Independence Day Concert

Performers:
Krakow Young Philharmonic - M. Karłowicz ZPSMuz Orchestra in Krakow
Cracow Philharmonic Society Choir
Tomasz Chmiel — conductor
Bernarda Grembowiec — soprano
Joanna Święzek-Przeliorz — alto
Bartłomiej Chorąży — tenor
Paweł Szarpak — bass
Gabriel Golik — boy voice
Marcin Wróbel — preparation of the Social Choir at the Krakow Philharmonic

Repertoire:
The most beautiful Polish patriotic songs

On November 11, the 108th anniversary of Poland regaining independence and state independence after the First World War, we would like to invite you to a solemn concert commemorating these great events for our nation. The concert on the occasion of Independence Day is a review of the most beautiful patriotic songs that have been sung for generations and have permanently grown in the hearts of Poles. Weeping willows sounded; Ułani, ułani or Red poppies on Monte Cassino are melodies present in every house and known to everyone regardless of date of birth, political views or place in society. It is the legacy contained in the song and the history written in the words.

We cordially invite you to celebrate the Independence Day of our Motherland together.

Tomasz CHMIEL - comes from Rzeszów, where he graduated with honors from the piano class at the State Lyceum of Music. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Krakow in the conducting class of Jerzy Katlewicz and in the piano class of Marek Koziak. He graduated from both majors with distinction.

Two-time scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and Art, awarded Creative Scholarship of the City of Krakow. Winner of the 1st prize in the 1st National Review of Young Conductors named after W. Lutosławski in Białystok. A frequent participant of Helmut Rilling seminars at the Bach Academy in Stuttgart, as well as master classes in Salzburg and Southern Ireland. Associated with his home university, he works as an assistant professor. Guest conductor of the Krakow, Rzeszow, Częstochowa, Lower Silesian, Szczecin and NOSPR Philharmonic. He cooperates with the Krakow Opera. For years he has been associated with the Musical Theatre in Lublin and the Cracow Chamber Opera. Head of the Krakow Young Philharmonic, with whom he won 1st place in the 1st National Competition of Orchestras of Music Schools of the Second Degree. Outside the country, he has toured in Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and South Korea.

He pays special attention to Polish music. He developed orchestral voices from the manuscript and performed the forgotten 1st Symphony of Arthur Malawski. He has orchestrated for symphony orchestra a series of songs by Chopin, Karłowicz, as well as Polish pre-war songs, patriotic songs, carols, and Marian songs. He has performed T. Leszetycki's Piano Concerto — most of these arrangements have been recorded and released on CDs. For chamber orchestras he has also developed operas Don Pasquale, Donizetti's Love Drink, Adam's Torreador, J. Stefani's Krakowiacy and Highlanders, Schubert's Spiskowcy, and Lehar's operetta The Merry Widow. He arranges film music with great passion. In 2013, he obtained the title of Habilitation Doctor.

photo: K. Kalinowski

KRAKOW YOUNG PHILHARMONIA — The Symphony Orchestra of the Mieczysław Karłowicz State Music Schools Ensemble in Krakow performs more than a dozen concerts in each artistic season. He performs not only in Krakow, but also in many concert halls of Poland, including the Teatr Wielki, the Roma Music Theater, the National Philharmonic and the W. Lutosławski Polish Radio Studio in Warsaw, in the Hall of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, in the Upper Silesian Cultural Center in Katowice, in the halls of the Szczecin, Pomeranian and Czestrian Philharmonic Ochochowska. The orchestra regularly performs abroad (Germany, the Netherlands, France, Austria, Ukraine, China). He collaborates with youth orchestras (Germany) and choirs, including Trumpet of the Lord (Netherlands), the Cracow Philharmonic Choir, the Choir of the Academy of Music in Krakow, the Marian Choir, the Choir of the Dominant University of Economics, the Choir of the Agricultural University in Krakow. He conducts dynamic cooperation with Cracow institutions, including: the Krakow Opera, the Krakow Philharmonic, the Polish-Chinese Chopin Foundation and Krakow's houses of culture.

The repertoire of the ensemble is very diverse, it includes works of different eras, from baroque to contemporary music, as well as opera, operetta, musical and film music.

The most significant events in the orchestra's artistic activity were the premiere performance of Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz's and Leszek Aleksander Moczulski's Ludźmierski's Nieszporas Ludźmierski (1992), winning 1st place in the National Competition of Orchestras of Secondary School Music Schools, organized by the Academy of Film and Television in Warsaw with the participation of the Center for Artistic Education and the Second Polish Program Radio (2013) and a tour to China (2018).

The orchestra has repeatedly participated in festivals, including the Cracovia Sacra festival, is a frequent guest of the series Nowa Huta, nie, organized by the Nowa Huta Cultural Center, has performed many times as part of the Crazy Days of Music festival in Warsaw and at the Jan Kiepura Festival in Krynica.

The orchestra's phonographic output includes several albums, including Polish Patriotic Songs, Carols, Pieśni Maryjane and pre-war songs published by Polskie Radio on the album Nie nisz moi.