The University

CULTURE
An Autumn
of Musical Inspiration
Mikołaj Szczęsny, PhD
assistant professor
at the Department of Music
(Chair of Arts Education)
Henryk Tritt –
concertmaster and soloist
of the “Academia” Chamber
Orchestra
Photo: Magdalena
Seredyńska
International Music Festival in Trzęsacz
The Fifth Jubilee International Music
Festival in Trzęsacz launched a season of
performances by University of Szczecin
faculty and student musicians, along with
a wide array of talent from around the
country and around the world.
Music fans eager to get an early start on the
region’s chamber and chorale concert calendar
needed only to journey to the seaside resort of
Trzęsacz, where the fifth edition of the international
Music Festival Sacrum Non Profanum took
place during the week of 8-15 August, 2009.
held each year at the austere Church of Divine
Mercy, the event has found a permanent place
in the West Pomeranian concert landscape and
in 2008 was awarded a ‘Gold Sextant’. Though
the international festival of chamber and chorale
music is one of Poland’s youngest, its roots date
to a twelve-year-old series of concerts called
Through Music to a World of Values and initiated
by Szczecin University music director Prof. Bohdan
Boguszewski.
Polish-born organist Karol Gołębiowski
opened the 2009 event along with helsinki-based
Ukranian pianist Wiaczesław Nowikow, who interpreted
the compositions of Frédéric Chopin
in a nod to Poland’s year-long Chopin Year 2010
concert series. in addition to a repertory of pipe
organ music, the 2009 festival offered the opportunity
to hear new music, composed by Dariusz
Przybylski’s Schübler Choräle (first performance),
thanks to the participation of engagement of the
European Penderecki Centre for Music, which
presents the newest works of young Polish composers.
This part of the Festival program turned
out to be most interesting and valuable.
Accordion also featured in the series, with
Paweł Kos-Nowicki conducting the debut performance
of Chordalians & Chordaliens for accordion
and orchestra. After rendering the complicated
solo from Per aspera… and The Switching
Faces for string orchestra, accordion virtuoso
Michał Moc recalled composer henryk Czyż’s
message that …the devil is not so black as he is
painted, after which he played Hommage a Piazzola
in tribute to bandoneonist and master of
nuevo tango Astor Piazzola.
A premiere of the late composer Marek
Jasiński’s Domine Deus Salutis Meae for a capella
Agata Szymczewska
– 1 st prize winner and
laureate of the TVP
Kultura Audience Award
(XIII International Henryk
Wieniawski Violin
Competition in Poznań) –
during the opening concert
Photo: Magdalena
Seredyńska
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mixed choir served as a centerpiece of the series.
Performed by Chreszczatyk, a professional
mixed choir from Kiev conducted by Pavlo Struts,