MIĘDZYNARODOWA   LETNIA                 AKADEMIA  MUZYKI  DAWNEJ

Anna Radziejewska  - (mezzosoprano) has finished her studies in the class of Professor Jerzy Artysz in Frederic Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw. She is a laureate of many national and international competitions. She  performed in many opera theatres and concert halls under the guidance of such a splendid conductors as :Harry Bicket and Ivor Bolton(Bayerische Staatsoper - G. F. Haendel - Rinaldo), Attilio Cremonesi (Luzernertheater, Hebbeltheater Berlin, Theater an der Wien, Braunschweig Grosses Haus, Burghof Lörach, Schlosstheater Residenzschloss Ludwigsburg., Opera Koeln, WDR Concert Hall Koeln,  Stadschowburg Amsterdam, Freiburg Theater - Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Haendel, Peri - together with Collegium Musicum Koeln and Concerto Vocale), Andreas Spering (Vlaamse Opera -G. F. Haendel-  Rinaldo), Sebastien Rouland (Luzernertheater - W. A. Mozart - Lucio Silla, G. F. Haendel - Rinaldo),Jan Pasveer (Het Concergebouw - J. S.Bach - Matthaus Passion),  Johannes Debus (Luzernertheater,  S. Sciarrino - Macbeth), Tito Ceccherini (S. Sciarrino - Da gelo a gelo - Schwetzingen Festival(world premiere) , Opera National de Paris , Grand Theatre de Geneve; S. Sciarrino – Superflumina – Nationaltheater Mannheim (World Premiere)), Beat Furrer (S.Sciarrino – Luci mie traditrici – Salzburg Festspiele, Teatro Zarzuela Madrit, Maerzfestival Berlin), Jean Christoph Spinosi (G.F.Haendel – Alcina – Opera National de Paris, Grand Theatre Aix-en –Provence), Daniel Grossmann (S. Nemtsov – Herzland – Bayerische Staatsoper),Evan Christ(S.Sciarrino – Macbeth – Salzburg Festspiele),Friedemann Layer(L. Janacek- Katia Kabanova- Opera du Rhin)  and also: Antoni Wit, Wojciech Michniewski, Jacek Kasprzyk, Marek Moś Michel Tabachnik, Marco Angius, Jean Tubery. She performed in the productions of such a directors like Robert Carsen(Ruggiero-Alcina , Varvara - Katia Kabanova ), Trisha Brown (Izumi - Da Gelo a Gelo), Rebeca Horn(La Malaspina- Luci mie traditrici ), Joachim Schloemer(Larmes du ciel, Guerra d’amore, Engel der Verzweiflung, Nostalgia), Ludger Engels( Cecilio-Lucio Silla, Rinaldo - Rinaldo, La donna - Superflumina) Ryszard Peryt(Rinaldo, Olga – Eugene Oniegin, Dorabella – Cosi fan tutte, Cecilio – Lucio Silla, Giuditta – Betulia Liberata, II Dame – Die Zauberflöte), Mariusz Treliński, Marek Weiss, Reinhild Hoffmann, Maciej Prus, , Andrea Schwalbach, Jitka Stokalska(Rosina - Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Angelina - La Cenerentola). She also has a rich concert repertoire which includes many recitals (with such musicians like Katarzyna Jankowska and Mariusz Rutkowski – piano, Maurizio Grandinetti – gitarre, Lilianna Stawarz - cembalo ), oratorio concertos and concerts with baroque and contempory music ensembles(Collegium Musicum Koeln, Concerto Vocale, Il Tempo, MACV, Musicalia,  Sinfonietta Żilina, Klangforum Wien, Allgoritmo, Icarus. La Fenice ). Since 2004, after her debut as Lady Macbeth in “Macbeth” in Luzerne  cooperation with composer – Salvatore Sciarrino – 2006 – 2008 – Izumi in “Da gelo a gelo”(Schwetzingen, Paris, Geneve), 2008- La Malaspina in “Luci mie traditrici”(Salzburg, Wienna), 2009 – La Malaspina in ‘Luci mie traditrici” (Madrit), “L’altro giardino” – world premiere – Roma, 2010 – L’altro giardino – Suzarra, La Malaspina in “Luci mie traditrici” (Berlin), 2011 – La Donna in “Superfumina” – world premiere (Mannheim, Aachen), Lady Mabeth in “Macbeth”(Salzburg), “Cantiere del poema”-world premiere (Citta di Castello). She is laureated of A. Hiolski Prize for the best debut in 2001 , Bronze Medal Gloria Artis- 2010 and Silver Merit Cross 2012.

