Photo Wojciech Grzędziński / NIMiT

Kwartet Smyczkowy ?Op1?

Agnieszka Sawicka ? I skrzypce / violin I

Weronika Sidorska ? II skrzypce / violin II

Katarzyna Baczewska ? altówka / viola

Łukasz Tudzierz ? wiolonczela / cello

The idea behind the formation of the Kwartet Smyczkowy (String Quartet) ?Op1? was conceived in 2020, when its current members were working together on several projects for the Silesian Chamber Orchestra. Agnieszka Sawicka graduated with honours from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where she studied with Robert Kabara. Since 2017, she has performed with the Silesian Chamber Orchestra, of which she became the leader (concertmaster) in 2019. She has received prizes and honourable mentions at competitions held in Cieszyn, Legnica, Warsaw, Dolný Kubín and Wrocław. Weronika Sidorska studied with Roland Orlik and Kazimierz Skowronek at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Between 2017 and 2019, she worked for the Silesian Opera in Bytom, and she is now a member of the Silesian Chamber Orchestra and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice. Katarzyna Baczewska studied with Zygmunt Jochemczyk at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Performing alongside the Anima String Quartet (Kwartet Smyczkowy ?Anima?), she won an honourable mention at the 42nd Beethoven Hradec International Music Competition in Hradec nad Moravicí in 2003. She is currently a member of the Silesian Chamber Orchestra. Łukasz Tudzierz was a student of Bernard Polok and Marek Szopa at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. He has attended orchestral and chamber music master classes organised in Poland and abroad, e.g. in Bayreuth and Los Angeles. He has recorded some dozen CD albums for the Acte Préalable label with solo and chamber music repertoire mostly by Polish composers.

PROGRAMME

First Stage

?    Stanisław Moniuszko 

String Quartet No. 2 in F major

I. Allegro moderato

II. Andante

III. Scherzo. Baccanale monacale (Allegretto)

IV. Finale (Allegro)

?    Miłosz Magin 

String Quartet

I. Allegro

II. Moderato  

Finał  

?    Józef Wieniawski 

String Quartet in A minor, Op. 32

I. Allegro con brio

II. Andante cantabile

III. Scherzo (Vivo e con legierezza)

IV. Finale (Allegro energico e con fuoco)

?    Grażyna Bacewicz 

String Quartet No. 3

I. Allegro ma non troppo

II. Andante