Concert organized in cooperation with the Castle Opera in Szczecin
Artists:
Andrzej Chorosiński – organ
Tetiana Bilczak – soprano Ruslan Bilczak – tenor Olga Bilas – organ Choir and Orchestra of the Castle Opera in Szczecin Małgorzata Bornowska – conductor
In the program:
Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck (1770–1846)
Flute Concerto for Organ in F major, Op. 55
Allegro
Recitativo
Rondo
Artist A. Chorosiński
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Fantasy in F minor KV 608
Artist A. Chorosiński
Dan Forrest (1978)
Requiem for the Living
Introit – Kyrie
Vanitas vanitatum
Agnus Dei
Sanctus
Lux Aeterna
Artist T. Bilczak R. Bilczak O. Bilas Choir, Orchestra M. Bornowska
Biographical notes:
Andrzej Chorosiński graduated with distinction from the Academy of Music in Warszawa in 1972. He has given concerts in almost all European countries, as well as in Israel, the USA, Canada, South Korea, Japan and Australia. In the years 1987–1993 he was vice-rector, and in the years 1993–1999 he held the title of rector of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warszawa. He is a professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warszawa. In the years 1993–2000 he was a member of AECAM – the Conference of Rectors of 135 European Music Universities. He is a consultant and author of projects in the field of organ construction in Poland, Germany, Canada and Japan. In 2008 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Keymung University in South Korea. On April 27, 2014, he participated in the Vatican together with the organist of the St. Peter's Basilica. Peter in the musical setting of the canonization of Popes John XXIII and Jan PawełII.
Tetiana Bilczak is a graduate of the Ivan Ohiyenko National University in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Faculty of Musical Art and Artistic Culture. In 2015–2017, a soloist of the Ternopil Philharmonic (Ukraine). Since 2021, she has been associated with the Szczecin Castle Opera as a soloist of the choir.
Ruslan Bilchak is a graduate of the Ivan Ohiyenko National University in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Faculty of Musical Art and Artistic Culture. In 2013–2017, a soloist of the Ternopil Philharmonic (Ukraine). Since 2021, she has been associated with the Szczecin Castle Opera as a soloist of the choir.
Małgorzata Bornowska graduated from the Faculty of Music Education at the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warszawa, as well as Postgraduate Studies in Choirmastering and Voice Production at the F. Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. Since 2005, she has been a choirmaster at the Castle Opera in Szczecin, and a conductor since 2013. Since 2013, she has been working as a lecturer at the Faculty of Music Education at the Academy of Art in Szczecin (since 2019 as an AS professor). She has been the musical director of performances such as Farfurka królowej Bony, O krasnoludkach i sierotce Marysi, and the show Dla Niepodległej. Since 2017, she has been conducting the Amateur Choir at the Castle Opera.