CD recordings:

I.J.Paderewski – Complete songs (with Mariusz Rutkowski  DUX 2007)nomination for Fryderyk Prize 2008

K.Szymanowski – Songs (with Mariusz Rutkowski)DUX 2008 – nomination for Fryderyk Prize 2009, Prix special  Orfee D’Or 2009, Paris

G.F.Haendel – Giulio Cesare (Giulio Cesare) WOK 2009

S. Sciarrino – Macbeth (Lady Macbeth) – Salzburgerfestspiele, Con legno 2012

S. Sciarrino – L’Altro giardino, Cantiere del poema – Stradivarius 2012

W. Lutosławski - Songs and carols( with  Mariusz Rutkowski) DUX 2013

 

 

Simon Standage - As a specialist in historical violin techniques of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Simon Standage has performed with many of the world's leading period instrument orchestras. After a music degree from Cambridge University in 1963, a Harkness Fellowship to study with Ivan Galamian in New York City, and, after a 1972 Wigmore Hall debut, he became a founding member of Trevor Pinnock's ensemble the English Concert. Standage served as first (solo) violinist of this ensemble from 1973 to 1991; his recording of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons with the English Concert received a Grammy nomination. Standage also played extensively with the English Chamber Orchestra from 1974 to 1978, led the City of London Sinfonia from 1980 to 1989, and served as associate director of the Academy of Ancient Music from 1991 to 1995. Appointed professor of Baroque violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1983, he has taught at the Dresden Akademie für Alte Musik since 1993. In addition to these longtime associations,Standage has founded two ensembles devoted to historically aware string performance. The Salomon Quartet, which he founded in 1981, specializes in applying period instruments and approaches to the eighteenth century quartet and quintet repertory. In 1990, Standage and Richard Hickox founded the group Collegium Musicum 90. Under contract with Chandos Records, Collegium Musicum 90 produced more than 40 recordings in its first decade, from large-scale dramatic works to acclaimed trio sonata recordings.

 

 

Donna Agrell - began her musical studies at the Universitiy of Alaska and later, the University of Wisconsin, in Madison. Continuing in Europe, she had master classes with the Danzi Quintet and Brian Pollard, and after attending the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, completed her bassoon studies at the Musik-Akademie Basel, in Switzerland. In 1980, she became a member of Sigiswald Kuijken’s orchestra, La Petite Bande, where she performed and recorded extensively during the ten years she spent in that ensemble. Donna Agrell has been a member of the Orchestra of the 18th Century since it was founded in 1981 by Frans Brüggen, and in 1990, she also became principal bassoonist of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Recordings with these orchestras, including the Mozart bassoon concerto in 2006, number close to 100.

She has appeared in concerts and recordings with many other period instrument orchestras and ensembles, such as Bach Collegium Japan, Orchestra Classica Libera, Mozart Academy Amsterdam and Anima Eterna, working with Gustav Leonhardt, Roger Norrington, Philippe Herreweghe, Trevor Pinnock, Simon Rattle, Masaaki Suzuki, Nicholas McGegan, Rene Jacobs, Jos van Immerseel, Thomas Hengelbrock, Kent Nagano, and others. In addition to her present positions at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, and La Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, she has also taught at the Amsterdam Conservatory, Freiburg Hochschule, and international mastercourses and workshops in the USA, Europe, Asia, South America and Australia.  Enrolled in the doc.ARTES program at Orpheus Institute (Gent) and Leiden University, she is currently researching “An Early 19th Century Grenser & Wiesner Bassoon from Stockholm and its Repertoire”.

 

 

Daniël Brüggen - was born in Haarlem/Holland in 1958, where he started playing the recorder at an early age. He has studied with Kees Boeke at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, where he graduated as a soloist in 1983.

During his studies he became one of the founding members of the renowned Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet which after winning the Brugge competion took the world by storm. With this ensemble he has travelled all over the world and made recordings for Decca, Channel Classics and NM Classics, two of them winning the prestigious Edison Award.Daniël Brüggen currently teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Royal Conservatory The Hague and the Conservatory of Utrecht.

As an ensemble specialist he coaches various chamber music groups and is also involved in giving masterclasses in Europe, USA and Asia. As a soloist he performed with several Ensembles including London Baroque, The Academy of Ancient Music and the Camerata of the 18th Century. He forms a duo with harpsichordist Siebe Henstra.

 

 

Nicholas Parle - The Australian harpsichordist, studied harpsichord with David Kinsela while completing a BMus degree at the University of Sydney. Upon receiving a Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Award for Young Australians in 1985, he moved to London to broaden his musical horizons, and is indebted to the many colleagues throughout the world from whom he has learnt so much. In 1989 he won the 1st Prize at the International Harpsichord Competition in Brugge, Belgium, only the 3rd time in the 30-year history of the competition that a first prize had been awarded.Nicholas Parle appears as both a soloist and continuo player throughout Europe, Japan and Australia. Now professor of harpsichord at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, his other teaching engagements include courses in Poland, Hungary, Australia and Japan.

