Welcome to this Fund Raiser Dinner

Sponsored by Polish Culture Society

CHOPIN2010 Celebration Committee

 MENU

 Chef's Signature Salad with Wild Saskatoon Dressing

 (A selection of Salad Greens served with homemade Saskatoon Vinaigrette)

 Mango Sorbet

 Chicken Breast Chasseur

 (An 8 oz Chicken Breast, Served with a White Wine,

Mushroom, Tarragon and Tomato Sauce)

 OR

 Quinoa Stuffed Portobello Mushroom

 Parisienne Potatoes

 Batonettes of Carrots Served in Orange, Ginger & Dill Glaze

 Baby Mushrooms with Fresh Tarragon Garniture

 Crème Brulee

(Light custard made with cream and eggs.  Served with a fresh fruit

garnish, coulis and whipped cream)

 A Variety of Fresh Dinner Buns, Whipped Butter

 Tea & Coffee

 Elizabethan After Dinner Chocolates

OUR SPECIAL GUESTS:

Orest Soltykevych
Born and raised in Edmonton, Orest fell in love with classical music 
during his studies at the University of Alberta in music education. 
He then began his career teaching junior high band, and currently 
works as a school administrator. His love of radio began when his 
dad got a new reel-to-reel tape recorder, which Orest used to record 
Top 40 hits from the family stereo console from Woodward's. Orest 
eventually honed his radio skills at CJSR Radio, where he started the 
program "Sounds Ukrainian" and hosted it for 7 years.
Orest founded the Ukrainian Male Chorus in 1984, and is its current 
conductor. 
He has sung with the Richard Eaton Singers, and is currently a member 
of The Da Camera Singers. 
His passion is choral music, which he feels is one of man's greatest 
accomplishments - celebrating the beauty of the human voice in 
harmony with other singers!
 
Saturday Breakfast
Weekend mornings...a chance to sleep in, to take your time over breakfast, 
to come up for air.  That wonderful weekend feeling is captured on CKUA's 
SATURDAY and SUNDAY BREAKFAST programs, with hosts Orest Soltykevych 
and Mark Antonelli. The program features shorter, more up-beat selections 
from the nine-hundred year old tradition of classical music. The repertoire 
includes chamber music, classical guitar pieces, and piano works by everyone
 from Abel to Zemlinsky. Saturday and Sunday Breakfast, a relaxing and informative
 way to start your weekend mornings. Saturdays with Orest Soltykevych from 6-9 AM 
and Sundays with Mark Antonelli from 6-8:30 AM.

Jan Lisiecki - has been studying piano since the age of five at the Mount Royal University Conservatory, 

 and at age of 15, he is alredy making a name for himself on the Canadian and international stage.

He had his orchestral debut when he was nine and has since performed more than 40 times with orchestras

in Canada and internationally. At midnight on January 1, Jan had the honour of opening the Year of Chopin

 in Żelazowa Wola, Chopin’s birthplace in Poland. This event marked the official beginning of 

the Chopin 200th birthday celebrations around the world.

David Eggert was born and raised in Sherwood Park, Alberta, and he began studying cello at 
the age of five. Equally comfortable solo, as a chamber musician, or with an orchestra, 
his cello-playing has taken him to many strange and wonderful places around the world. 
Eggert toured Canada as the grand-prize winner of the Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition in 2006 
and went on to play as soloist in Croatia and Slovenia as the winner of 
the 2008 International Cello Competition Antonio Janigro in Zagreb. 
In Spring 2010, he’ll tour Switzerland and Austria appearing in a series of string quartet concerts, 
as well as recitals in Paris.
Anna Domanska is a pianist and a teacher with many years of experience and a very successful
 track record of achievements. Ms. Domanska has performed in both Europe and Canada, both 
as soloist and assisting artist.
She is a member of the College of Examiners and a Senior Piano Examiner for the Royal Conservatory
 of Music. She is active as a soloist, collaborative artist, teacher, adjudicator and examiner. 
She is on the Board of Directors for the Vancouver Chopin Society and currently is a member 
of the British Columbia Registered Music Teachers’ Association and the Music Teachers’ National Association. 
She is also artistic adviser for the Chopin 2010 Celebration Committee.
The Polonez Polish Folk Arts Ensemble under artiskic director of Dr. Walenty Michalik was founded 
in 1982,  and, since then, the group has become an integral part of Edmonton’s artistic and 
cultural stage, a permanent fixture at multicultural events in the greater Edmonton area, and 
the city’s Polish cultural ambassador. Polonez has also performed at the International 
Polish Folk Dance Festival in Rzeszow, Poland, 
several times in its short history.
Dancers: Anna Michalik, Katarzyna Tundak, Izabella Common, Cypriana Koziak, Magdalena Koziak,  
Paulina Kowal,  Jadwiga Janowska, Courtney Flisiak, Patrycja Zatonska, Anna Konikowska,  
Julia Komaniecka, Mikolaj Moss, Marek Komaniecki, Dariusz Bochinski,  Fabian Rogozinski,  
Ryszard Bochinski, Tomasz Cieslik,  Kristian Bergmann, Daniel Komaniecki, Bogdan Wasaznik,  
Marcin Tarnowski,  Marcin Szczepanski
 
Citie Ballet Dancers
Samanta Underhill is the youngest of seven and was raised in Kitscoty, Alberta where she began 
dancing at the age of 5 with the local dance academy. For a few years Samantha was a provincial 
athlete in competitive gymnastics and discovered quickly that she wanted to dance. 
She spent 2 years training at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and a summer school with 
the National Ballet School. With local dance groups Samantha has traveled to Russia and Hungary, 
and in 2008 competed in the Phyllis Bedelis Bursary in London. After successfully completing 
her Advanced 2 in R.A.D. with distinction and Grade 9 tap Al Gilbert with highest honours, 
Samantha is happily joining Citie Ballet this season!
Jason Vaz originally from Medicine Hat, Alberta, Jason began his formal ballet training at age 17. 
He trained for three years at the School of Alberta Ballet (Calgary, AB) and attended 
the Alberta Ballet's Summer School in 2005 and 2008. This past summer, Jason danced in 
the Okanagan Summer Dance Intensive, where he performed lead roles in Spartacus and La Maja y el Torero. 
In addition to ballet, Jason is an original member of the hip-hop crew Battlezone (Calgary, AB). 
Jason began dancing with Citie Ballet in the 2008-2009 season where he danced in Angels and Urban Links. 
He is looking forward to starting his second season with the company and will dance the lead role of Don Jose in the upcoming production of Carmen.
Outside of dance, Jason is currently a second year medical student at the University of Alberta.