Edition
2022
25 educational videos, 5 renowned violin teachers from different countries, 30 new recordings of Polish violin music
The violin edition of the “Music from Chopin’s Land” campaign presents a wide range of Polish violin music: from works by Henryk Wieniawski, Karol Lipiński and other 19th century Polish composers, through Karol Szymanowski and Grażyna Bacewicz, to composers of educational music: Antoni Cofalik and Ewa Iwan. Each of the 25 films is available in six language versions: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Polish. Videos were released on June 27th, 2022.
Tutorials
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Władysław Żeleński – Sonata in F-major Op. 30 | tutorial JAP
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Fryderyk Chopin – Nocturne in C sharp minor | tutorial JAP
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Fryderyk Chopin – “Mazurka in A minor Op. 64 No.4” | tutorial IT
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski – “Melody” | tutorial IT
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Adam Wroński – “Mazurka. Cradle Song” | tutorial FR
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Krzesimir Dębski – “Cantabile” | tutorial FR
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Roman Statkowski – “Dumka” | tutorial EN
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Emil Młynarski – “Mazurka in G major Op. 7” | tutorial EN
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Zygmunt Noskowski – “Melody Op. 21” | tutorial GER
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Karol Szymanowski – “Cradle Song” | tutorial GER
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Publications
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Paweł Wójtowicz, Miniatures book 1
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Antoni Cofalik, The Aviary
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Ewa Iwan, Musical Journeys
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Grażyna Bacewicz, Easy Pieces book 1
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Henryk Wieniawski, The Most Beautiful Wieniawski
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Grażyna Bacewicz, The Most Beautiful Bacewicz
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Grażyna Bacewicz, Concertino
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Karol Szymanowski, Cradle Song
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Karol Lipiński, Three Caprices Op. 29
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Władysław Żeleński, Romance, Dance fantastique
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Krzesimir Dębski, Cantabile
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Zygmunt Noskowski, Melody Op. 1 no. 1
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Roman Statkowski, Dumka
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Adam Wroński, Mazurka. Lullaby
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Henryk Wieniawski, Capriccio-Valse
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Henryk Wieniawski, Polonaise brillante
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Henryk Wieniawski, Fantaisie orientale
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Fryderyk Chopin, Famous Transcriptions, book 1
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Fryderyk Chopin, Famous Transcriptions, book 2
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Emil Młynarski, Mazurka in G-Major Op. 7
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Stanisław Bacewicz, Melody
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Artists envolved in the project
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Steve Bingham
Educator
Steve Bingham studied violin with Emmanuel Hurwitz, Sidney Griller and the Amadeus Quartet at the Royal Academy of Music from 1981 to 1985. In 1985 he founded the Bingham String Quartet, an ensemble that has become one of the leading quartets.in the UK, performing classical and contemporary repertoire. The quartet has recorded many CDs, worked for radio and television, toured in Europe, the Middle East and Australia, and collaborated with prominent musicians. Steve Bingham is also a dedicated violin teacher, editor of the European String Teachers Association, and teaches many chamber music courses and regular school workshops for all ages. He is particularly known for his excellent communication skills and enthusiasm.
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Nora Scheidig
Educator
Nora Scheidig completed her studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden and Weimar, where she studied with Prof. Malinowski and Prof. Wollong. Collaborations with internationally renowned artists such as Friedemann Eichhorn, Nora Chastain, Yair Kless, Ingolf Turban and Ivan Zenaty shaped her artistic personality. On a chamber music level, she also received stimulation from renowned artists such as Natalia Prishepenko, Jan Vogler, Lise Berthaud and Lise de la Salle. Nora Scheidig performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician at home and abroad with, among others, Duo Dopico, the dogma chamber orchestra and as a substitute in orchestras such as the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. In addition to her artistic diversity, Nora Scheidig is a passionate pedagogue committed to promoting young talent.
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Shirly Laub
Educator
Shirly Laub studied with Clemens Quatacker in Brussels and with Viktor Liberman and Philippe Hirshhorn in Utrecht. From 1998 to 2005 she was one of the concertmasters of the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Opera House and the BBC orchestras. In 2001, she joined the Silk Road Ensemble in New York, with which she toured around the world accompanied by Yo-Yo Ma, among others. Shirly Laub is also active in education, having taught violin at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College London, and at conservatories in Madrid, Kumamoto, Beijing and Miami. Since 2003 she has been a violin teacher at the Conservatoire Royal in Brussels.
