Change in the Chopin Society of Atlanta’s concert this Saturday, September 29
Sara Daneshpour will perform tomorrow night at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center at 7:00 PM. She won first prize in the XII Concours International de Musique du Maroc (Morocco 2012), second prize in the 2007 William Kapell International Piano Competition, first prize and Gold Medal in the 2007 International Russian Music Piano Competition and first prize in the 2003 Beethoven Society of America Competition. She has toured the U.S. and Europe and has been heard at such prestigious venues as the Kennedy Center in her native Washington, D.C., Carnegie Hall in New York and the Great Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. See www.chopinatlanta.org for more details about the artist and the concert
Chopin Society of Atlanta present
Piano recital by Wojciech Świtała
Sep 29, 7:00 pm, Saturday
Roswell Cultural Arts Center
950 Forrest Street
Roswell, GA 30075
General Admission: $25 Seniors: $20 Students: $5
Buy tickets by phone: 770-641-1260 or online
www.chopinatlanta.org
About Wojciech Świtała
Wojciech Switala (born 5 October 1967 in Ruda Slaska) - Polish pianist.In 1990, he participated in the International Chopin Piano Competition award winning TIFC.
He has made numerous recordings of solo and orchestra (including the National Polish Radio Symphony), as well as for leading Polish chamber music publications such as the Polish Radio, BeArTon, Dux.
He graduated from the Academy of Mu-sic them. Karol Szymanowski in Katowice in prof. Joseph Stompel. In the years 1991-1996 he worked under the guidance of professors - Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, André Dumortier and JC Vanden-Eyndena.
He is a laureate of international competitions in Bardolino (Italy, first prize), Competition. M. Long and J. Thibaud in Paris (II Grand Prix, Audience Award, an award for the best Europeans) Piano Competition in Montreal. On the twelfth International Piano Competition. Frederic Chopin (1990) received the award for the best performance of a polonaise and a number of prizes.
Wojciech Switala has performed in most European countries, Argentina, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Libya, U.S. and Canada.
He has performed with most symphony orchestras in the country (including the Sinfonia Varsovia, Cracow Philharmonic, the Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra) under the baton of such conductors as John Krenz, Tadeusz Strugala, Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach, Chris Misson, George Katlewicz, Miroslaw Blaszczyk, Tomasz Bugaj.
Apart from its soloist pianist willing to reach for it by performing chamber music with violinist Simon Krzeszowcem, Silesian Quartet, the Camerata Quartet, Quartet and Orchestra Royal Aukso.
Wojciech Switala made a number of recordings with music by Liszt, Schumann and Chopin (including the Scherzo, Rollers and Ronda in the edition of the "National Edition"). Between 2000 and 2005, the two boards were awarded the "Grand Prix du Disque Frederic Chopin", and in 2002 awarded the prize "Fryderyk 2002". In 2003, the pianist has recorded both books of Debussy's Preludes, published by the label BeArTon, and together with Simon Krzeszowcem - complete Brahms violin sonatas for SONY Music Poland. Last fall he released his album recorded in the technology of Super Audio CD with songs recorded with Zarebski Royal Quartet.
In the spring of this album will be released by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute Chopin Preludes containing recorded on a Pleyel piano from 1848.
Since 1998, the pianist is also involved in educational work. He is currently vice-rector of the Academy of Music.
Translated from Polish to English
