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CAPELLA REGIA POLONA | Olga Pasiecznik

Concert on 28.08.2024 at 7:30 PM

Oblackie Centrum Edukacji i Kultury
ul. Elżbietańska 9/10, Gdańsk
Kościół św. Józefa

PROGRAMME

Georg Philipp Telemann – Tafelmusik, TWV 43:G2
Largo – Allegro – Largo – Vivace – Moderato – Grave – Vivace

Georg Philipp Telemann – Kantata Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt TWV 1:1584

  1. Recytatyw: Wer ist der, so von Edom kömmt
  2. Aria: O welch ein Opfer, welch en Segen
  3. Recytatyw: Die Sunde war zu groß
  4. Aria: So biet mit vergnügten Schritte

 

Johann Gottlieb Goldberg – Sonata c-moll a 4 DürrG 14

Largo – Allegro – Grave – Giga

Johann Sebastian Bach – Kantata Ich habe genug, BWV 82

  1. Aria: Ich habe genug
  2. Recytatyw: Ich habe genug
  3. Aria: Schlummert ein
  4. Recytatyw: Mein Gott!
  5. Aria: Ich freue mich

 

Johann Valentin Meder – Chaconne in C

Johann Jeremias Du Grain – Herr nun lässest du deiner Diener

  1. Aria: Herr nun lässest du deiner Diener
  2. Recytatyw: Wer Last und Hitze fühlet
  3. Aria: Denn meine Augen haben deinen Heiland gesehen
  4. Recytatyw: Ach ja, wer Jesum hat gesehn
  5. Aria: Brechet, ihr verfallene Augen

Patrons

CAPELLA REGIA POLONA

The Period Instruments Ensemble of the Polish Royal Opera Capella Regia Polona was created in September 2018. The ensemble’s repertoire consists of Polish and European music – oratorio and cantata works, operas, and instrumental music. The members of the ensemble are young and talented instrumentalists, who specialize in performing early music on period instruments or their copies. The musicians work with other best Polish and foreign ensembles. Krzysztof Garstka, the harpsichordist, is the musical manager of the ensemble.

Olga Pasiecznik – soprano

Michał Piotrowski – I violin
Joanna Gręziak – II violin
Mark Vanyan – viola
Tomasz Frycz – cello
Grzegorz Zimak – double bass
Zofia Piasecka – transverse flute
Agnieszka Mazur – Zborowska – oboe
Filip Zieliński – theorbo
Krzysztof Garstka – harpsichord / organ / conductor

Krzysztof Garstka

Harpsichordist and teacher. By passion and profession associated primarily with early opera and the 17th and 18th-century vocal and instrumental music. Ever since his student days, he has been fascinated with opera and developed his interest in vocal music thanks to the cooperation with leading Polish vocalists – Olga Pasiecznik, Anna Radziejewska, Jadwiga Rappé and Artur Stefanowicz. He took his first steps in conducting ensembles with the period instruments orchestra, Gradus ad Parnassum, which he established and with whom he staged many opera productions, including: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona , Claudio Monteverdi’s Il Coronazione di Poppea and George Frideric Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo. As a founding member of Dramma per Musica association, he takes active part in annual editions of the Festival of Baroque Operas in Warsaw.

He obtained the doctoral degree from the Chopin University of Music in 2018, and has been working there as lecturer at the Department of Organ and Harpsichord. Under the tutelage of Alina Ratkowska and Leszek Kędracki, he had also graduated in organ. He obtained a post-graduate degree with Andrei Marcon at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Switzerland) and is also a grant holder of Erasmus-Socrates programme, under which he completed a six-month study with Eva Maria Polerus and Michael Hell at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Graz (Austria). He completed master courses run by Jesper Christensen, Marieke Spaans and Nicholas Parle.

He has often received harpsichord competition awards, including Ogólnopolski Akademicki Konkurs Klawesynowy in Poznań (2009, 1st place), Prazskie Jaro, (2017, distinction), and 27. Paola Bernardi International Harpsichord Competition in Bologna (2017, 3rd place).

In 2018, he took up the position of music director of the Period Instruments Ensemble of the Polish Royal Opera Capella Regia Polona. Together, they gave a series of opera performances (George Frideric Handel’s Rodelinda , Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo , Alessandro Scarlatti’s Scene Buffe, and Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas) and a number of cantata, oratorio and instrumental concerts.

Olga Pasiecznik

Soprano. After graduating from the Kyiv Conservatory she continued her musical education on a post-graduate course at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw.

In 1992, she made her debut on the stage of the Warsaw Chamber Opera, and four years later at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées as Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Olga Pasiecznik has performed in operas on the most famous and prestigious stages of the world. She’s appeared in over forty roles, in operas by Monteverdi, Gluck, Handel, Mozart, Weber, Bizet, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, and contemporary composers. Her performance won her public and critical acclaim.

She also appears in chamber repertoire, oratorios, and symphonic works in famous concert halls in almost every European country, USA, Canada, China, Japan, and Australia. Her sister, pianist Natalia Pasiecznik, accompanies Olga during her numerous solo recitals.

She has frequently performed with the most acclaimed orchestras from Poland and all over the world, e.g. the Boston Symphony Orchestra (USA), the Belgian National Symphonic Orchestra, the Orquestra Nacional de España and Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE (Spain), the English Concert, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de France, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble (France), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Freiburger Barockorchester, the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. She’s worked with many esteemed conductors, such as I. Bolton, F. Brüggen, J.-C. Casadesus, M. Creed, Ch. Dutoit, R. Jacobs, R. Goodman, Ch. Hogwood, H. Holliger, Ph. Herreweghe, J. Kaspszyk, K. Kord, J. Maksymiuk, J.-C. Malgoire, M. Minkowski, K. Ono, A. Parrott, K. Penderecki, T. Pinnock, M. Viotti, A. Wit, M. Zanetti.

Her phonographic output includes over 50 CDs and DVDs, recorded for the CD Accord, Dabringhaus und Grimm, Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, Opus 111, and other publishing companies.

Olga Pasiecznik is a laureate of international singing competitions: in s’Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, the Mirjam Helin Singing Competition in Helsinki, and the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels. The artist has also won many awards in Poland: the Polityka Passport Award (1997), the Fryderyk award for the best solo recording (1997, 2004), the Orpheus award at the Warsaw Autumn festival (1999), the Gold Cross of Merit (2001), and the A. Hiolski award for the best female opera role (2004). In 2005 and 2012 she was nominated by the international opera magazine “Opernwelt” for the title of “The Best Female Singer of the Year”. In 2011, she received the annual Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, and in 2012 she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

She is a soloist at the Polish Royal Opera.