The Departments of Chamber Music and String Instruments of the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk invites you to an online conference. The 2nd International Artistic and Scientific Session "From the forgotten pages of Polish chamber music" will be held on 14-15 November 2020 on the YouTube channel of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk.
Lectures during the session will be delivered by 14 speakers from Poland (Gdańsk, Katowice, Warsaw, Łódź, Wrocław, Kraków), Germany and the USA. Sławomir Dobrzański, PhD (Kansas State University) will discuss the chamber music of Maria Szymanowska. The unknown chamber works by Zygmunt Stojowski and Irena Regina Wieniawska will be presented by Agnieszka Marucha, PhD Habil. (Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw) and Katarzyna Markiewicz, MA (Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk). Anna Mikolon, PhD Habil. (Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk) will present a paper Henryk Pachulski, Juliusz Wertheim and Jerzy Gablenz – the unknown chamber music composers. Three fascinating biographies and completely unknown works.
A series of papers will be devoted to Polish contemporary music. Andrzej Kacprzak, PhD Habil. (Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk) will talk about Roman Maciejewski – an original and unknown artist. Arkadiusz Kubica, PhD Habil. (Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice) will analyze Bolesław Szabelski's String Quartet No. 2. Mikołaj Pacholczyk, PhD (Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź) will discuss pieces for two pianos by Aleksander Tansman.
New facts about the work of Polish composers in the United States and Germany will be presented by Tomasz Robak, MA (Davidson College, North Carolina) and Prof. Tomasz Tomaszewski (Universität der Künste Berlin).
Full programme is available at: https://amuz.gda.pl/wydarzenia/ii-miedzynarodowa-sesja-artystyczno-naukowa-z-zapomnianych-kart-polskiej-kameralistyki-,390