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Jul
16
7:00 PM19:00

Ognisko 80th Anniversary Gala Concert

Gala Concert celebrating 80 years since the founding of Ognisko - Polish Hearth, London.

Featuring music by

Krzysztof Ćwiżewicz

Henryk Wieniawski

Grażyna Bacewicz

Watch the concert recording here...

Members of Ognisko Ensemble

Clara Falkowska - trumpet

Filip Ćwiżewicz, Michał Ćwiżewicz - violins

Members of the Harlem Quartet

Melissa White, Ilmar Gavilan - violins

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Sep
13
to Sep 14

Hanna Hipp - Song Recital

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Guest Artist, mezzo-soprano Hanna Hipp will perform a song recital as part of the Ognisko Ensemble International Chamber Music Series 2018.

*TWO NIGHTS: 13 and 14 September*

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): A Charm of Lullabies Op.41
Maurice Ravel (1896-1914): Chants populaires
Johannes Brahms: 2 Songs for Soprano and Viola
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946): Siete canciones populares españolas
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): Eight Polish Songs

Hanna Hipp mezzo soprano; Emma Abbate, piano; Michal Cwizewicz viola

 http://ogniskopolskie.org.uk/events/ognisko-ensemble-hanna-hipp.aspx

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Jul
5
to Jul 6

OGNISKO ENSEMBLE Franck, Schubert, Szymanowski

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Franz Schubert       Violin Sonata in D major 'Sonatina', D384

Karol Szymanowski Myths Op. 30

César Franck          Sonata in A Major

The OGNISKO ENSEMBLE gave its first concert in 2015 at Ognisko Polskie in London where it is now resident for it's 2018 International Chamber Music Series. The ensemble brings together leading chamber musicians in programmes featuring string and piano ensembles, song and instrumental recitals, as well as collaborating with illustrious guest artists from the UK and abroad.

TICKETS 020 7589 4670 or
http://www.ogniskopolskie.org.uk/ognisko-shop/

Ognisko Ensemble
Piano John Paul Ekins
Violin Michal Cwizewicz

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Feb
23
7:30 PM19:30

Tchaikovsky & Bridge Piano Trios, Chopin Rondo Brilliante

CHOPIN Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C major, Op. 3
BRIDGE Phantasie Trio in C minor, H.79
  - interval -
TCHAIKOVSKY Trio in A minor, Op. 50

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Ognisko Ensemble
Piano John Paul Ekins
Violin Michal Cwizewicz
Cello Ella Rundle

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Tickets Member Price £15, Non-member Price £20, Students £8, Tickets include wine reception.
Box Office 020 7589 4670 Office@OgniskoPolskie.org.uk
Online ticket booking here.

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Feb
22
7:30 PM19:30

Tchaikovsky & Bridge Piano Trios, Chopin Rondo Brilliante

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CHOPIN Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C major, Op. 3
BRIDGE Phantasie Trio in C minor, H.79
  - interval -
TCHAIKOVSKY Trio in A minor, Op. 50

Ognisko Ensemble
Piano John Paul Ekins
Violin Michal Cwizewicz
Cello Ella Rundle

Tickets Member Price £15, Non-member Price £20, Students £8, Tickets include wine reception.
Box Office 020 7589 4670 Office@OgniskoPolskie.org.uk
Online ticket booking here.

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Jan
19
7:30 PM19:30

HARLEM QUARTET & OGNISKO ENSEMBLE

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The launch of Ognisko Ensemble's first concert series, sees a collaboration with a veteran ensemble: New York's Grammy-winning Harlem Quartet. The evening will feature the third of Beethoven's Razumovsky Quartets, two standard jazz numbers specifically arranged for the Harlems who cross effortlessly between classical and jazz. The second half opens with the evocative and dazzling but rarely heard Quartet for Four Violins by the prolific Polish composer and virtuoso Grażyna Bacewicz followed by one of the most exuberant masterpieces of all chamber music - the Octet by Felix Mendelssohn.

  • Beethoven: String Quartet No. 9, op. 59 no. 3
  • Gillespie: A Night In Tunisia
  • Strayhorn: Take the A Train
      interval
  • Bacewicz: Quartet for 4 violins (1949)
  • Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat major, op. 20
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New York-based HARLEM QUARTET, has been praised for its "panache" by The New York Times and hailed in the Cincinnati Enquirer for “bringing a new attitude to classical music, one that is fresh, bracing and intelligent.” Since its debut at Carnegie Hall in 2006, the quartet has thrilled audiences across the U.S.A., U.K., France, Belgium, Brazil, Panama, Canada, Venezuela, and South Africa.  The Harlem Quartet has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Itzhak Perlman; Carter Brey; Paquito D’Rivera; Misha Dichter; jazz legends Chick Corea and Gary Burton, Stanley Clarke, John Patitucci and the critically acclaimed Shanghai Quartet. 