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Edoardo Zosi
Educator
Edoardo graduated with honors from the Conservatory of Music in Milan and was a student of Pierre Amoyal in Lausanne from 2005-2007. He is the winner of the International Violin Competition “Viotti Valsesia” in 2003, where he was also the youngest competitor. Edoardo has given concerts in many European countries and in China, he has been a soloist in many orchestras and has collaborated with several eminent artists. Since 2012 he has been professor of violin at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
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Kyoko Ogawa
Educator
She was born in 1992 and graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts. She won the 1st prize and Audience Award in the 10th Tokyo Music Competition, the Career Development Awards at the Banff International String Quartet Competition 2016, and the 1st prize in the 67th ARD Munich International Music Competition as Aoi Trio. She has performed as a Soloist with Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and other orchestras in Tokyo. She participated in the Ozawa International Chamber Music Academy Okushiga and Zermatt Music Festival and Saito Kinen Orchestra. She has performed at Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , Musika Bayreuth, Brahms Tage in Baden-Baden and Raderbergkonzert in Cologne.She has played as the Vorspirler in the Tokyo Philharmony Orchestra for one year. She studied at Karajan Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker until April 2021 and she played in Berliner Philharmoniker many time. Currently she is studying at Hochschule Musik und Theatre München with Prof.Dirk Mommertz.
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Agata Szymczewska
Expert, performer, master classes presenter
Agata Szymczewska is Polish violinist, winner of the 13th Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Poznań in 2006. Winner of the London Music Masters award, primarius of the renowned Karol Szymanowski String Quartet. She has been working regularly with students as an educator for over 10 years now, and she finds this work to be a great way to share the experience she has gained and an inspiring area to exchange ideas. She is currently employed at the Frédéric Chopin University of Music in Warsaw as a Doctor of Musical Arts. She gives numerous lectures, masterclasses and demonstration lessons in many places in Poland and abroad. She plays three roles in the Music from Chopin’s Land project: she is the subject matter expert, performer of violin works included in the campaign, and presenter of master classes for violin teachers in Cardiff and Cremona.
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Wojtek Szymczewski
Piano accompanist
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Wojtek Kogut
Piano accompanist
Composers
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Violinist, chamber musician, educator, methodologist. Graduate of the Academy of Music in Gdansk in the class of prof. Maria Suwara. For many years she was a violinist with the Warmia-Mazury Philharmonic Orchestra in Olsztyn and a member of the Con Flauto quartet. Founder and conductor of the ABSOLWENT string orchestra. She teaches violin at the State Primary and Secondary Music School in Olsztyn and at the State Music School in Dywity. She has attended methodological courses of Almita Vamos and many other well-known educators. Her students and the chamber ensembles she leads are very successful at competitions. She conducts workshops for children and teachers. She is a juror of violin competitions. She has been honored with numerous teaching awards.
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Graduate of the Academy of Music in Kraków. He is a concertmaster of the Kraków Opera, a soloist with many orchestras and a member of several chamber ensembles. In addition to his artistic activities, he is involved in teaching. He runs a violin class at the Secondary Music School of the 1st degree in Cracow. He is also a juror for many competitions and auditions. He created the musical educational project “Spring of Young Chamber Players”, of which he is the artistic director. As an educator, he also publishes articles on child pedagogy. He is the originator and one of the organizers of the National Violin Competition “Vivaldi” in Wieliczka. Paweł Wójtowicz is also a composer of pedagogical pieces.
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Artist-songwriter, musician-chamber musician, educator. Member of the famous “Cracow Trio” (1964-89), which has given concerts across all continents, for many years the concertmaster of the PRiTV Orchestra in Cracow and the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz. He has taught at the Academies of Music in Katowice and Bydgoszcz, and currently at the F. Chopin Secondary School of Music in Kraków. His students include winners of numerous national and international competitions. He is a consultant to first and second level music schools on violin class and curriculum, a lecturer at summer violin courses and workshops, and a jury member at many violin competitions. He is the author of the most popular violin textbook in Poland, numerous studies of violin literature and composer of didactic pieces.
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Violinist, educator, composer. For years she has been associated with music schools and universities in Katowice. She is the author of a violin coursebook for grades I – III “Ładnie gram” (PWM, 2005), as well as various pedagogical pieces for violin and piano and arrangements for orchestra and chamber ensembles. Ewa Iwan conducts seminars, lectures and consultations for teachers (among others within the framework of Music Education Days), is a juror and co-organizer of violin competitions.
