The International Piano Festival "Chopin in the heart of Warsaw" will last from July 7 to August 25, 2018, including numerous concerts performed by pianists with distinctive artistic personalities.
The Festival is strongly linked with the Holy Trinity Church in Warsaw, where, in 1825 a 15 year old Fryderyk Chopin performed for Russian Tsar Alexander 1st and received from him a gold diamoned ring for his performance. The young composer also sang in the parish choir and listened to sermons in this church. The dome of the church is one of the biggest in Europe, and contributes to its splendid acoustics, hence the church has been used as a concert venue for many years since that time. The church cross, located on top of the dome, has been designated as the geodetic centre-point of Warsaw. It was thus employed by sir William Heerlein Lindley to construct the city water supply network. As the building is rotunda in form, the piano will be situated in the centre of the church for the duration of the festival, directly under the light of the dome – that is, in the Heart of Warsaw.
Concerts will take place on each Saturday of July and August at 4 pm, with the children’s "ChopiNotes" – Concerts for the Young following at 5.30 pm, in the Holy Trinity Church, pl. Małachowskiego 1 – just nearby the Zachęta National Gallery of Art. Inauguration weekend – 7 and 8 July – will be filled with Chopin recitals by Leonora Armellini and Nikolay Khozyainov (Mikołaj Chozjainow) and two children's concerts performed by Adam Mikołaj Goździewski.
Detailed programme available at: http://chopinwsercuwarszawy.pl/