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The 16th edition of the Gdańsk Music Festival will take place between the 19th and 26th of May 2023. Winners of international competitions, with whom the Festival has been cooperating for years, have been invited to participate in the concerts.
During the inauguration, the winner of the second prize of the Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition, Meruet Karmenova, will perform as well as the Heathcliff Trio, winner of the International Johannes Brahms Competition.
The festival has also established cooperation with one of the most important piano competitions in the world - the Van Cliburn Piano Competition in the USA. In the 2023 edition, two of its laureates will perform: Anna Geniushene and Dmytro Choni.
An extraordinary evening with the participation of one of the jurors of the 2nd International Chopin Competition on Historical Instruments, Tobias Koch is also on Festival's schedule. The artist will play works by Fryderyk Chopin on a period piano, which will also serve as a musical illustration for the first silent film about Chopin, made in France in 1927.
Alim Beisembayev, the winner of the 1st prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2021 will perform at the final concert of the Competition.
Press release
Detailed programme - on the website https://www.gdanskifestiwal.pl/