A Calendar of Events letting you know what, where and when is happening throughout the Chopin Year:
- Events: concerts, exhibitions, shows and many others
- Reports
- Interviews
- Kordegarda CHOPIN 2010
Martha & me
"Martha was surrounded by lots of people. She always drew them. I usually kept to the side, a little timid. I was only 14 years old..." - interview with Nelson Freire, Juror of the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.
A judge's ear
"Seeking originality in music does not always work. There are pianists who have imagination and temperament, but do not respect Chopin’s scores" - interview with Andrzej Jasiński, Juror of the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.
I wanted to be a priest
Bobby McFerrin talked to us just before presenting his Chopin project in Warsaw.
“I don’t have favourites”
We talked to Professor Andrzej Jasiński, chairman of the jury of the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, minutes after the results of the Preliminary Round were announced.
Aristocracy of spirit
Read a conversation with professor Regina Smendzianka: "You could say that Chopin was the composer of my life".
SYMBOL OF EXCELLENCE
Interview with Waldemar Dąbrowski, Chairman of the CHOPIN2010 Celebrations Committee.
CONVERSATION WITH PROFESSOR THEODOR KANITZER
"When I listen to Chopin’s music, my heart starts beating faster".
TRAVELLING WITH CHOPIN
"Loving Chopin and playing his music has always been a fact of life for me." Read a conversation with professor Barbara Hesse-Bukowska.
Nahorny - Chopin. Polish Fantasy
“Quotations are the starting point for all of my albums and arrangements. That’s also what we owe to the composer: presenting a fragment of the core, of the original.”