 

 

 

Lilianna Stawarz - Graduated with distinction from the harpsichord class of Władysław Kłosiewicz at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw (before Academy of Music) in 1988. Two years later she was awarded a diploma from the Conservatoire National de Region de Rueil-Malmaison in Huguette Dreyfus`class. She has taken part in numerous master courses devoted to the interpretative problems of Baroque music (Siena, Innsbruck, Villecrose, Cracow). Since 1991 she has cooperated with the Warsaw Chamber Opera playing harpsichord and performs as musical director — directing from the harpsichord and chamber organ J. S. Bach`s — St Mark Passion, cycle of the concerts „Songs and Arias” written by 18th Polish composers, works by A. Milwid and M. Zebrowski, Opera Omnia by M. Mielczewski and operas: H.Purcell`s Dido and Aeneas, D. Scarlatti`s Tetide in Sciro, G. Händel`s Rinaldo (as a assistant). As a musical director she recorded instrumental and vocal-instrumental music —M. Mielczewski`s Opera Omnia, Damian Stachowicz`s Opera Omnia. She participated in numerous concerts and festivals organised by Warsaw Chamber Opera playing basso continuo part in such important operas like: C. Monteverdi: Orfeo, Il Ritorno d`Ulisse in Patria, L`incoronazione di Poppea; J. Peri: L`Euridice; T. Merula:Satiro e Corisca; G. Haendel: Imeneo, Rinaldo, Giulio Cesare; J.Lully: Alceste; A. Campra: Tancrede; M. Monteclair: Jephte.She has also worked with J.C.Malgoire preparing and playing the performances of operas Catone in Utica by A. Vivaldi (Tourcoing) andIl Ritorno d`Ulisse In Patria by C. Monteverdi (Royaumont). She has cooperated with the polish baroque group Il Tempo since 1991. The ensemble specializes in instrumental and vocal-instrumental music from early Baroque to Classical period. It collaborates with Polish and foreign musicians performing early music on period instruments according to authentic performance practice. Il Tempo has performed extensively in Europe and the other countries (Brugge, Brussels, Utrecht, Moscow, New York, New Brunswick, Rome, Berlin). She has cooperted with A. Sapiecha, S. Standage, M. Coude, J. Oxley, A. Radziejewska, M. Wojciechowska, A. Stefanowicz, Olga Pasiecznik, M. Boberska, D. Lachowicz, J. Stanienda, A. Birulya, G. Lalek, T. Wojnowicz, Essentia Musica ensemble etc. She recorded three solo CD — 2003 — with C. P. E. Bach (CD ACCORD) , 2007 — with 8 great Suites of G. F. Haendel HWV 426-433 (Pro Musica Camerata) and in 2012 Inventions and Sinfonies of J. S. Bach (Polskie Radio). Since 1993 she has taught at the summer courses of the International Academy of Early Music in Wilanow (Poland), and since 2003 she is a assistant professor in Warsaw University of Music (harpsichord class in Bialystok).

 

 

 

 Petra Matejova -For more than a decade Petra Matějová combines in her carrier modern piano and fortepiano playing. Her interest is to approach each repertoir with the maximum care for the sound and interpretation esthetics of the time when it was conceived, which includes also the choice of instrument. Lead by her strong interest for the music of late 18th and early 19th century, Petra Matějová started to be active in the field of early music after graduating from the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts in modern piano. She was studying the fortepiano in Paris and Amsterdam, and currently she is finishing her PhD thesis on Voříšek´s piano works and the early 19th century piano style in an international doctorate programme at the Janáček Academy in Brno, Paris IV-Sorbonne and Paris Conservatory under Barbara Maria Willi, Jean-Pierre Bartoli and Kenneth Weiss. Petra Matějová divides her musical interest between the early repertoir on historical instruments and the 20th century repertoir on modern piano. As a chamber music player in modern repertoir she often appears together with the first flutist of the Symphonic Orchastra of Prague FOK Hana Brožová, members of the Škampa and Kocian quartets; in early music her main partners are the cellist Marek Štryncl and the ensembles Musica Florea, Ensemble Inégal, or singers Franziska Gottwald and Irena Troupová. She forms a piano duet with the polish fortepianist Katarzyna Drogosz. Petra Matějová appeared in the main recital series of her country, including two consecutive performances at the Prague Spring festival and a solo recital on both instruments at the major piano series in the Rudolfinum in Prague. She appeared in most European countries and is regularly invited to the festivals in Central Europe. In France, she has made a recording for the Mezzo TV as well as a solo CD with works by Schubert, Beethoven and Voříšek. She recordes frequently for the Czech Radio and has recorded pieces by Rejcha, Mozart, Janáček, Fibich, Voříšek, Tomášek, Franck, Haydn, Mendelssohn. Since 1995 Petra Matějová gives regular masterclasses in piano, fortepiano and chamber music. In 2007-2009 she has lead the fortepiano class at the Valtice Early music Summerschool and since 2008 teaches fortepiano at the Janáček Academy in Brno. She plays classical repertoir on the copy of Anton Walter & Sohn instrument from 1805 made in 2007 by Paul McNulty in Divišov.