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Composer, violinist, cellist, conductor. The beginning of his career was connected with orchestras, in which he was concertmaster and conductor. In 1814, at the instigation of Ludwig Spohr, he decided to pursue a career as a virtuoso violinist, giving up his previous work as a conductor and devoting himself exclusively to perfecting his violin technique and preparing repertoire. In 1817 he began a regular artistic tour throughout Europe. In 1839 he settled permanently in Dresden, where for twenty years he served as concertmaster of the orchestra of King Frederick August of Saxony.
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Composer, pianist, educator and conductor as well as philosopher. He was professor of harmony and counterpoint at the Music Institute in Warsaw, and artistic director of the Warsaw Music Society. It was his initiative to establish the Conservatory of the Kraków Music Society in 1887, where he served as director until his death. Here he taught organ and music theory classes. His pupils included Zygmunt Stojowski, Roman Statkowski, Henryk Opieński, Felicjan Szopski and Bolesław Wallek-Walewski.
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Composer, jazz violinist, conductor, arranger and music producer. As leader of the String Connection jazz ensemble, he has toured Europe, the United States and Canada. He has recorded over 30 albums of his compositions for many prestigious record labels. Since 1986 he has limited his concert activity, devoting himself to composing. He has composed over 50 symphonic and chamber works. He has written music for over 50 feature films and documentaries, and also creates theatrical and experimental music. In 1991 he also took up conducting, and his discography as a conductor already includes over a dozen titles.
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Composer, violinist, educator, conductor and publicist. He was active in the Warsaw Music Society, and acted as conductor of the opera and second conductor of the Warsaw Philharmonic. He has led the class of composition at the Institute of Music in Warsaw. Endowed with an outstanding pedagogical sense, he educated an entire generation of Polish composers within 20 years. His students included: Henryk Melcer, Grzegorz Fitelberg, Mieczysław Karłowicz, Karol Szymanowski, Ludomir Różycki. Noskowski was also involved in music criticism and gave talks and lectures on music. He followed the development of newer music and assimilated new advances in technique and musical style with interest. His lively temperament did not allow him to limit himself to just one musical form; he tried his hand at all creative fields.
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Composer and educator. Initially, he studied law at the University of Warsaw. He studied composition at the Music Institute in Warsaw under Władysław Żeleński. He then moved to St. Petersburg, where he studied with Nikolai Solovyov (composition) and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (instrumentation) at the Conservatory, graduating with a gold medal in 1890. In 1904 he settled in Warsaw, where he became professor of the Institute of Music – initially teaching history of music and aesthetics, and from 1909, following the death of Zygmunt Noskowski, also running the composition class. His students included: Jerzy Lefeld, Jan Adam Maklakiewicz, Piotr Perkowski, Kazimierz Wiłkomirski, Bolesław Szabelski.
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Violinist, composer, educator. He was educated at the Singing and Music School of the Technical Institute in Cracow, and later at the Vienna Conservatory. He achieved his first artistic success while serving in the military as a violinist and later as a military orchestra leader. He was a co-founder of the symphony orchestra with which he performed at Kraków’s Teatr Stary and the Orkiestra Zdrojowa in Krynica-Zdrój. In 1897 he became the conductor of a theater orchestra in Lviv. His compositions are clearly inspired by Viennese music, which is why he was called the “Polish Strauss”. He was a very prolific composer, creating over 250 compositions, mostly piano dance pieces, but he also wrote fantasies, overtures, marches, solo and choral songs, and even vaudevilles.
Partners
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Hal Leonard Europe – Distributor of sheet music publications representing the world’s most well-known and respected music publishers, artists, songwriters, arrangers and instrument makers. Thanks to excellently organised logistics covering all European countries, printed scores reach artists, teachers, pupils and students as well as amateur musicians. HLE is part of a large publishing and distribution group which covers almost the entire world through its large online stores: in Europe musishopeurope.com, in the UK musicroom.com, in the USA www.halleonard.com. Thanks to HLE, the publications used in the project reach an audience in the European Union.
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Universal Edition London– Distributor of sheet music publications operating in the United Kingdom. UE London is part of Austria’s Universal Edition, a publishing house with an editorial tradition dating back to the 19th century.
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Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance