Embassy of Poland presents the Polish pianist, Mateusz Kolakowski
Date: November 16, 2010
Venue: Alliance Française auditorium
Time: 7pm
Entrance: Free
Early this year, Poland launched the Chopin Year to mark the 200th anniversary of the celebrated composer Frederic Chopin, with events in Poland and abroad.
In May, on the occasion of the European Film Festival, the Embassy of Poland presented a piano recital by the Polish pianist, Mariusz Drope. To conclude the Chopin Year, the Polish Embassy has invited the young pianist, Mateusz Kolakowski, a laureate of ‘Virtuosi per music di pianoforte’ in the Czech Republic and a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in the US. He is also winner of the 2002 ‘Jazz Fryderyk’ prize, awarded by the Polish Ministry of Culture and the ‘Most Promising Pianist’ at the Martial Solal Competition in Paris.
He is currently studying classical piano at the Music Academy of Katowice in Poland.
Mateusz Kolakowski’s Discography
Triology-‘Presence’-Livingroom Records (USA,2000)
’14th Spring’-Jazz Forum Records (2003)
‘ad LiBiTuM-1st Warsaw Jazz Concert’ (2007)
Mateusz Kolakowski & Dave Liebman ‘Live at Jazz Standard’ (Fenommedia 2009)