S. A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish Studies at Central Connecticut State University is proud to announce the Polish Studies Program Celebrating 50th Anniversary 1974-2024 by joining us for an evening of beautiful Polish music performed
by
Ewa Pobłocka
Friday, January 26, 2024 at 6:00PM
Torp Theatre, located in Davidson Hall Building CCSU, New Britain, CT
The event is FREE and open to the public.
Ewa Pobłocka
Ewa Pobłocka is a prize-winner of the 10th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (1980), the International Viotti Music Competition in Vercelli (1977) and the International Festival of Young Laureates in Bordeaux (1979). She has performed throughout Europe and the Americas, as well as in China, Indonesia, the RSA, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and Australia, not only as a soloist, but also as an accomplished chamber musician. She has given numerous first performances and made world premiere recordings of works by Polish contemporary composers. She has recorded more than 50 discs for Deutsche Grammophon, Polskie Nagrania, CD Accord and Bearton, among many others. She has also recorded and performed period instruments from Chopin’s era. Many of her recordings have won prizes and critical acclaim. She is the first Polish pianist in history to record both volumes of Das Wohltemperierte Klavier by Bach. Recently she has performed both the volumes during the recitali series in many venues in Europe. She is a distinguished pedagogue, teaching at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. Pobłocka has given numerous master classes all around the world. She has been a jury member of many international piano competitions, such as the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Artur Rubinstein Competition in Tel-Aviv and Competitions in Hamamatsu or in Ettlingen, among many others. Ewa Pobłocka also willingly devotes herself to literary activities – her first book, ‘Forte-piano’, was released in 2021. Since 2020, she has been running the broadcasts ‘Start with Bach’ and ‘Bach’s Cases” in Polish Radio.
The concert is supported in part by The Tadeusz Sendzimir Fund at Connecticut Community Foundation,
The Polish American Foundation of CT, The Music Department and The Community Engagement and Social Research at CCSU
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