BEETHOVEN250 YEARS ANNIVERSARY

1770 - 2020

BEETHOVEN MASTERPIECES 5TH PIANO CONCERTO AND 5TH SYMPHONY

IN

A BRILLIANT CHAMBER MUSIC VERSION

Szymon Nehring - piano

Szymon Nehring is one of the most gifted and promising pianists of the younger generation in Poland. He is the only Pole to win the First Prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, one of the most important piano competitions in the world.

In autumn 2017 he began his studies with Prof. Boris Berman at Yale School of Music. He studied at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz in the class of Prof. Stefan Wojtas, with whom he worked since 2013. Before that, he studied piano in the class of Olga Łazarska at the Mieczysław Karłowicz Primary Music School in Kraków and at the Fryderyk Chopin Secondary Music School in Kraków for 11 years.

In 2014 he won First Prize at the Arthur Rub ins te in in Memor iam In te r nat iona l Competition in Bydgoszcz. In 2015 he received a Krystian Zimerman scholarship and performed in the finals of the 17th Fryderyk Chopin

International Piano Competition to win an Honourable Mention, the Audience Prize as well as a number of extra prizes. In 2017 he won the First Prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv as well as several extra prizes, including the Best Performance of a Chopin Piece Prize.

His debut CD with music by Polish composers received the Fryderyk Award 2016 from the Polish Phonographic Academy (in the category Album of the Year – Solo Recital), the Joker from Crescendo magazine, and the Supersonic Award from Pizzicato magazine. The year 2016 saw the release of the artist’s two albums: Chopin’s Piano Concertos with the Sinfonietta Cracovia orchestra conducted by Jurek Dybał and Krzysztof Penderecki, as well as Krzysztof Penderecki’s Piano Concerto “Resurrection” under the composer’s baton. The artist’s latest recording includes Chopin’s works performed on a period instrument (Erard 1858). Szymon Nehring has given concerts in Russia, China, Ukraine, Estonia, Hungary, Romania, Austria, Germany, France, Norway, Italy, Israel, Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Canada, and the United States.

He has performed with orchestras such as the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Santander Orchestra, Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra and the majority of Polish orchestras, the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberger  Symphoniker, L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, collaborating with conductors including Jerzy Maksymiuk, Jacek Kaspszyk, Grzegorz Nowak, Pablo Heras-Casado, Karina Canellakis, Giancarlo Guerrero, Omer Meir Wellber, John Axelrod, Lawrence Foster, and Krzysztof Penderecki.

 




PROGRAM

Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 - 1827 ) - Piano Concerto no 5 E flat major Op. 73 'Emperor'

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Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 - 1827 ) - Symphony no 5 in C Minor, Op. 67

IL GIARDINO D’AMORE Il Giardino d’Amore comes from Italian name, which literally means „Garden of Love”. The inspiration for its creation was one of the frescoes by Giotto.

The orchestra was founded in 2012 during the Bach Festival in Kraków. At that time Stefan Plewniak was invited to cooperate with the orchestra of Jordi Savall – Le Concert des Nations in Barcelona, where he met an excellent harpsichordist Marco Vitale. This cooperation proved to be very fruitful for the Il Giardino d’Amore and its further development. In the years 2011, 2012 and mid-2013 the orchestra performed at festivals such as the Bach Festival in Vienna, Utrecht Oude Muziek Festival, Tartini Festival in Piran. In autumn 2013 the orchestra held their first tour in the USA and Canada, and performed at Festival of Early Music Celebration in New York.

In 2014 Il Giardino performed in the prestigious concert hall of Mozarteum in Salzburg, as well as was invited to the festival in Oslo, Norway. During their second tour in USA they performed in Carnegie Hall New York and California, where members of Il Giardino led the master class at the Universities of Los Angeles and San Diego. The orchestra since its creation performed the repertoire of Italian and French opera; sacred music and Italian instrumental masterpieces.

Years 2013 – 2018 are dedicated to French music. This fascination started by the recording „Cantates & Petits Macarons”, the CD with french cantatas in 2013, than presentation of the opera ballet by J.Ph.Rameau – Les Indes Galantes in 2015 and 2016, and representations of another opera by Rameau – Naïs on tour in 2018.

The aim of 2016 was focused in large projects with polish sacred, and dance music. 2016 tour in US was dedicated entirely to the promotion, and popularization of this fascinating music field. For this project it was also created Il Giardino d’Amore choir, which since than work together with the orchestra in the secular, and sacred repertoire. The fruit of this dissertation was a CD ”The Heart of Europe – Corona Regni Poloniae 1500 – 1750” with a monumental music of Gorczycki, Zieleński, Mielczewski released in the fall of 2017.

In 2017 the orchestra held their first tour in China with the Handel opera repertoire. The same year Il Giardino d’Amore has recorded new CD with outstanding singers duo - countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński and mezzosoprano Natalia Kawalek. „Handel - Enemies in Love” released in 2018 was chosen as a CD of the week by London The Times, and CD of the Month by Opera Netherlands.

„a furious bravura”

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„spellbinding beauty”

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„sublime”

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