24.10.2015 – The Laureates Gala Concert of Festival of Arts ArtNoble 2014
ArtNoble – the award for the outstanding “Creative artPersonality” for the best diploma of visual and music arts of Public Schools of Arts, unique artistic personality that is filled with passion and creative artEnergy whose work/works is/are produced on the European level and draw recipients’ attention.
The Laureate is chosen out of the candidates that were proposed by Schools of Arts in Poland – prof. Jan Tutaj is an Arts Officer of artNoble Fine Arts, he holds the function of pro-vice chancellor at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow – and by Music Conservatories – an Arts Officer of artNoble Music is prof. Ewa Iżykowska-Lipińska – pro-vice chancellor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.
An interview for TVP Warszawa (since 14th minute of the film) – Laureate of artNoble 2014 – Marta Kordykiewicz, Prof. Ewa Iżykowska-Lipińska – an Arts Officer of artNoble Music.
http://warszawa.tvp.pl/22334406/24102015
On 24th of November 2015, at Bielany Chamber Hall of Mazovian Music Theatre, the Laureates’ Concert of ArtNoble 2014 took place. The present guests were welcomed by Director of Mazovian Music Theatre – Alicja Węgorzewska, prof. Artur Krajewski – the author of Interdisciplinary Festival of Art “City of Stars”, prof. Ewa Iżykowska-Lipińska – an Arts Officer of artNoble Music and the representatives of Self-Government of the City Żyrardów. The concert was hosted by prof. Barbara Gogol-Drożniakiewcz.
The Laureates of ArtNoble 2014 participated in the concert as well as invited guests:
Marta Kordykiewicz – cello.
Marta Kordykiewicz – Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw
Manuel de Falla – Suite Popluaire Espagnole
- El Paño Moruno
- Nana
- Canción
- Polo
- Asturiana
- Jota Witold Lutosławski – Grave Claude Debussy – Cello and piano sonata I. Prologue: Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto II. Sérénade: Modérément animé III. Final: Animé, léger et nerveux
Born 1990. She started to take cello lessons when she was 7 years old. She graduated with honours degree from OSM II st. im. Zenona Brzewskiego in Warsaw at class of prof. Andrzej Orkisz. Currently, she is a graduate of Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw at class of prof. Tomasz Strahl and Rafał Kwiatkowski. Since October 2015 she is going to study at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, at prof. Reinharda Latzko class. She won many prestigious awards at numerous competitions: 7th Kazimierz Wiłkomirski International Youth Cello Competition in Poznań (first place and special award), 7th 20th and 21st Century Music Competition for Young Performers in Radziejowice (first place), 9th National Dezydery Danczowski Cello Competition in Poznań (first place and special award), 7th Michał Spisak International Music Competition in Dąbrowa Górnicza (first place and two special awards), as chamber player at Chmaber Music Festival in Oleśnica (second place), 6th International Johannes Brahms Chamber Music Competition in Gdańsk (distinction), 18th Kiejstut Bacewicz International Chamber Music Competition in Łódź ( third place). Along with the trio she won Rectors’ Award at the Competition Concert as a part of Arts Festival of Youth 2012 in Poznań. She is a laureate of 27th “Week of Talents” Festival.
Jekaterina Drzewiecka – piano, Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz
1.R. Schumann- Arabesque
- Verdi- F. Liszt: paraphrase on Verdi’s Rigoletto
She was born in Murmansk, Russian, and till 2010 lived in Latvia. Jekaterina started to take piano lessons at the age of 6 in the Youth Music School in Latvia in Marina Silantieva class. Since 2002 she has studied in Emil Darzin Special Music School in Sergey Osokin’s class and from 2008 in his class in the Riga Conservatory of Music. In 2009, as one and only musician from Latvia, she was awarded with a scholarship to the Peter Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music in Moscow, where she studied in Stanislav Igolinsky class. In 2012 Jekaterina got a bachelor degree and in 2014 a master degree in Andrzej Jasinski’s class in Felix Nowowiejski Musical Academy in Bydgoszcz.
The artist has a wide repertoire, which she has performed in many European countries like Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, France, Estonia, Russia, Germany, Finland, The Netherlands, Ukraine and Poland. She gave numerous performances in prestigious concert halls like Rachmaninov Hall and Small Concert Hall in the Conservatory of Music in Moscow, grand concert halls of philharmonics in Riga, Lvov, Czestochowa, Bydgoszcz, Zielona Góra, Kosice, Krakow, Slupsk, concert halls of Musical Academies in Paris, Enschede, Tallinn, Helsinki, Vilnius, Gdansk and also in Radziejowice Palace, Antonin Palace in Poland and Dzintary Concert Hall and Golden Hall in Riga.
Tomasz Betka made a special guest appearance at the concert. He presented the material from his latest album “Miniatures”.