The Modjeska Cub presents "Polish Piano Music" performed by an eminent pianist from Poland, Radosław Sobczak and Chopin Academy Students, from the school of Róża KostrzewsKa Yoder and Douglas Yoder. The concert is scheduled for Sunday, 6 April 2025, 4.00 pm, at the the Residence of the Chopin Academy Founders, in los Angees.
Featuring students of Róża Yoder and Douglas Yoder
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1. Jackson Wu 2. Felix Lu 3. Felicia Lu 4. Amelia Shirakian |
5. Briella Zhu 6. Timmy Tian, 7. Adrien Ramos |
8. Dominik Yoder 9. Kasper Yoder 10. Łukasz Yoder |
PART II. Polish Piano Music – Radosław Sobczak
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Tekla Bądarzewska (1823-1861) – Maiden's Prayer
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Stanisław Moniuszko (1819-1872) – Waltz
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Moniuszko
&Henry Melcer – Spinning Girl
o Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1869-1941) – Minuet,
Op.14 No.1
o Ignacy Jan Paderewski – Nocturne, Op.16,
No. 4
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Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) – Mazurka, Op.50, No.1
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Karol Szymanowski – Etude, Op.4, No. 3
o Miłosz Magin (1929-1999) – Mazurka and
Kujawiak
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Roman
Maciejewski (1910-1998) – Mazurka, Echo from the Tatra Mountains
o Piotr Pietkiewicz (b.1966) – Bells
from the Deep Monology
o Marcin Łukaszewski (b.1973) – Transcendental
Etude, No. 4, Winter
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Paweł Łukaszewski (b.1968) – Nocturne, No. 1, Alsephia
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Paweł Łukaszewski – Nocturne, No. 14, Pipirima
Radosław Sobczak
Radosław Sobczak was born in 1981 in Pisz, Poland, where he also began to learn to play the piano at the State Primary Music School in the class of Ewa Sulewska. Then, for five years, he continued his education at the Fryderyk Chopin Primary and Secondary State Music in Olsztyn under the direction of Ilona Dworecka-Staszewska. He obtained a diploma and baccalaureate at the Karol Szymanowski Music High School in Warsaw under Prof. Bronisława Kawalla in 2000. In 2006 he graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the piano class of Prof. Edward Wolanin and in chamber music class of Prof. Maciej Paderewski. He completed his studies with Prof. Victor Macarov. He is the laureate of the 2nd prize at the 1st European Piano Competition Halina Czerny – Stefańska in memoriam in Poznań (2008). He was recognized at the 14th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2000, receiving the title of The Best Pole of the Competition and a number of awards; among others, a Yamaha piano from the Foundation of Prof. Regina Smendzianka and a Crescendum Est Polonia Founda-tion scholarship.
Mr. Sobczak performed in many Polish symphony concert halls and at numerous festivals –Chopin Festival Settimane Musicali Bresciane — Genio e Malinconia (Italy), Piano Festival in Kitzingen (Germany), Paderewski Days in New York, Festival of Polish Music in Gyor (Hungary), Polish Piano Festival in Słupsk, Chopin Festival in Antonin, Art Festival in Czarnolas, Beethoven Festival in Głogowek, Szymanowski Days in Zakopane, Kraków Piano Summer, and more. In 2002, he gave seven recitals in China at the invitation of the Shanghai Concert Hall. In 2003, he appeared in a concert for the European Parliament in Strasbourg on the occasion of Poland’s accession to the E.U. In December 2007, Sobczak participated in the New Year’s Eve gala at the Grand Theatre-National Opera in Warsaw. He is the first Polish pianist who performed in Muscat (Oman) at the invitation of the Polish Embassy in Saudi Arabia (2010). He also performed in Australia, France, Israel, Spain, the Czech Republic, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine, & South Korea.
In 2013, Sobczak released a CD with three Beethoven sonatas, followed by The Spirit, an album with works recorded during recitals, both released by the Cultura Animi Foundation. In June 2018, the DUX record label issued two monographic CDs with the music of Ignacy Paderewski and Karol Szymanowski. In the same year, he recorded a world premiere of Piano Etudes by Marcin Tadeusz Łukaszewski. In 2018, the Senate of the Republic of Poland, in cooperation with the Polish Radio, included his recording of Paderewski’s Piano Sonata in its project celebrating 100 years of Poland’s regaining its independence.
He was twice nominated for best Polish “Classical Music Award - Fryderyk” for his CDs –Paderewski (2019) and Łukaszewski (2020). During 2018-2021 years He released audio-video recording project – Music Mystery by composer Peter Pietkiewicz. In 2023 he performed in front of South Korean President Mr. Yoon Suk-Yeul and first Lady during their official visit in Poland. In 2023 he recorded both Chopin's piano concertos with new orchestra arrangements for single woodwind parts, with Podlasie Chamber Orchestra (DUX label). In 2024, as a first Polish pianist, Sobczak recorded all twelve Transcendental Etudes by Franz Liszt (DUX label). In 2010-2012, he served as a professor at the Keimyung-Chopin University in Daegu, South Korea. In 2010 – 2018, he was a lecturer at the Fryderyk Chopin University in Warsaw and since 2012, a teacher of a piano class at the Szymanowski State Music School Complex No. 4 in Warsaw. From 2018 he has cooperated with the Chengdu Extraordinary Music Company. In 2024, he started a cooperation with the IMC- Japan Music Company.
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