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The OGNISKO ENSEMBLE, gave its first concert in 2015 at Ognisko Polskie in London where it is about to embark the first year of its residency. Founded and directed by violinist Michał Ćwiżewicz, they bring together leading chamber musicians in diverse programmes featuring string and piano ensembles, song and instrumental recitals, as well as collaborating with other artists and groups in the UK and abroad. The Ognisko Ensemble will be performing concerts at the Polish Hearth throughout the year.

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Jun
12
7:30 PM19:30

Karol Szymanowski - Lecture Recital

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Musicologist and tenor, James Savage-Hanford will explore Szymanowski's life, legacy and music.  This talk will be accompanied by chamber works for voice, violin and piano, spanning all three distinct periods of the composer's oeuvre, performed by soprano Marie-Anne Hall, violinist Michał Ćwiżewicz and pianist John Paul Ekins.

Tickets: http://ogniskopolskie.org.uk/.../lecture-series-june/ 
(select "June Lecture Series")

Lecture: 
The ways Karol Szymanowski’s music has been received among scholars and, more generally, among audiences in both Poland and Britain prompts numerous questions regarding social, cultural, historical, and ideological influence. An exploration of the concerns underpinning Szymanowski’s reception at home and abroad effectively allows us insight into two cultural contexts: the music serves as a lens through which certain place-determined aesthetic judgements may be brought into focus.
The talk takes its cue from the fact that, historically, Polish and Anglo-American scholars have been excited by contrasting aspects of Szymanowski’s oeuvre. Anglo-American scholars have concentrated largely on the exotic works of Szymanowski’s middle phase, and more generally on the role of exoticism throughout his oeuvre. Polish writers have focused instead on the works belonging to the composer’s final phase (which exhibit the use of indigenous folk material from the Polish Tatras), claiming furthermore that they represent the peak of Szymanowski’s creative endeavours.
This combined lecture and recital explores the variety of Szymanowski’s oeuvre, together with what it has meant – and why – to different people, in different places, as well as considering the place Szymanowski occupies for contemporary audiences today.

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May
5
7:00 PM19:00

Cwizewicz Brothers Recital - SOLD OUT

Bacewicz - Suite for two violins (1943)
Birchall - Delirium (2015 - Cwiżewicz Brothers commission)
Mozart - Duo No. 2 in B-flat major for violin & viola, K. 424
Prokofiev - Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, Op. 56
Bartok - Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98, BB 104
Ćwiżewicz - Tatra Melodies (2013)
Halvorsen - Passacaglia (after G.F. Handel)

Member Ticket Price: £ 10 including wine.
Non-member Ticket Price: £ 15 including wine.
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Feb
5
2:30 PM14:30

Chekhov's Seagull - Hemar Theatre

A new production of Chekhov’s The Seagull, the great classic tale of unrequited love and romantic conflicts, will be staged at Ognisko's 120 seat Hemar Theatre. Directed by experienced director Gigi Robarts, the production features an international cast of highly experienced, classically trained professional actors in a new traditional version of this great play.

7.30 pm Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th February.
2.30 pm Sunday 5th February
Saturday is now SOLD OUT.

Gigi Robarts - Director

Cast and Crew.

Hannah Keeley - Masha
Matthew James-Harrison - Simon
Paul Easom - Sorin
Adam Cunis - Treplieff
Jeanette Clarke - Polina
Keith Hill - Dorn
Lynne O'Sullivan - Arkadina
Niall Bishop - Trigorin

Cwizewicz Brothers - Music.
Musical scenes selected and performed by Filip and Michał Ćwiżewicz.  

Maja Lewis - Producer and Artistic Director.
Andrzej Blonski - Costume / Flyer.

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Jul
17
7:30 PM19:30

Gala Concert - celebrating 75 years of Ognisko Polskie

OGNISKO CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

Michał and Filip Ćwiżewicz (violins)
Matthias Wiesner (viola)
Richard Birchall (‘cello)
*JP Ekins (piano)
**Evgenia Startseva (piano)

Edward Elgar (1857 –1934)*
Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 82

Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991)*
Piano Trio, Op. 1, 1934, rev. 1945/85

Krzysztof Cwizewicz
Dance and Prayer in the Polish Style, “String Quartet for Ognisko, 2015”
World première.

Juliusz Zarebski (1854-85)**
Piano Quinet in G minor - Op 34

 

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