CANDLELIGHT CONCERT - LA BELLE NUIT | JAGODA SOKOŁOWSKA O'DONOVAN | ROBERT SKIERA

Program of the concert

The program includes works from baroque to contemporary!

accomplishments

La Belle Nuit is a beautiful night where music speaks of love.

It is a series of candlelit concerts dedicated to the art of classical singing — from baroque elevations to contemporary stories. The program of the evening includes the most beautiful arias and songs, often inspired by the theme of love, performed by outstanding artists in an atmosphere of intimacy and candlelight.

In the Fryderyk Concert Hall in Warsaw, as in 19th century music salons in Poland and Europe, we meet to celebrate the voice — the most perfect of instruments. In the break — a glass of sparkling wine, as in the old days, when music united people in elegance, emotion and silence.

La Belle Nuit is not just a concert. It is a meeting with beauty that stays with you for a long time.

Please arrive 15 minutes before the concert.

Jagoda Sokołowska‑O'Donovan — mezzo-soprano, flutist, cultural manager, architect of the Fryderyk Concert Hall

Versatile artist and organizer of musical life. She graduated with honors from the Academy of Music in Krakow. Winner of national and international competitions, she has toured in Europe, Asia and North America. Her artistry was appreciated by Jerzy Waldorff — a prominent Polish music critic, essayist and popularizer of culture — who called her “an exceptionally talented artist... an outstanding musical personality”. Founder and director of the Fryderyk Concert Hall in Warsaw — a unique place inspired by the Chopin era and 19th century music salons, where she combines artistic activity with the vision of a modern patron of culture.

Robert Skiera - piano

An outstanding Polish pianist and chamber musician, graduated from the Warsaw University of Music in 1988 in the piano class of Alicja Paleta-Bugaj and the chamber music class of Barbara Halska.

After receiving his diploma, he began working at his native Academy as an assistant professor in the chamber music department, working closely with Piotr Paleczny.

Lecturer at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and teacher of the J. Elsner State Music School Ensemble, Robert Skiera conducts a lively concert and pedagogical activity all over the world. He conducts classes as part of international music courses, performs as a soloist and chamber musician with many outstanding actors and musicians. Let's name just a few: festivals and concerts in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Hungary, Austria and Italy. He performed with famous Polish musicians and actors. It has received many excellent reviews around the world. He is a regular guest of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.

He has made recordings for many radio and television stations around the world.

For many years he has been performing Chopin concerts for the PRESTO Concert Agency. Since April 2019, the venue for these concerts is the Fryderyk Concert Hall.