Let us know about any celebrations or events related to Chopin in 2010. We are also opening an online image gallery for all interested.

If you have an image showcasing places related to Chopin, his life and legacy, please send them to gallery@chopin2010.ca We look forward to your creative contributions.

Polish Culture Society Chopin2010 Celebration Committee with special partner Red Deer Public Library presets CHOPIN on the Go

piano recital From Zelazowa Wola to Paris with

Zuzana Simurdova & Mikolaj Warszynski

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 2pm & 7pm

Snell Auditorium, Downtown Branch

Red Deer Public Library, 4818-49 Street

ADMISSION FREE

This multimedia performance with visual slides and costumes from Romantic era, where each piano piece is presented in context of its historical significance creating a theatrical storyline alongside the musical selections will bring us closer to Chopin as a composer and a person.

Among the compositions you will hear a prelude, waltz, mazurka, nocturne, scherzo, ballade, polonaise and more…..

Polish Culture Society of Edmonton Chopin2010 Celebration Committee presets

CHOPIN on the Go piano recital From Zelazowa Wola to Paris with

Zuzana Simurdova & Mikolaj Warszynski

Friday, September 17, 2010 at  7:30pm

 Steinway Concert Hall Irene Besse Keyboards           

Calgary, 152 11 Street SE

for tickets $10 (students/seniors) & $15 call 403.238.4508

This multimedia performance with visual slides and costumes from Romantic era, where each piano piece is presented in context of its historical significance creating a theatrical storyline alongside the musical selections will bring us closer to Chopin as a composer and a person.

Among the compositions you will hear a prelude, waltz, mazurka, nocturne, scherzo, ballade, polonaise and more…..

 September 23, 2010 at 7:30 pm in Yardbird Suite, Edmonton you are invited for a Jazz Concert presenting  Chopin & Jazz in One by Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio with Andrzej Jagodzinski, Adam Cegielski and Czeslaw Bartkowski from Poland.

Tickets cost $35 ($30 for students/seniors) and are available at TIX On The Square, 780-420-1757 or www.tixonthesquare.ca.

"His first recording by the Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio, Chopin, was named Best Record of 1994 by Jazz Forum and won the Fryderyk Award (the Polish Grammy) as best jazz record of the year. Jagodzinski's organically swinging and highly interactive trio continued to explore jazz interpretations of Chopin on 1997's Live at the National Philharmonic and 1999's Once More Chopin, helping to launch a "Chopin stream" in Polish jazz."
by Brian Morton, November 1994

http://www.jagodzinski.art.pl/

Polish Culture Society Chopin2010 Celebration Committee with special partner Beatniq Jazz & Social Club in Calgary presents CHOPIN on the Go with Chopin and Jazz in One  Friday, September 24  at 7pm & 9pm. Acclaimed internationally group from Poland Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio take stage in Beatniq Jazz & Social Club Calgary,  811 1 St SW for tickets $ 25 call 403.263.1650 or visit http://www.beatniq.com/

During the first week of October 2010 in the Metro Cinema at the Citadel Theatre complex we will feature a series of movies about Chopin. Details will follow.....

October 17, 2010 at 7:30 pm in Yardbird Suite, Edmonton you are invited for a Jazz Concert presenting  Chopin Songbook by Kuba Stankiewicz Group with Kuba Stankiewicz, Inga Lewandowska and Grzegorz Nagorski from Poland and guests Kent Sangster, Mike Lent and Sandro Dominelli. 

Tickets cost $35 ($30 for students/seniors) and are available at TIX On The Square, 780-420-1757 or www.tixonthesquare.ca.

 Polish Culture Society Chopin2010 Celebration Committee with special partner Red Deer Public Library presets CHOPIN on the Go - Chopin Songbook by Kuba Stankiewicz Group with Kuba Stankiewicz, Inga Lewandowska and Grzegorz Nagorski from Poland and guests Kent Sangster, Mike Lent and Sandro Dominelli. 

Monday, October 19, 2010 at 7pm in 

Snell Auditorium, Downtown Branch

Red Deer Public Library, 4818-49 Street

ADMISSION FREE

“Chopin's music was an inspiration to Kuba Stankiewicz, a leading pianist on the Polish acoustic jazz scene. 

In his project Chopin Songbook, carried out with vocalist Inga Lewandowska, Stankiewicz demonstrated considerable musical sensitivity, successfully making his own entry in the rich tradition of Chopin inspiration in Polish jazz.”

Jazz Jamboree; Warsaw Voice 23.10.2003

“Pianist Kuba Stankiewicz has produced a hauntingly atmospheric set of arrangements, which - greatly aided by the remarkable, vibrato-free voice of Inga Lewandowska - bring out the 'folk' elements of the original songs.  Suave sounds!”

                Discovery Records; Specialist Music CDs & DVDs

Calgary’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.