestras in Texas, is very active in contemporary music, performing both the classic twentieth century compositions and premiering many new works. He attended the New York String Seminar and the Norfolk Chamber Music and Contemporary Music Festivals, and also was a member of the Young Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra and was invited to play the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Orquestra Clasica do Porto in Portugal. He is currently studying under full scholarship at the Yale School of Music under Syoko Aki where he is very active in all areas of music.
Cellist
Jennifer Combs studied in Leonard Rose’s class at the Juilliard School.
She earned her Master’s degree from Northern Illinois University, where
she studied with Marc Johnson of the Vermeer Quartet.
Currently on the faculty of the Hartford Conservatory, performing as a
chamber musician, recitalist and soloist, Ms. Combs is also a member of the
Hartford Symphony.
As
a founding member of the Oberon String Quartet in residence at Virginia
Commonwealth University, she has participated in numerous chamber music
festivals including the Skaneateles Festival, the Garth Newel Music Center and
the Eastern Music Festival. Ms.
Combs has, for the last two seasons, been artistic director of the Hartford
Conservatory’s chamber music seminar at Music Mountain in Falls Village,
Connecticut. In the last four years
she has appeared as a soloist with the Connecticut Valley Chamber Orchestra with
works of Elgar, Faure, John Riley, and Shostakovitch.
As
a member of the New World Chamber Ensemble, Ms. Combs is involved in outreach
activities and has organized educational concerts for children sponsored by the
Bushnell’s “Partners” program.
Audiences
throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan have responded with
warmth and excitement to the artistry of violinist Theodore Arm. He has appeared
as soloist, recitalist and has been guest artist with such well known
organizations as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Group for
Contemporary Music and Bargemusic Ltd. Mr. Arm has been a member of the highly
acclaimed chamber group TASHI since 1976 and has performed with Lukas Foss,
Chick Corea and Gary Burton among others. He has had works written for him, most
recently a violin concerto by Allan Leichtling and a suite for violin and piano
by David Schiff.
Mr.
Arm, who performs on an Andreas Guarneri violin dated 1652, is a favorite of
summer chamber music festival audiences. This past season, he performed with
Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon, Music from Angel Fire in New
Mexico, the "Bravo" Festival in Vail, Colorado, and taught and
performed at the renowned Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School of Blue Hill, Maine.
In
1992 he returned to Japan to take part in performances and chamber music
coaching at the Moon Beach Festival in Okinawa and Tokyo with artists from
Europe and Asia. Mr. Arm has recorded for RCA, Delos, Musical Heritage Society
and EMC. He can be heard on the University of Connecticut recording project in a
work by Sidney Hodkinson with Paul Phillips conducting the UConn Orchestra. He
is a professor of violin at the University of Connecticut. Mr. Arm holds a
doctorate in performance from the Juilliard School, where he studied with
Christine Dethier and Joseph Fuchs.
Mezzo-Soprano,
Monika Krajewska is a winner of numerous prizes and awards at several vocal
competitions, including Giuseppe Verdi Prize at Palm Beach Opera, the first
prize winner of MTNA performance competition,
winner of Sembrich- Kochanska Voice Competition in New York
that resulted in inviting her to Internationale Moniuszko Voice
Competition in Poland., the first prize winner at Amici Vocal Competition, the
Rosa Ponselle Scholarship Winner and the recepient of Yale University
Scholarship.
Monika
sung many operatic roles such as: Niclausse in Offenbach’s Les Contes
d’Hoffmann, Principessa in Suor Angelica, Rosina in Il Barbiere
di Siviglia, Third Lady in Die Zauberflote, and Meg Page in Verdi’s
Falstaf. f In various opera
scenes programs, Monika has appeared as Carmen, Cenerentola, Dorabella (Cosi
Fan Tutte), Marina ( Boris Godunov), Charlotte ( Werther),Judith
(Bluebeard’s Castle), Cherubino ( Le Nozze di Figaro), among
others. A multiple award recipient, Monika has sung with Poznan Opera, Palm
Beach Opera, Des Moines Opera Metro, Aspen Opera Theater and Yale Opera. She was
a soloist at Lincoln Center Polish
Music Festival, at the Festival of Russian Music in Amherst, Massachusetts ,
Caramoor Festival (New York) as well as in Weimar Music Festival (Germany).
