CONCERT: Christina Harnisch (Piano)

WESTERN MUSIC CONCERT: Jerzy Sterczynski, piano

An Evening of Chopin on 17th Nov at 7 pm, Mazda Hall

In a programme of Fryderyk Chopin: Polonaise in A major Op. 40 No. 1; Etude in C sharp minor Op. 25 No. 7; Waltz in C sharp minor Op. 64; 3 Mazurkas: Op. 50: G major No. 1, A flat major No. 2, C sharp minor No. 3; Polonaise in A flat major Op. 53; Nocturne in C sharp minor Op. 27 and Sonata in B flat minor Op. 35

Jerzy Sterczynski, born in 1957, began to learn piano at the age of six. He finished his music high School in Bielsko-Biala, where he studied at the Katowice Academy of Music under Professor Andrzej Jasinski and graduated with honours in 1981. He then continued his training in London with John Bingham. He won the first prize at the Young Performers prize at the Polish Piano Festival in Slupsk and the second prize at the International Music Competition in Saragossa (1983). He is a very active concert performer and has toured worldwide. He has taken part in the Chopin Festival in Duszniki and also in festivals in Lockenhaus and La Chaise-Dieu. He has recorded 13 compact discs with the complete Chopin Nocturnes, Waltzes and Polonaises as well as his Sonata No. 2 and several small pieces. He has also recorded solo works by Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Reger and Szymanowski, and concertos by Chopin, Lessl and Dobrzynski. He has been a professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw since 1989. He was dean of the Department of Piano, Harpsichord and Organ in 2005-2008 and was re-elected for the term 2008-2012.

A Tribute to the Ticklers

"From the speakeasys of New Orleans to modern day New York, jazz and its' pianists have had a colorful history.
New Yorker Richard Bennett will play vivid selections ranging from ragtime to bebop to blues illustrating the differences between the music of various eras. He will also play original compositions that convey the present and future of the music drawing on rhythms from all around the world. It is guaranteed to be a fun, swinging and enlightening programme."

Time: Mon, 9th Feb 2009. 7 p.m.
Venue: Mazda Hall
Organizers: Poona Music Society (The have their own website poonamusicsociety dot com)

Piano Recital: Beethoven, Liszt and Chopin

Arunesh Nadgir will perform at the Mazda Hall, Dastur School (opp. Ladies Club, near Blue Nile Hotel) and will treat the audience to Beethoven's Six Bagatelles, Liszt's Funerailles and Chopin's Barcarolle and Waltz.

Time: 6:30 p.m., 10 Jan 2009

Venue: Mazda Hall, Dastur Primary school.

Piano Concert

10th January, 2008, 6 PM
Venue: Mazda Hall

Banowetz has been heard as a recitalist and orchestral soloist on six continents in over thirty countries, with performances in past seasons with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Moscow State Symphony, the Prague and Bratislava Radio Orchestras, the Budapest Symphony, the Concert Society Orchestra of Barcelona, the New Zealand Symphony (on a twelve-concert national tour), the Beijing Central Philharmonic, the Shanghai Symphony and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. He was awarded the Liszt Medal by the Hungarian Liszt Society in Budapest for his outstanding performances of Liszt and the Romantic literature.