Warsaw Solists CONCERTO AVENNA

• Art
• • Sym­phony Orches­tra of the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music
  • Mixed Choir of the Fry­deryk Chopin Uni­ver­sity of Music
  • Inter-College Baroque Orchestra
  • Chopin Acad­e­mia Orchestra
  • The FCUM Brass and Wood­wind Band
  • The FCUM Big-Band
  • War­saw Boys’ and Men’s Choir at the FCUM in Warsaw
  • Chopin Vocal Consort
  • War­saw Soloists Con­certo Avenna
  • Wilanów Quar­tet

Artis­tic Direc­tor — Pro­fes­sor Andrzej Mysiński

The ensem­ble was founded in 1985 on the ini­tia­tive of a harp­si­chordist Władysław Kłosiewicz and bassist Andrzej Mysiński. It con­sists of the grad­u­ates and lec­tur­ers of the Warsaw’s music uni­ver­sity, as well as the pre­vi­ous mem­bers of the Pol­ish Cham­ber Orches­tra of Jerzy Maksymiuk. The orches­tra spe­cial­izes in inter­pret­ing the Baroque music, pre­serv­ing its typ­i­cal tech­ni­cal means but using con­tem­po­rary instru­ments, which gives sur­pris­ing artis­tic effect, approved and admired by the lis­ten­ers on the one hand, and on the other hand, regarded con­tro­ver­sial to say the least. Apart from the Baroque reper­toire the ensem­ble also per­forms the works writ­ten spe­cially for it by the Pol­ish con­tem­po­rary com­posers. The orches­tra is famous in Poland and world­wide from numer­ous radio, tele­vi­sion and album record­ings (38 CD’s) and, first of all, from the con­certs, which brought them many enthu­si­as­tic reviews. They per­ma­nently coop­er­ate with out­stand­ing Pol­ish and for­eign soloists, such as: E. Cho­j­nacka, J. Rappé, O. Pasiecznik, E. Małas-Godlewska, W. Kłosiewicz, M. Toporowski, T. Strahl, A. Kruszewski, K. A. Kulka, K. Jakow­icz, P. Pławner, K. Danc­zowska, T. Wojnow­icz, I. Monighetti, A. Dal­ton, E. Kirkby, M. Chance, P. Ess­wood and M. Petri. In 1990 the orches­tra was hon­oured with the award of the War­saw Voivod for its out­stand­ing achieve­ments in per­for­mances and pro­mo­tion of Baroque music, and in 2006 the Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and National Her­itage awarded it with the title “Zasłużony dla Kul­tury Pol­skiej” (Con­tri­bu­tions to Pol­ish Cul­ture). CONCERTO AVENNA is spon­sored by the Min­istry of Cul­ture and National Her­itage and by the Cap­i­tal City of War­saw Munic­i­pal Office.