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Mazurkas of the World - Autumn edition
22-24 October 2010, Warsaw, Poland
Skwer, Krakowskie Przedmieście 60a
Państwowe Muzeum Etnograficzne, Kredytowa 1
Klub "Sto Pociech", ul. Freta 20/24a
The autumn edition of the "Mazurkas of the World” festival has been specially prepared to mark the end of the International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition and is dedicated to the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, in celebration of its 10th Anniversary. Concerts, workshops, festival club and a Dance Night will offer you the chance to ha“Mazurkve some interesting musical encounters, not to mention a great time!
At Friday’s concert you will have the opportunity to hear: mazurkas as they originally sounded, performed by traditional village bands (Józef Piechota, the Tarnowski Brothers); new compositions based on the traditional music of the Kujawy region (from the young composers of the “Mazurkas According to Kolberg” project); village mazurkas in dialogue with the compositions of Frédéric Chopin (Magdalena Wojciechowska and the Janusz Prusinowski Trio); mazurka jazz (Marcin Pospieszalski’s mazurek session); and “polskas” from Sweden and Estonia.
The main dance event of the festival will be the Dance Night on Saturday. The evening will open with “Polish Tavern Dances”, followed by an array of Polish, Swedish and Estonian musicians.
Workshops at the National Ethnographic Museum will give you the chance to learn how to play the fiddle and the frame drum, sing mazurkas and dance Polish and Swedish dances. And on Friday, the pianists among you will get the opportunity to learn mazurkas directly from village fiddlers and accordion players.
The festival will end on Sunday with an event for children and their parents, called “Mazurkas in the Courtyard”, at the “Sto Pociech” Club.
Entrance to all events is free.
For more information please see: http://www.festivalmazurki.pl/
http://www.youtube.com/user/festivalmazurki
Come along and join in!
The "Mazurkas of the World" Foundation
and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute
The autumn edition of the festival is co-organised by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
The elements which make Frédéric Chopin’s work truly original spring from traditional Polish village music – the mazurkas, walking dances and kouiaviaks that the composer encountered in his childhood and which were part of the musical landscape of his time. The “Mazurkas of the World” project aims to revisit and revive these rhythms, and to reintroduce them into the sphere of contemporary music.
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