14th International Master Course for Pianists

Wroclaw (Poland)16 - 28 August 2007

The Course is organised with the financial help from the Minister of Culture, Lower Silesia Office, Wroclaw Municipalities, and in co-operation with R. Bukowski State Secondary Music School, Music and Literature Club, W. Lutoslawski Wroclaw Philharmonic, Silesian Piast Dynasty Museum in Brzeg, Municipal Office in Duszniki, City and Lower Silesian Province Promotion Offices in Wroclaw, "Creator" Productive & Trading Company in Wroclaw.

For this year's edition of the course applied 17 pianists from Poland, Turkey, Ukraine and the USA - in majority laureates of international and national piano competitions. The professor of the course was the outstanding artist (pianist, teacher and composer) Alexei Orlovetsky from St Petersburg, Russia. The lectures on playing "a vista", functioning of a piano, acoustics of concert halls and techniques of recording were conducted by Juliusz Adamowski and Maurycy Kin. There were five course concerts (in the Wroclaw Philharmonic Hall, Music and Literature Club in Wroclaw, Piast Dynasty Castle in Brzeg, F. Chopin Manor House in Duszniki Zdrój). The concert programme included, among others, Chaconne by Bach-Busoni, Variations sérieuses D-minor op. 54 by F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, 6th Sonata A-major op. 82 by S. Prokofiev, number of F. Chopin's works and pieces by J.S. Bach, L. v. Beethoven, J. Haydn, F. Liszt, S. Rachmaninov, M. Ravel and K. Szymanowski. The course opening recital (Tomasz Kamieniak - piano) was primary devoted to the output of Józef Wieniawski and Ch. H. Alkana. The artistic and organizational director of the course was Juliusz Adamowski. Translators/interpreters: Maria Serafin (Russian language) and Dariusz Adamowski (English language). Piano-tuners: Tadeusz Golachowski and Stefan Pilcer.

Active course participants:
Piotr BANASIK - Poland
Alexandra BUTOR - Poland
Karolina CZECH - Poland
Marta CZECH - Poland
Elizabeth DULKIN - USA
Begümhan GENÇGÖNÜL - Turkey
Deniz KÜN - Turkey
Andriy LUNOV - Ukraine
Grzegorz NIEMCZUK - Poland
Justyna PHILIPP - Poland
Melis SOYARSLAN - Turkey
Agnieszka STRZELCZYK - Poland
Hanna TARCHALA - Poland
Wojciech WALECZEK - Poland
Julia WINKLER - Poland