Symphonic concert — Maria Leszczyńska

Maria Leszczynska

PFBzoe Zeniodi Orchestra — conductorKamaria Leszczyńska — cello

Hosted by: Justyna Ślubowska

Programa:

Dimitri Mitropoulos — The Burial [12'] Grażyna Bacewicz — 1st Cello Concerto [22']

Break [20']

Modest Mussorgsky — Pictures from the exhibition [35']

Maria LeszczyńskViolonCellist, chamber musician, arranger. Winner of the 2nd prize at the 12th Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition (2024), as well as many other cello and chamber competitions, scholarship holder of the Sinfonia Varsovia Foundation, Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Rector of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, DAAD and Deutschland Stipendium.Learning to play the cello She began her career at the age of eight under the guidance of Michał Nyzhnyk, and then continued with Marcin Zdunik. She is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in the class of Andrzej Bauer, as well as the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, where she studied under Pieter Wispelwey. She also honed her skills in master classes, led by such artists and educators as: Danjulo Ishizaka, Kazimierz Michalik, Arto Noras, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and Jacob Shaw. She has performed in concert halls in Poland, Germany, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and the United States. Since 2013, together with Ewa Pobłocka and Ewa Leszczyńska, she has been a member of the Multi Trio band, Warsaw Trio and Upbeat Piano Trio. The artist successfully arranges a diverse repertoire for chamber ensembles. Her compositions were performed twice during the Vienna Philharmonic Ball by the Scandinavian Cello School cello ensemble, conducted by Jacob Shaw; in 2021-2024 she collaborated with the Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit. Since 2022 he has been teaching cello and chamber ensembles during the August Cello Workshops. In 2025 she started teaching at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.

Zoe Zeniodi, photo by Jean Baptiste Millot

Zoe ZenioHailed by the press as Mrs. Dynamite, the artist has a successful international career that has resulted in conducting productions at Carnegie Hall, New Zealand Opera, Opera Southwest, Florida Grand Opera, Greek National Opera, Onassis Cultural Center, Festival of the Aegean and others. She has conducted the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, Wellington Orchestra, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Bogota Philharmonic, Brno Philharmonic, South Czech Philharmonic, Tokyo Star Symphony Orchestra, Palm Beach Symphony, Orchestra Classica Toscana, New Florida Philharmonic, Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, Pan-European Philharmonic, Youth Orchestra of Colombia and Greek all Symphony Orchestra, as well as many others.Since 2016 She is currently a member of the Hart Institute of Women Conductors (Dallas Opera), where she took participated in concerts and workshops with The Dallas Opera, San Francisco Opera and the Julliard School of Music. Zoe is the main guest conductor at the Asia-Europe New Music Festival in Hanoi (Vietnam) and artistic advisor to the Aegean Festival. Recent highlights in Zeniodi's artistic journey include the highly successful Le Nozze di Figaro series for New Zealand Opera, concerts with Stephen Hough and Lise de la Salle, as well as being the first woman to ever conduct at Opera Southwest (I Pajaci) and Carnegie Hall debut with the New England Symphonic Ensemble.

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Realization of the concert in cooperation with the Polish Music Publishing House as part of the Tutti.pl program promoting the publishing of Polish music.