Friday, July 7, 2023, 7:00 PM

Subsidized by the Municipality of Kamień Pomorski

Artists:

Federica Iannella (Italy) – organ

Prenzlau Chamber Orchestra

Eugeniusz Kus – conductor

Piotr Kokosiński – oboe

Biographical notes:

Federica Iannella studied composition and organ playing at the conservatories in Pesaro and Vicenza, and graduated in musicology from the University of Bologna, receiving a diploma with the highest distinction. She has given concerts in Italy and other countries (Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Spain, Mexico, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, the USA). She has recorded many CDs, including world premieres of works by G. Morandi and G. Rossini. She has been a member of the jury of many competitions, and in 2010 she led a course in the interpretation of early Italian music in Mexico City. She is a docent at the L. Campiani Conservatory in Mantua. She is also involved in the restoration of historic organs in the Senigalia and Mantua regions, and since 2002 she has held the position of titular organist of the church of St. Maria delle Neve in Senigalia.

Piotr Kokosiński studied at the Academy of Music in Katowice, in the oboe class of prof. E. Mandera. In 1994 he became the first oboist of the Szczecin Philharmonic, and since 2018 he has been a soloist, playing the English horn. For many years he has been teaching (he was, among others, a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Poznań and the Academy of Art in Szczecin), and currently he teaches the oboe class at the State Primary School of Music in Szczecin. He has participated in all the album recordings of the Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra. For his activity he was awarded the Silver Cross of Merit (2004) and the Bronze Medal "Zasłużony Kulturze Gloria Artis" (2018).

Prenzlau Chamber Orchestra originates from the State District Orchestra founded in 1954. The seat of the currently existing chamber ensemble is Prenzlau. The orchestra's activities are characterized above all by its universality: in addition to regular concerts of classical music, entertainment and chamber performances in Prenzlau, the ensemble often performs in Germany and abroad, having performed in Denmark, Pakistan, the United States, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Poland and Italy. A significant tour of the ensemble was the performance in Switzerland in March 2012. The orchestra has participated in CD recordings of music by J.S. Bach, G.F. Händel, J.K. Vanhal, W.A. Mozart.

Eugeniusz Kus graduated from the Academy of Music in Poznań. He perfected his skills at the Academy of Music in Warsaw and at universities in The Hague, Rotterdam and Vienna. From 1969 to 2005 he was the artistic director and conductor of the University of Szczecin Choir, and from 1984 he led the professional Camerata Nova Vocal and Instrumental Ensemble. He has performed throughout Europe, China, Brazil and the USA. He has participated as a lecturer in conducting seminars and workshops (including in Bulgaria, Germany, South Korea and the USA). He has been a juror at international choral, vocal and composition competitions many times (including in China, Greece, Germany and Italy). In the years 1974–2007 he was the director of the Pomeranian Dukes' Castle in Szczecin. He is the program director of the International Organ and Chamber Music Festival in Kamień Pomorski, the artistic director of the International Organ Festival in Szczecin, and since 2018 the artistic director of the International Choral and Chamber Music Festival in Gorizia (Italy). As a professor of musical arts, he lectured at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. He has been awarded, among others, the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the silver and gold medal "For Merit to Culture Gloria Artis" and twice the Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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