FIRST INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR BASSO CONTINUO AND PARTIMENTO REALIZATION INFORMATION BOOKLET Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice January 12-14, 2019 organisers Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice Harpsichord and Historical Performance Practice Department Organisation: Prof. Marek Pilch Artistic directors: Prof. Marek Toporowski, Prof. Marcin Świątkiewicz, Prof. Marek Pilch. Competition office: Katarzyna Drogosz, Dominika Maszczyńska Cooperating institutions: Academy of Music in Łódź, Harpsichord and Early Music Department, baroque flute class of Prof. Magdalena Pilch Academy of Music, University in Ljubjana (delegating Prof. Dalibor Miklavčič as a jury member) Vocal Institute of the Academy of Music in Katowice Henryk Mikołaj Górecki Silesian Philharmonic NOSPR Chamber music partners: In the first round: Students in the baroque violin class of Prof. Martyna Pastuszka: Izabela Kozak, Marta Korbel, Antonina Cierpioł & Aleksandra Radwańska, and Martyna Pastuszka & Adam Pastuszka. Students in the baroque flute class of Prof. Magdalena Pilch: Aleksandra Gajkowska (AM Łódź), Radosław Orawski (AM Łódź) & Marta Gawlas (AM Katowice) In the second round: Instrumental ensemble: Antonina Cierpioł, Marta Korbel (violin), Szymon Stochniol (viola), Monika Hartmann (violoncello), Marta Gawlas & Aleksandra Gajkowska (baroque flute) Vocalist: Katarzyna Bełkius (soprano), Olena Zaiets (soprano), Barbara Grzybek (alto), Artur Plinta (alto) & Adrian Janus (bass). competition schedule FIRST ROUND Saturday, January 12, 2019 11:00 - 13:00 and 17:00 - 19:30 Sunday, January 13, 2019 11:00 - 13:00 and 16:00-17:30 ca. 18:30 results of the first round SECOND ROUND (FINAL) Monday, January 14, 2019 15:00-17:30 ca. 18:30 final results The competition will take place at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, at the Bolesław Szabelski recital hall. The competition is open to the public and entrance is free. first round schedule SATURDAY (12.01) 11:00 Masako Awaji (1) 11:30 Tomasz Bonikowski (2) 12:00 Nathan Mondry (3) 12:30 Rebeka Balaska (4) 13:00 interval 17:00 Agata Meissner (5) 17:30 Maurycy Raczyński (6) 18:00 Chen NengYi (7) 18:30 Alexandra Tambovtseva (8) 19:00 Artur Wrona (9) SUNDAY (13.01) 11:00 Dorota Stawarska (10) 11:30 Iason Marmaras (11) 12:00 Sofija Grgur (12) 12:30 Niels Pfeffer (13) 13:00 interval 16:00 Filip Presseisen (14) 16:30 Johannes Rake (15) 17:30 Paweł Pawłowicz (16) The competitors will perform basso continuo realization on a harpsichord and improvise compositions based on a given scheme (partimento). They will collaborate with instrumentalist and vocalists - the students and teachers of the Academies in Katowice and in Łódź. competition requirements PRESELECTION François Couperin – two contrasting movements of one of the Concerts Royaux (with any appropriate instrumentation). The applicant should realise the basso continuo part on a harpsichord. FIRST ROUND • Johann Mattheson – one of the four Probstücke The selection has been announced at the end of September, 2018. • A seventeenth-century sonata for violin and basso continuo (Dario Castello, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Marco Uccellini, Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli or contemporaries). The participant should choose one of the five selected sonatas, the selection has been announced at the end of September, 2018. • Two movements of a French flute sonata or suite (Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Pierre Danican Philidor, Michel Pignolet de Montéclair or contemporaries). The selection has been announced at the end of September, 2018. The day before the first round the participants will draw lots as to which movements will be performed. • Two movements (one slow and one fast) of an eighteenth-century sonata in Italian style of moderate difficulty (Georg Friedrich Haendel etc., G. PH. Telemann, Gasparo Visconti Cremonese, Antonio Vivald or contemporaries) The participants will be given the music on the day of the performance. SECOND ROUND (FINAL) • A Neapolitan Partimento. The participants will be given the music the day before the final round after the results of the first round. • A recitative and aria by Georg Friedrich Handel to be performed with a soloist and a string ensemble. The participant should choose one of the five. The selection has been announced at the end of September 2018. • A performance of a basso continuo part in selected movements from the Suite in B minor BWV 1067 by Johann Sebastian Bach: Ouverture (obligatory) and two dances selected by the participant. jury JAN TOMASZ ADAMUS A conductor, organist, harpsichordist and culture creator specialising in period performance of classical music ranging from Renaissance polyphony to Romantic symphony and opera. He studied in Krakow and Amsterdam and taught at the