May 13, 2002
Contact: John Michel (509-963-1216/fax 509-963-1239/e-mail: michelj@cwu.edu)
ELLENSBURG, Wash. - Polish pianist Zofia Antes will perform solo works of Mozart, Chopin and Brahms and a Brahms cello sonata with professor John Michel on Monday, May 13, at 8 p.m. in Hertz Recital Hall on Central Washington University’s Ellensburg campus. Admission is free and a reception will follow.
Antes, who lives in Warsaw, began piano lessons at the age of 7 at the Primary School of Music in Southern Poland. In 1992, she graduated from the State Music Gimnasium in Bielsko-Biala as the award for exceptional results winner.
From 1992 to 1998 she studied at the renowned K. Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice under the supervision of well-known Polish pianist Pawel Skrzypek. She also studied piano under professor Czeslaw Stanczyk and chamber music with professor Maria Kulakowska. On her graduation, she received a diploma with special distinction and the scholarship of the Polish Ministry of Culture.
Antes participated in many piano competitions. Three times she was the winner of the prestigious All-Polish Frederic Chopin Art Scholarship Piano Competition. As a result, she is regularly invited by the Frederic Chopin Society to play recitals around the country and in Chopin’s birthplace, Zelazowa Wola. She has started to perform regularly with many philharmonic orchestras in Poland, and with the “Akademos” String Quartet. In 2000, she began a full-time teaching position at the Frederic Chopin School of Music in Warsaw.
CWU music professor John Michel, who will play the second half of the program with Antes, enjoys a professional career as an accomplished soloist, chamber musician and teacher.
In July of last year, he was one of seven guest artists to participate in the First Kobe International Cello Festival in Japan. At the World Cello Congress III, he gave the world premiere of Maria Newman’s Solo Sonata “Othmar.”
Michel is a member of the Kairos String Quartet, the resident ensemble of CWU and the Icicle Creek Music Center. For the past seven years the Kairos Quartet has been regularly performing throughout the Northwest.
Michel is founder and director of the Internet Cello Society (cello.org), a cyber-community of cellists, that shares the knowledge and joy of cello playing with enthusiasts from around the globe. He received the Outstanding College String Teacher Award from the Washington chapter of the American String Teacher Association several years ago.
PROGRAM:
- Mozart - Fantasie in C minor K. 475
- Chopin - Nocturne in G major op.37 #2
- Chopin - Polonaise in C minor op.40 #2
- Brahms - Klavierstucke op.118:
- Intermezzo in A minor #1
- Intermezzo in A major #2
- Brahms - Rhapsody in G Minor op.79
Short Intermission
- Brahms - Sonata for Cello and Piano in E minor
- Allegro non troppo
- Allegretto quasi Menuetto
- Allegro
