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Stars’ tribute
to Chopin
W
ORLD famous
pianist Katia
Skanavi will perform
in Perth on April 4
next year as part of
Scottish Tides –
Polish Spring.
Her performance
of some of Chopin’s
most beautiful
music will open the
town’s tribute to the
composer which will
last three days and
feature a host of
international stars.
Katia Skanavi’s
performance will be
world will pay tribute to Poland’s
THE PIANO
the second of four
Chopin lunchtime
concerts to be
broadcast on BBC
Radio 3.
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49), artistic sensitivity and the ability to
Also taking part in
one of the greatest artists in draw on the patterns of polish folk
the festival will be
Nikolai Demidenko,
the history of polish culture, music. Fryderyk Chopin is an artist who
Hebrides Ensemble,
the most distinguished polish played an exceptional role in shaping
Sing Sing Penelope
composer, as well as a our national identity.
and the Pomorska
ading pianist and representative of The year 2010 will see the 200th
Philharmonic.
e music of the romantic period in anniversary of the birth of this eminent
Scottish
e world. figure. recognising the special
broadcaster and
he is sometimes called a poet of the importance of his artistic output for the historian Billy Kay
ano. Although he belongs to the most polish and global heritage, the Sejm of
will host an evening
llingly played composers of piano the republic of poland, herby proclaims
of music and story
usic, his pieces require the performer 2010 as the year of Fryderyk Chopin.
highlighting the
possess excellent technique and Bronislaw komorowski
travels of Scots to
rtuosity. Master of the Sejm of the
Poland and beyond
in earlier centuries.
Lying at the source of his work is great republic of poland. May 9 2008
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