On April 29, 2018 at 6.00 p.m. the Warsaw Philharmonic will host a Charity Concert for Joanna Tic-Ramos. Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Paweł Kapuła will play along with talented flutist Marianna Żołnacz, Koryfeusz 2017 award winner.
Joanna Tic-Ramos is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw in the flute class of prof. Elżbieta Dastych-Szwarc. She also graduated from Early Music Studies in Warsaw. She is a two-time scholarship holder of the Austrian Cultural Forum and Austria Barock Akademie. From 2011 to 2013, she was the first flautist of the ULS Symphony Orchestra in La Serena (Chile). In 2013, Joanna Tic-Ramos and her family returned to Poland, where she taught at music schools and conducted educational concerts with the Little Philharmonic. In 2014, together with her husband, she founded Ensamble Insularoj to promote contemporary Latin American music.
In 2016, she was diagnosed with breast cancer with lymph node metastases. In November 2017, check-ups showed numerous bone metastases and local recurrence. Currently, Joanna is in the course of treatment with bisphosphonates, hormonal agents and is waiting for surgery of the ovaries along with the fallopian tubes. The treatment methods used are not very promising, but only inhibit the development of the disease. Joanna can not work professionally, she lives in Warsaw with her husband and two children aged 2 and 7. Joanna's husband, a pianist, works in two music schools. Determination that is shown every day in the fight against the disease, but also the awareness of how strongly it affects the lives of her husband and two children, inspired the musicians of the National Philharmonic Orchestra to take action to show support in this difficult situation.
OFN decided to organize a charity concert, during which funds for treatment and daily functioning of Joasia and her family will be collected. We invite you to participate in this extraordinary event, where the beauty of intangible art meets with human charity. The concert will feature: Overture for symphony orchestra by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Flute Concerto in D Minor Wq 22 by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Symphony No. 1 by Dimitri Shostakovich.
The organizers of the concert are the Association of Polish Artists – Musicians and the National Philharmonic. OFN artists would like to point out that all people involved in the preparation and organization of the concert do not receive any remuneration for this.
During the break an auction will be held, which will be led by Paweł Burczyk. You can get acquainted with the auction catalog on the National Philharmonic website.