MOZARTIANA 2010
The International Mozart Festival Mozartiana will be held on 18-21 August 2010. This is the fifth edition of the remarkable cultural events in the scenery of Oliwa Park and Oliwa Cathedral.
Once again, Tri-City residents visiting Oliwa Park and tourists will be able to listen to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the original version as well as in contemporary arrangements of Polish and foreign artists. At dusk Oliwa Park and Abbots’ Palace will welcome dancing fountains.
Portal visitgdansk-oliwa is a media patron of the event Mozartiana 2010.
Organizer of MOZARtIANA 2010 - POLISH CHAMBER CHOIR Schola Cantorum Gedanensis - announces that once again the International Mozart Festival will be the unique in many ways event. For four days, in natural interior and open air dated to the period of classicism, will be presented the music of the genius composer. Abbots’ Palace and the park surrounding it - the main strengths of Oliwa, the historic district of Gdansk - are the "Mozart's peers". These facilities to its current architectural shape obtained in 1756 - the year of birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The time of the festival converges with the height of the summer season. Thus represents an excellent proposition for Polish and foreign tourists croudly visiting Gdańsk. Admission to all concerts, except the final concert, is free. Currently, the event brings together more than twenty thousand spectators. However, the number of intrested people is much higher if we take into account all those who are in the park because of the framing of the festival.
As every year, for the young audience, will be presented symphony concerts and shows of dancing fountains to the music of Mozart. All these events will be presented in a beautiful scenery of Oliwa Park and Oliwa Cathedral. Sound and lights will make the Oliwa Park an open-air stage, which is filled by an unconventional music. Contemporary cultural trends combined with classical music, unique art facilities, beautiful scenery and the integration between the generations are elements typical for the last five years of the Mozartiana Festival. Guests of the current festival edition will be: Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra, Krzesimir Dębski, Anna Carbonera, Valentina Coladonato. Mozartiana goes in every way beyond the narrow interpretations of the word music festival. Festival Mozartiana met with interest of CNN, which in 2008 presented pictures from this project.
An impohrtant element of every Mozartiana festival is also a topic "children". According to the organizer's intention it is to attract and stimulate young imaginations, learn to listen to classical music forms. This effect is achieved through the use of specific forms of presentation, tailored to the perceptive abilities of children.
Programme of Mozartiana Festival 2010
18 August 2010 (Wednesday)
7 p.m. – stage in front of the Abbots’ Palace (free admission)
OFFICIAL INAUGURATION OF THE FESTIVAL
7.30 p.m. – stage in fron of the Abbots’ Palaca (free admission)
OPENING CONCERT
Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, Jarosław Thiel – conductor
9 p.m. – south fasade of the Abbots’ Palace (free admission)
SHOW OF THE FOUNTAIN DANCING TO THE MOZART’S MUSIC
9.45 p.m. – stage in front of the Abbots’ Palace (free admission)
K. DĘBSKI SEXTET PLAYS MOZART
Krzesimir Dębski – violin and keyboard instruments; Lary Porter (USA) – piano;
Gilad Atzmon (Israel) – saxophone, clarinet; Andrzej Olejniczak – saxophones;
Adam Skrzypek – bass; Krzysztof Przybyłowicz – percussion.
19 August 2010 (Thursday)
5.30 p.m – stage at the clearing near coach house in Oliwa Park (free admission)
MOZART FOR CHILDREN
Jadwiga Możdżer
7.30 p.m. - stage in front of the Abbots’ Palace (free admission)
FRAGMENTS OF OPERA PERFORMANCES
Anna Carbonera (Italy) – soprano; Valentina Coladonato (Italy) – soprano; Joseph
Cornwell (UK) – tenor; Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra; Kai Bumann -
conductor
9 p.m. - south fasade of the Abbots’ Palace (free admission)
SHOW OF THE FOUNTAIN DANCING TO THE MOZART’S MUSIC
9.45 p.m. - stage in front of the Abbots’ Palace (free admission)
JAZZ CONCERT
Cezary Paciorek with a band
20 August 2010 (Friday)
5 p.m. - south fasade of the Abbots’ Palace (free admission)
SHOW OF THE FOUNTAIN DANCING TO THE MOZART’S MUSIC
6.30 p.m. - stage in front of the Abbots’ Palace (free admission)
SYMPHONIC CONCERT
Leonid Czyżyk – piano; Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra; Paweł Przytocki –
conductor
8 p.m. – Oliwa Cathedral (paid admission)
CONCERT in cooperation with Polish Baltic Philharmonic organised within the
framework of the 53rd International Festival of Organ Music
Stefan Wagner (Germany) – organs
9.15 p.m. - south fasade of the Abbots’ Palace (free admission)
SHOW OF THE FOUNTAIN DANCING TO THE MOZART’S MUSIC
9.45 p.m. - stage in front of the Abbots’ Palace (free admission)
SAXY MOZART HEAR @ NOW
Stanisław Deja – piano; Demetrius Spaneas – saxophone
21 August 2010 (Saturday)
9 p.m. – Oliwa Cathedral (paid admission)
FINAL CONCERT - W.A. Mozart – Great Mass in C minor KV 427
Anna Carbonera (Italy) – soprano; Valentina Coladonato (Italy) – soprano; Joseph
Cornwell (UK) – tenor; Robert Gierlach – bass; Polish Chamber Choir; Wroclaw
Baroque Orchestra, Jan Łukaszewski – conductor
The organizer of the festival is the Polish Chamber Choir Schola Cantorum Gedanensis. Existing for over 30 years, belongs to a small group of world elite of fully professional chamber choirs. An outstanding artistic achievements of the band under the direction of Jan Łukaszewski is often appreciated. One of the last CD of the band, Penderecki: Complete Choral Works, registered at the special invitation of the composer himself, puts the Polish Chamber Choir in a unique position of the only band in the world, having in its repertoire all pieces for a cappella choir of Krzysztof Penderecki. This CD was awarded in May 2010 with the prestigious "Orphees D'Or" (Golden Orpheus) award, awarded by the French Academie du Disque Lyrique for the best recording of choral music.
The International Mozart Festival Mozartiana will be held on 18-21 August 2010. This is the fifth edition of the remarkable cultural events in the scenery of Oliwa Park and Oliwa Cathedral.