Last
year, she made her Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist in Mozart’s Requiem.
During last summer, Monika sang in Europe the part of Carlotta in Il
Borgomastro di Saardam”by Donizetti under the direction of maestro Guliano
Carella from Arena di Verona. She also participated in Belcanto Festival in
Holland. At Yale she was heard in
the role of Der Trommler in
Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von
Atlantis, Idamante in Idomeneo, Rosina In Il Barbiere di Siviglia.,
Laura in Tchaikovsky’s Jolanta as well as
Monika
is a recent winner of New Jersey State Opera International Competition.
Was born in 1984 in Zagan.
He started learning to play violin at the age of 6. At the age of 9 he won the third prize at the “Bacewicz” Polish Violinist Competition in Wroclaw, Poland. A year later, still being the youngest participant, he won the third prizes again at two national competitions; one in Olsztyn and the other in Gdansk.
Since 1996 Jaroslaw has remained under tutorial guidance of Prof. Jadwiga Kaliszew ska, and since 1998 he has been a student of the “Henry Wieniawski
School of Talent” Musical High Scholl in Poznan.
At the age of 12 he participated for the second time in a “Bacewicz” National Violin Competition .in Wroclaw, where he won Grand Prix and Gold Medal. As an additional reward he performed at the Polish Radio “Lutoslawski” Concert Studio in Warsaw.
In 1996 Jaroslaw won the second Prize at “Serwaczynski” National Young Violinist Competition in Lublin in the younger age group.
In spring 1997, by invitation of National Concert Bureau, he had pleasure to perform with Moscow Conservatory Orchestra in “Peter Tchaikovsky” Great Hall in Moscow. Also in 1997 he become a winner of the Grand Prix of the “Alexandra Januszajtis” memorial National Violin Competition in Gdansk And in November 1998 he participated In “Luis Spohr” International Violinist Competition. Weimar, Germany winning the Special Prize
In the beginning of 2001 Jaroslaw had won the First Prize, and Publicity Prize at the first International Violinist Competition in Vilnius organized to honor the 100th anniversary of Jasha Heifetz’s birthday. The President of Jury, famous violinist Gideon Kremer rewarded Jaroslaw with the Master course in Israel.
In March 2001 he recorded his first CD. He performed with many orchestras like Baltic Philharmonic, Wroclaw Philharmonic. Zielona Gora Philharmonic and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Lituenia. He cooperated with great teachers like Wanda Wilkomirska, Marina Jashvili, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Vadim Brodcki during the numerous Master courses.
He has been a scholarship beneficiary of the National Children‘s Fund and of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Fund.
In November 2001 He won the fifth prize at the Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Poznan, Poland.
Krzysztof
Kowalewski is a first prize winner in the 1999 Connecticut District Auditions for the Metropolitan Opera National Council. He is also a laureate of the 1997 Ada Sari International Vocal Competition.
He began his professional career in 1996 with a performance in the Warsaw Chamber Opera’s production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. In 1997 he appeared as Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at Bydgoszcz’s Opera Nova, in Poland. He has performed in numerous operas by the leading Polish operatic composer Stanislaw Moniuszko and has appeared in many song recitals and oratorio concerts throughout Europe.
In 1999, he performed at the International Music Festival in Caramoor, New York where he sang the part of Giorgio in Rossini’s La Gazza Ladra.
Mr. Kowalewski graduated with a Masters Degree from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland, where he studied under Prof. Wlodzimierz Zalewski. He is currently enrolled in the Yale Opera Program where he is working under the auspices of Prof. Richard Cross. Most recently he has been cast as Colline in Yale Opera’s production of La Boheme by Puccini.
