Past EventsCalgary’s 15-year old piano prodigy Jan Lisiecki takes the stage at
Douglas J Cardinal Performing Arts Centre
Grande Prairie Regional College 10726 106 Ave,
November 5 at 7:30pm.
Tickets cost $25 ($20 for students/seniors) at 780-539-2442
Jan Lisiecki made his orchestral debut when he was nine and is already making a name for himself performing with orchestras on Canadian and international stages. At midnight January 1, Jan opened the Year of Chopin in Żelazowa Wola, Poland, the composer’s birthplace, marking the official beginning of the Chopin 200th birthday celebrations around the world.
Chopin created a new musical form – a Mazurka. His Mazurkas written under the influence of Polish folk music vary is tempo and character depending on which of the Polish dances they are based on: Mazur (rather fast and powerful), Oberek(very fast and happy) or Kujawiak (slow and melancholic).