Musical Evening in Memory of VAN CLIBURN

Presentation by Tamas Ungar, Professor of Piano at Texas Christian University ( Fort Worth)

Young Polish pianist MARCIN KOZIAK has been chosen to participate in Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. He currently is a student at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth under the tutorship of Professor Tamas Ungar and the Academy of Music in Krakow.

WHEN: May 17, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: RCC Our Texas

2337 Bissonnet Houston, TX 77005

ADMISSION: $20
Wine will be served.

Program:
Frédéric Chopin: Scherzo No.2 in B-flat minor
Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise in A-flat major
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sonata No.2 in B-flat minor
Claude Debussy: Preludes, Book I
Karol Szymanowski: Mazurkas
Christopher Theofanidis: Birichino

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Marcin Koziak was born in 1989 in Krakow, Poland, in a musical family. He is a student of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth (USA) under the tutorship of Professor Tamás Ungár and the Academy of Music in Krakow under the tutorship of Professor Stefan Wojtas. At the age of ten he won his first Poland-wide competition. As an eleven-year-old boy he made his debut with Krakow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.

He is a laureate of many Poland-wide and international competitions. The biggest ones are: II prize at the 5th International Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in Narva (Estonia, 2004), I prize at the 2nd International Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in Budapest (2006) and II prize and three additional prizes at the 7th International Competition for Young Pianists “Arthur Rubinstein in memoriam” in Bydgoszcz (Poland, 2007). He is a semifinalist and a laureate of three extra-statutory prizes of the 16th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2010), too. Marcin Koziak was invited and gave concerts on many festivals, e.g.: 30th La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival (France, 2010), ‘La Folle Journée au Japon’ (Tokyo,2010), 1st ASEM Culture and Arts Festival (Beijing, 2009), Rubinstein Piano Festival (Lodz,2011), ‘La Folle Journée au Varsovie’ (Warsaw, 2010), 10th International Festival “Kiev Summer Music Evenings” (2007), 66th International Chopin Festival in Duszniki Zdroj (2011) and on many more festivals and concert cycles in Geneva, Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Milan, Warsaw, Krakow, Lodz, Katowice. He performed with many orchestras e.g. Chinese National Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra, Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish Orchestra Sinfonia Iuventus, Beethoven Academy Orchestra and worked with conductors such as: Alexander Lazarev, Antoni Wit, George Tchitchinadze, Xieyang Chen, Maximiano Valdes, Yip Wing-sie, Charles Olivieri-Munroe, Marek Pijarowski, Pawel Przytocki, Stanislaw Krawczynski, Michal Dworzynski, Boguslaw Dawidow, Michal Nesterowicz, Pavel Kotla. He performed in the Tokyo International Forum, Forbidden City Concert Hall (Beijing), National Centre for the Performing Arts (Beijing), Art Center of Kobe (Kobe, Japan), Auditorium di Milano, Cadogan Hall (London), Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, Salle Cortot (Paris), Great Hall in Conservatory in Geneva, Verdi Hall in Conservatory in Milan, National Opera in Warsaw and in the other concert halls in Japan, China, USA, Russia, Ukraine, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, France, Great Britain, Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Romania, Georgia, Estonia and Hungary. His concerts were trasmitted by e.g. japanese radio Ottava, radio France Musique, Polish Radio and Polish Television.

On 4th May 2011 he had a privilege to gave a recital in Warsaw for Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden and for the First Lady of Republic of Poland Anna Komorowska during the official visit of HM in Poland. On 1st July 2011 he took part in a grand concert in Baths of Caracalla in Rome organized on the occasion of the beginning of Polish Presidency in European Union. He played on the Opening Gala of the Frederic Chopin Museum in Warsaw on 1st March 2010 (at the day of 200th anniversary of the composer’s birthday). In December 2011 he had the honor to gave a recital for President of Republic of Poland Bronisław Komorowski.

His achievements were the reason for giving him a lot of prizes and scholarships (among the others, the Scholarship of Minister of Culture and National Heritage “Young Poland 2008” and the Scholarship of Jolanta and Aleksander Kwasniewski Foundation).