Academy of Music in Wrocław for a number of years. He has prepared many Polish premieres of great international repertoire for period instruments, which include Bach’s St Matthew Passion; Handel’s Messiah, Theodora, Hercules, Amadigi, Sosarme, Tamerlano and Rodelinda; Beethoven’s Missa solemnis; Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, to name just a few. He has performed at a number of prestigious festivals and venues, most recently at Wratislavia Cantans, the Festival of Polish Music, the concert hall of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, SWD Festspiele Schwetzingen, Bachfest Leipzig and Händel Festspiele Halle. In particular, he is esteemed for his performances of vocal and instrumental pieces. In 2008 he was appointed General and Artistic Manager of Capella Cracoviensis, an institution of culture which is a chamber choir and period instrument orchestra based in Krakow. In the recent years Capella Cracoviensis has become an exemplary model of successful management as the orchestra belongs to the most important ensembles in Europe specialising in historical performance practice, while the reputation of the choir, because of the exceptional colour and vividness of sound, has been growing among the best record labels. As a culture creator, Jan Tomasz Adamus stood behind the launch of Theatrum Musicum, a joint project developed by music institutions of Krakow which is turning into one of the biggest classical music scenes in Europe. Since 2000 he has been Artistic Director of the Bach Festival Swidnica, one of the largest and most recognisable festivals organised outside major centres of musical life and, at the same time, a remarkably organic and culture-forming event. His numerous recordings include solo organ repertoire, Polish old music, Romanticism on period instruments (Chopin, Schubert) and contemporary music (Arvo Pärt). Recently, together with Capella Cracoviensis, he has carried out a number of extremely innovative stage projects including operas, crossover projects and social performances (Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Händel’s Amadigi di Gaula, Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice, Monteverdi in a milk bar, Mendelssohn performed by a choir in the woods and Mozart’s Requiem as karaoke). He is involved in the work of Opera Europa, an international organisation for opera houses and festivals from across the world. jury MARTIN GESTER is a French conductor, organist and harpsichordist. His earliest musical experience was of choral singing. He went on to learn the harpsichord and the organ, and completed courses of study in both literature and music at Strasbourg University and at the Conservatory of the same city. He now divides his time between musicological research, performance on harpsichord and organ, conducting vocal and instrumental ensembles, and teaching. His special interest is the repertory of the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1990, Martin Gester founded Le Parlement de Musique in order to put his research into practice, and this flexible vocal and instrumental ensemble soon achieved an international reputation. I Martin Gester has recently begun a long-term collaboration with two vocal ensembles, Les Pages et les Chantres de la Chapelle Royale de Versailles and the Maitrise de Bretagne, with whom Le Parlement de Musique gives concert tours performing French ‘grands motets’ and other Baroque choral works (Charpentier, Brossard, Gilles, Lalande, G.F. Handel,J.S. Bach) in France and abroad; many of these productions are recorded for the Opus 111 label and for European radio and television stations. Martin Gester has appeared as soloist and conductor throughout Europe, as well as on the American and Asian continents. As a soloist or with Le Parlement de Musique, he has made some thirty five recordings, mainly for the labels Opus 111, Accord, Assai and Tempéraments-Radio France. These are often recreations of little-known repertory or innovative readings of well-known works, and most of them have won awards in the musical press. Martin Gester teaches the Baroque repertory to singers and instrumentalists at the Strasbourg Conservatory, and is regularly invited to give masterclasses in France and abroad. In his approach to interpretation, he particularly emphasises the links between music and other disciplines, such as rhetoric, movement, dance, theatre, declamation and oral tradition. In 2001, Martin Gester was appointed Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French Minister of Culture. jury MARCIN ŚWIĄTKIEWICZ performs on different types of harpsichords, clavichords, fortepianos and organs, and dedicates much time and attention to improvisation. As a soloist, conductor and ensemble member he regularly collaborates with such leading ensembles as Brecon Baroque, Arte dei Suonatori,{oh!} Historical Orchestra,