Annual Christmas Holiday Concert

Jadwiga Kotnowska, flute (Poland), The New Britain Chorale
Mozart: Flute Conc. in G-major, excerpts from the Messiah, Christmas carols

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 7:30 PM - WELTE HALL, CCSU, NEW BRITAIN

Sunday, DECEMBER 20, 7:00 PM - Saint Patrick's Church, Glen Cove NY

co-prod. with: Polish Studies, CCSU, Chopin Foundation of NY

Program:

Frederic Chopin: Valse Brillante, Op. 34/1 (arr. Roger Branga)

W. A. Mozart: Concerto for Flute No. 1 in G, K. 313/285c

G. Bizet - F. Borne: Carmen Fantasy

    Intermission

George Frideric Handel: Overture from "Messiah"

Polish Traditional Carol: "Wsród Nocnej Ciszy"

Polish Traditional Carol: "Oj, Maluski"
George Frideric Handel: "Glory to God" from "Messiah"

Polish Traditional Carol: "Triumfy Króla Niebieskiego"

Italian Traditional Carol: "Tu scendi dalle stelle"
George Frideric Handel: "Hallelujah" from "Messiah"
Polish Traditional Carol:  "Lulajże Jezuniu"
 

Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra

Jadwiga Kotnowska, flute

Members of the New Britain Chorale

Adrian Sylveen M., conductor

About the Soloist:

A laureate of top prizes in seven international contests, including the Queen Sofia Music Competition in Madrid, the Maria Canals Competition in Barcelona, the G.B.Viotti Competition in Vercelli, the V. Bucchi Competition in Rome, she also won a Gold Medal and a Grand Prix at the Festival in Bordeaux.
Apart of her studies at the F. Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw, she mastered her skills under Maestro Aurele Nicolet in Switzerland, Jean-Pierre Rampal and Alain Marion in France.
She gave concerts at such venues as the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the Lincoln Center in NYC, the Tivoli Hall in Copenhagen, the Grieg Hall in Bergen (at the Bergen International Festival), the Palau de Musica in Barcelona, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Purcell Room in London, De Doelen in Rotterdam, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Warsaw Philharmonic and at festivals, including the Bergen Festival-Grieg, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival (Finland), KLCC in Kuala Lumpur ,The Warsaw Autumn, The Premiere Festival in Katowice, the Krzysztof Penderecki Festival in Kraków or the Mozart Festival in Warsaw.

In her native Poland she is usually the soloist of choice for premieresof flute concertos of contemporary composers such as Mikolaj Górecki(2005) , Krzesimir Dębski (1998), Aleksander Szczetyński (1999), Maciej Małecki (2006), Dariusz Przybylski (2009), Piotr Wróbel (2008), Marta Ptaszyńska (2008). These compositions were written especially for her.
The artist performed these concertos with such orchestras as the National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice during "Premieres Festival", the National Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra led by Marek Moś.
She was the first Polish flutist to perform Henryk Mikolaj Górecki’s flute concerto (with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Moscow Philharmonic) and the Krzysztof Penderecki`s flute concerto conducted by the composer. She also gave concerts with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon under Claudio Schimone and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders in Antwerp.
Jadwiga Kotnowska also participates in projects blending classical music and jazz, working together with acclaimed jazzmen such as Andrzej Jagodziński, Krzysztof Herdzin and Vitold Rek.
She has been recording for the radio in Spain, France, Switzerland, Holland and the U.S., and CDs for Polskie Nagrania, MDG, Quantum (Paris) , Scotstown Music (Edynburgh), Tonpress (a CD with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Mercadante’s Concerto nominated for the Fryderyk Prize).
The artist is a professor at the Feliks Nowowiejski Music Academy in Bydgoszcz (Poland), she has been giving master classes in the USA, Malaysia, Finland, France and at the Royal College of Music in London.
 

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The New Britain Chorale was founded in 1971 by Lorraine Revelle under the auspices of the New Britain Area Conference of Churches (NEWBRACC). Its first concerts were held at St. Mary’s Church. A six-year hiatus (1974-1979) was ended with the Chorale performing in 1980. Since that date the Chorale has provided the people of the greater New Britain area with 19 successive programs, with Holy Cross Church as one of its venues, and has been at the First Lutheran Church since 2001. The mission of the Chorale is to address the spiritual needs of the community through music. The Chorale is unique in that it is open to all singers who desire the experience of singing the music of “the Masters” in a large group setting, and with orchestral accompaniment. The chorale is a community choir open to all singers who enjoy the experience of singing the music of “the Masters”.