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SPRING 2018 Agustin Anievas, Kevin Kenner & Margarita Shevchenko Executive Director TABLE of CONTENTS Jadwiga Viga Gewert CHOPIN FOUNDATION OF THE UNITED STATES, INC. Officers & Directors Krzysztof Penderecki - Honorary Chairman Blanka A. Rosenstiel - Founder & President Olga Melin - Vice President Richard Lubman - Treasurer Renate Ryan - Secretary Directors Agustin Anievas, Roberta O. Chaplin, Norman Edelcup, Rosa Rita Gonzalez, Keith Gray, Edith Hall Friedheim, Vivianne Swietelsky Volume XXVIII / Number 2 Artistic Consultants Panel Dr. Adam Aleksander, Chair SPRING 2018 Agustin Anievas, Kevin Kenner & Margarita Shevchenko Executive Director TABLE OF CONTENTS Jadwiga Viga Gewert Regional Councils of the Chopin Foundation Message from the Founder/President ...........................................................4 San Francisco Chopin Council—Mack McCray, President Northwest Chopin Council—Adam Aleksander, President Donors and Contributors ...........................................................................................5 Virginia Chopin Council—Robert Joskowiak, President Message from the Executive Director .............................................................6 Scholarship Committee Highlights from the 2017-2018 Season .......................................................... 7 Dr. Adam Aleksander, Peter Miyamoto, Tian Ying Chopin Prizes, National & Florida State MTNA Competition ........8 Advisory Board Scholarship Information .............................................................................................9 Bonnie Barrett - Yamaha Artist Services Joel Harrison - American Pianists Association 2018 Chopin Concert Season ............................................................................... 10 Gary Ingle - Music Teachers National Association Ron Losby - Steinway & Sons 2020 Competition ............................................................................................................ 11 Some Thoughts About Chopin, by Allan Walker .........................................12 International Artistic Advisory Council Agustin Anievas, Martha Argerich, Emanuel Ax, Jeffrey N. Babcock, Chopin Foundation Council of San Francisco .........................................15 John Bayless, Luiz Fernando Benedini, John Corigliano, Christopher T. Dunworth, Chopin Foundation Council of Northwest ...................................................16 Charles Dutoit, Nelson Freire, Bruno Leonardo Gelber, Gary Graffman, Horacio Gutierrez, Marta Istomin, Byron Janis, James Judd, Cyprien Katsaris, Zoltan Koscis, Chopin Foundation Council of Virginia ..........................................................17 Garrick Ohlsson, Paloma O’Shea, Daniel Pollack, Maurizio Pollini, Abbey Simon, Michael Tilson Thomas, Charles Wadsworth, Susan Wadsworth, Krystian Zimerman IFCS ............................................................................................................................................ 18 Sponsors ................................................................................................................................ 18 Editorial Polonaise is published semi-annually by the Chopin Foundation of the USA Contributions/Donations ...........................................................................................19 1440 79th Street Causeway, Suite 117, Miami, FL 33141 Editorial Office: 305.868.0624 • 305.865.5150 (Fax) E-mail: [email protected] • Website: www.chopin.org Publisher: Lady Blanka A. Rosenstiel Cover photo: The Chopin Concerts at the Royal Łazienki Park are the Executive Editor: Jadwiga Viga Gewert oldest annual outdoor events in Warsaw, Poland and performed at the foot of the Monument to Chopin. Editor: Barbara Muze, Marketing/Development Manager Contributors: Adam Aleksander, Robert Joskowiak, Mack McCray, Beata Paszyc, Copyright © Chopin Foundation of the United States, Inc. All rights reserved. Lynne Schaefer, Dr. Alan Walker Design: Rick Tuckerman, Zoom IQ Creative Marketing Message From The Founder and President “Music is the universal languageHENRY WADSWORTH of mankind.” LONGFELLOW “Where words fail, HANSmusic CHRISTIAN speaks.” ANDERSEN One of the truly great pleasures in my the very first Frost Chopin Academy at the University of Miami. All of these Blanka A. Rosenstiel life has been to witness the amazing young people hold not only the future of Chopin’s music in their hands – Founder and President power that Chopin’s music has to literally – but they also represent the future of our culture and civilization. unite people from all walks of life and We must support them. We must continue to give them opportunities to from every corner of the world. It does not matter your nationality, your learn and perform great things. And we must keep them safe so that they politics or your religion, when it comes to the music of Chopin, we are all can develop into healthy, creative and inspirational young adults. under the same spell of his beautiful melodies. This is the wonderful thing about great music and why it is more important now than ever to make sure Looking towards the horizon, I see the 2020 National Chopin Piano this universal body of music is available to everyone – today and long into Competition rising like a giant sun. We will once again shine a bright the future. spotlight on the next group of so very talented American contestants through this important national event. And to make sure our Chopin This is also why I am so proud of the Chopin Foundation, because we superstars receive the support and recognition they deserve, the winners continually seek new ways to keep the music of Chopin alive and flourishing will take home prize awards totaling over $165,000! But in order to make in the United States. In this issue we recognize the winners of special Chopin this happen, we need your help. I encourage our dear Chopin members, Prizes that were established in collaboration with the Music Teachers sponsors and our entire Chopin family to be motivated by the music, and National Association and the Florida State Music Teachers Association. And by the next generation of young pianists who will keep this music alive, to next month we will once again feature our local South Florida young aspiring support our efforts in whatever way you can (please see the donation form Chopin artists at our Chopin for All concert. Then, this summer we will have on page 17 of this Polonaise). Together we can make this world the kind of many of our Chopin Scholarship recipients traveling to Miami to study at place that appreciates and encourages beauty through the arts. 4 // Polonaise Spring 2018 Donors and Contributors Founder to those whoseWe vision extend and support our have helpeddeepest us this thanks year with our mission: Friends of Broward Libraries Lady Blanka A. Rosenstiel to develop the next generation of great musicians! May we continue Gray & Sons Jewelers * Greater Miami Convention & to add to this esteemed roster others who would join us in support of our goals. 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