From the Artistic Director
Message from Lee Kum-Sing, Artistic Director
We are very proud to welcome you to the 10th Anniversary Season of the Vancouver Chopin Society recital series. We have planned an exciting season featuring interesting musical works by various composers, with of course, particular emphasis on Chopin’s music. Amongst works to be performed are Chopin’s Mazurkas, Waltzes, 24 Preludes and Etudes, Godowsky’s transcriptions of Chopin’s Etudes and the Symanowski Variations.
We will kick off this special year with the Vancouver debut of Polish pianist Wojciech Switala, who will be presenting the Polish National Edition of Chopin’s works. The President of the National Edition Foundation (Warsaw) will give a short pre-concert talk on the Edition. The next concerts will feature Canadian pianist Anton Kuerti and Russian pianist Boris Berezovsky.
The final concert will be held on May 2nd, 2008 at the Chan Center and will feature the 2005 winner of the Warsaw International Chopin Competition, R.B. making his North American debut.
Following his recital, there will be a reception to celebrate our 10th Anniversary. We hope all of you can join us at this reception.
With the exception of our last concert, all of the concerts for the 2007-2008 season will be held at the Magee Auditorium.
We hope you enjoy our special season.
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Wojciech Switala
Anton Kuerti
Amir Katz
Rafal Blechacz