Palace Music: Bartosz Koziak – cello (Poland) Agnieszka Kozło – piano (Poland)
Program:
Fryderyk Chopin – Cello Sonata in G Minor Op. 65
Karol Szymanowski – Violin Sonata in D Minor Op.9 (trans. Wiłkomirski/Koziak)
Witold Lutosławski – Grave – Metamorphoses for cello and piano
Heino Eller – Prelude in G Minor
Cultural event of the Polish presidency of the Council of the EU
In cooperation with Polish Embassy in Tallinn and Polish Chamber Musician`s Association
Funded from the funds of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland within the framework of the Polish Culture Abroad program
Described as a “visionary and poet of the cello”, Bartosz Koziak has gained the acclaim of music lovers and critics not only for his extraordinary interpretation of works by both classical and contemporary composers but also for his thoughtful and often daring program choices.
He has performed at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Berliner Philharmonie, Rudolfinum in Prague, Cité de la Musique in Paris, Teatro Politeama in Palermo, the Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan and the National Philharmonic in Warsaw.
The orchestras he has played with as a soloist include the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, Warsaw Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Concerto Budapest, the Armenian State Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic, the Radio Orchestras in Warsaw and Budapest, the National Orchestra of Ukraine, and has been conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki, Jan Krenz , Antoni Wit, Gabriel Chmura, Jacek Kaspszyk, András Keller, Volodymyr Sirenko and Sergey Smbatayan.
He has been invited to leading festivals including Warsaw Autumn, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, Yerevan Music Perspectives, Young Euro Classic in Berlin, Musica Polonica Nova, Chopin i Jego Europa, Warsaw and East Meets West, Korea.
As an established performer of contemporary music, Bartosz Koziak was a long time and regular guest participant in Krzysztof Penderecki’s concert projects. He participated in the first CD recording of the Concerto grosso conducted by the composer and has performed most of his cello works.
Bartosz Koziak has given first performances of a number of works including the “DoubleCello Concerto” by Hanna Kulenty, the Cello Concerto by Anna Zawadzka-Gołosz, “Sixth commandment” by Elżbieta Sikora, performed together with “Quando stanno morendo. Diario polacco no.2” by Luigi Nono as part of the Sikora/Nono project with Les Métaboles ensemble and SWR Experimentalstudio
His discography includes recordings of Grażyna Bacewicz’s Second Cello Concerto, Krzysztof Meyer’s Cello Concerto “Canti Amadei”, Bohuslav Martinů’s Cello Concerto No.2 and the premiere recording of Feliks Nowowiejski’s Cello Concerto (DUX), two CDs with Justyna Danczowska of cello and piano works by Schubert, Schumann, Franck and Shostakovich, and an album of Martinů, Kodály and Ravel, recorded with Anna Maria Staśkiewicz (Sarton).
Bartosz Koziak won the 3rd Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition in 2001 in Warsaw, the 2nd prize at the Isang Yun Competition in Tongyeong (Korea) and is a laureate of the Mikola Lysenko International Competition in Kiev. He was awarded a Special Prize at the Prague Spring Competition and was winner of the 1st prize at the 11th International Competition of Contemporary Chamber Music in Kraków. He has also received prizes at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and ARD in Munich. In 2003, he received a special award from the Polish Culture Foundation presented by Ewa Podleś.
In the 2024/25 season, Bartosz Koziak will perform as a soloist in Görlitz with Martinů’s Cello Concerto No. 2 and in Bydgoszcz with Nowowiejski’s Cello Concerto, as well as in recitals promoting the album Laks – Weinberg – Rathaus in Estonia and the USA. He will perform with the V4 String Quartet in Prague, Budapest, Zielona Góra, Levoca.
He graduated with distinction “Magna cum Laude” from the classes ‘of Professor Kazimierz Michalik and Andrzej Bauer at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Warsaw, and from Philippe Muller’s class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris . Thanks to Kaja Danczowska, he plays a 19th-century copy of a J. Guadagnini instrument which the eminent Polish cellist Dezyderiusz Danczowski used for concerts. AGNIESZKA KOZŁO is one of the most versatile Polish chamber musician. In 1996, together with Katarzyna Ewa Sokołowska she has founded Ravel Piano Duo which led them to winning competitions in Marcopoulo (Greece) in 1996 and XI International Competition of Piano Duets in Jesenik (Czech Republic) in 1999 (where they also won the special award) and in 2002 they placed second in the competition Premio Valentino Bucchi in Rome. They are finalists of the competitions in Caltanisetta (Sicily) in 2001 and San Marino 2004. She graduated with honors from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, in the class of piano (Prof. Bronisława Kawalla) and in the class of chamber music (Prof. Maja Nosowska). She continued her postgraduate studies in the same Academy (Prof. Jan Ekier) and then, in the years 2001-2005, as a part of Ravel Piano Duo, she continued her postgraduate studies in Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Rostock (Germany) in the class of master duet Hans- Peter Stenzl und Volker Stenzl. The Duo completed the studies (Konzertexam) with top honors. For years now Agnieszka Kozło collaborates with cellists, in a partnership with Andrzej Bauer, Piotr Hausenplas, Tomasz Strahl, Bartosz Koziak. She is also a teacher and together with professors of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music prepares young cellists for competing in the most important cello competitions like that of Tchaikovsky’s in Moscow, Lutosławski’s in Warsaw (where since 2003, she is competition’s pianist) Danczowski’s in Poznań, Isang Yun’s in Tongyeong in Korea, and the Prague Spring. Many times she’s been awarded as the best pianist of the competition. The artist gave concerts in many places (Germany, Russia, Israel, Japan, Spain, Czech Republic, China, Greece, Iceland, England, Italy, and National Philharmonic and Studio of Witold Lutosławski in Poland). She made recordings for the Polish Radio, with Ravel Piano Duo she published record of French music for 4 hands, and the record with Ravel Piano Duo with Brahms’s works for chamber choir and piano duo received prestigious award of the Phonographic Academy “Fryderyk 2005”. Next CD in the series “A Polish Kaleidoscope”, featuring a selection of Polish compositions for four hands, received also the Fryderyk Award in 2016. In 2021, another album by Ravel Piano Duo: “Zygmunt Noskowski – Complete Works for Piano Duet” was nominated for the Fryderyk 2022 Award Agnieszka Kozło has been awarded the Doctor of Arts degree in 2011.
The artistic director of the Palace Music Concert Series is Aare Tammesalu.
In cooperation of the Art Museum of Estonia. Supporters: Estonian Ministry of Culture, The Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Public Broadcasting, Tallinn Culture and Sports Department, UNESCO City of Music Tallinn, Kultuuriküla, pointprint
Special thanks: Visit Tallinn, Õhtuleht Tickets are on sale at the box office of the Kadriorg Art Museum and Piletikeskus
The concert tickets are also valid for museum visits on the day of the concert
