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British Polish Chamber of Commerce,
as a partner in organizing
The Arthur Rubinstein International Music Festival in Łódź,
invites you to a huge musical event which takes place on
10–18 X 2008 in the Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Hall.
The world’s greatest pianists will be playing in homage to Arthur Rubinstein, in the city of his birth, under the honorary patronage of President of Republic of Poland Lech Kaczyński and his wife, Maria Kaczyńska.
Patronage: Włodzimierz Fisiak, Łódź Voivodship Marshall, Marshall Office in Łódź; Jerzy Kropiwnicki, President, The City of Łódź Office
Festival Director – Wojciech Grochowalski
Organizer: The Arthur Rubinstein International Music Foundation in Łódź
President of the Board – Anna Wesołowska-Firlej
Co-organizers: the Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Hall
You can buy tickets at Lodz Philharmonic:
phone number 0-42 664 79 79
or you can order them at the Arthur Rubinstein International Music Foundation:
phone number 0-42/632 79 39 (form 8 am till 4 pm),
fax 0-42 632 94 58 or
e-mail:
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More information you can find at www.arturrubinstein.pl
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Main concerts and festivals:
10 X 2008 (Friday) 7.00pm
- opening ceremony and inaugural concert. The Arthur Rubinstein Lodz Philharmonic Concert Hall, Lodz Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Raiskin
- soloist: Alexander Gavrylyuk – piano (Messiaen, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky)
11 X 2008 (Saturday) 4.00pm, Lodz Philharmonic Chamber Hall
- half-recital by Hubert Rutkowski, followed by a talk on the pianist and piano teacher Theodore Leschetizky
- opening of an exhibition about T. Leschetizky in the foyer of Lodz Philharmonic
12 X 2008 (Sunday) 6.00pm, Lodz Philharmonic Concert Hall
- piano recital by Roman Rabinovich, prize-winner of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, Tel Aviv 2008.(Beethoven, Wiesenberg, Ravel, Scarlatti)
13 X 2008 (Monday) 3.00pm, Museum of History of Lodz, Mirror Hall, concert of chamber music:
- Prima Vista string quartet, Wojciech Waleczek – piano (Schumann),
- Prima Vista string quartet, Denis Zhdanov – piano (Mozart)
13 X 2008 (Monday) 7.00pm, Lodz Philharmonic Concert Hall
- Alexander Korsantia, piano recital (Haydn, Chopin, Stravinsky/Agosti, Mussorgsky)
14 X 2008 (Tuesday) 5.00pm, Lodz Philharmonic Concert Hall
- Emanuel Ax, piano recital (Schubert, Liszt)
15 X 2008 (Wednesday) 7.00pm, Lodz Philharmonic Concert Hall a performance by young pianists, first prize-winners of the ‘Arthur Rubinstein in Memoriam’ International Competition for Young Pianists in Bydgoszcz
- Joanna Marcinkowska (Chopin, Czajkowski/Pletnev)
- Yulianna Avdeeva (Mozart, Kreisler/Rachmaninov, Liszt)
- Denis Zhdanov (Prokofiev, Messiaen)
16 X 2008 (Thursday) 11.00am-7.00pm, Charlie Cinema
- screening of documentary films about Arthur Rubinstein
17 X 2008 (Friday) 7.00pm, Lodz Philharmonic Concert Hall
- Kirill Gerstein, piano recital (Chopin, Busoni, Schumann, Tchaikovsky/Feinberg)
18 X 2008 (Saturday) 7.00pm, Lodz Philharmonic Concert Hall
- closing symphonic concert, with the participation of the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice) conducted by Jerzy Salwarowski
soloist: Alexander Korsantia – piano (Moniuszko, Ravel, Tchaikovsky)
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