Inauguration of the 21st Gdańsk Pianist Autumn

Reed Tetzloff, photo by Brian Hatton

PFB OrchestraPaweł Kapuła — conductorEd Tetzloff — piano

Hosted by: Konrad Mielnik

Program:

Carl Nielsen — Helios Overture Op. 17 [13'] Béla Bartók — Piano Concerto in E major No. 3 No. 119 [24']

Break [20']

Robert Schumann — Symphony in C major, Op. 61 No. 2 [39']

Reed Tetzloff rose to international fame as the lyrical hero of the 15th Tchaikovsky Competition (Snob Magazine), after which he established himself on the world stage as an outstanding artist, praised for his artistic intelligence, impeccable technique and bravery (South Florida Classical Review) .Recent years in Tetzloff's career are characterized by a series of groundbreaking recording projects for Aparté. In 2025, he began a major collaboration with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Luxembourg Philharmonic, releasing a highly acclaimed album featuring Grieg and Schumann concerts.The 2026/2027 season includes several prestigious debuts, including performances with the Mannheim Chamber Orchestra, the Polish Baltic Philharmonic, and Pegasus the Orchestra in New York. With recitals he has performed throughout the United States as well as on international stages such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, Robert Schumann-Saal in Düsseldorf, De Singel in Antwerp, Place Flagey in Brussels, the Théâtre d'Angoulême, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and the Seoul Arts Center.Tetzloff was born in Minneapolis. He studied with Dr. Paul Wirth before moving to New York to study there at Mannes College with Pavlina Dokovskaya. During his first year and a half of his undergraduate studies, he won two of the school's biggest awards — he won the Concert Competition there and the Nadia Reisenberg Competition, which resulted in New York debuts at Alice Tully Hall and Kaufman Center. He is currently working on his PhD at the Peabody Institute under Richard Goode.

reedtetzloff.com

Paweł Kapuła, photo: Grzegorz Mart

Paweł Kapula, a conductor of the young generation, is dynamically developing his career and is admired for his mature interpretations of works from a wide symphonic repertoire, as well as for his excellent workshop. After his debut with the Warsaw Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, when he led musicians in place of maestro Stanisław Skrowaczewski, he was called the hope of Polish conducting. On 9 September 2026, he made his debut at the BBC PROMS Music Festival in London. He conducted the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the famous Royal Albert Hall. In the 2026/2027 artistic season he will perform with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, the MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, the Danish Chamber Orchestra, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and the Polish Baltic Philharmonic in Gdansk.Zadyrygał the final concert of the Wawel Festival at dusk in Krakow and inaugurated the 81st International Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdroj with the NMF Orchestra of the Wrocław Philharmonic and the laureates of the Chopin Competition Piotr Alexewicz and Tianyao Lyu. In March 2026, the maestro appeared alongside Martha Argerich, conducting Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto at Hamburg's Laeishhalle. In previous seasons, the artist has performed with, among others, the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Bremer Philharmoniker, Staatsorchester Mainz, as well as the Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo's Suntory Hall, Chinese symphony orchestras Xi'an and Guiyang, Ulster Orchestra, Georgisches Kammerorchester from Ingolstadt, Württembergische Philharmonie from Reutlingen, orchestras opera houses in Oslo and Gothenburg, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Meininger Hofkapelle, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie Chemnitz, Leoš Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava, Romanian Philarmonica de Stat orchestras Sibiu and the Philarmonica de Stat Transilvania.Since 2021, Paweł Kapuła is the first guest conductor of the Pomeranian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in Bydgoszcz. In Poland he also performed with the Orchestra and Choir of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, the National Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio in Katowice, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra, the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, the Orchestra of the National Forum of Music in Wrocław, the Capella Bydgostiensis, with the orchestra Philharmonic orchestras in Gdańsk, Bydgoszcz, Cracow, Zielona Góra, Jelenia Góra, Rybnik. The artist has an album with all Beethoven's piano concertos recorded with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and American pianist Reed Tetzloff, as well as an album with Sinfonia Varsovia. For years he has been cooperating with the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, implementing numerous recording projects, mainly recordings of works by lesser-known Polish composers. Paweł Kapuła is a pupil of Prof. Tadeusz Strugała at the Academy of Music in Krakow, and he obtained a diploma in the class of Prof. Stanisław Krawczyński. He honed his skills as assistant to Jacek Kaspszyk at the Warsaw Philharmonic, as well as Andrzej Boreyka at the Orchestre National de Belgique. He is also a graduate of the Institute of Musicology of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.

pawelkapula.com

All upcoming festival concerts HERE

The project is co-financed by the City of Gdańsk.