The Komorniki Festival of Organ and Chamber Music ( pl, Ogólnopolski Festiwal Muzyki Organowej i Kameralnej - Komorniki) is a summer series of

concert A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, choir, or band. Concerts are held in a wide variety a ...

s held annually in

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. The

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was founded by

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-based

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conductor and

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Krzysztof Czerwiński, who also serves as its

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. The festival features

choral A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which ...

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and

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...

concerts among its events held in local churches including

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's Church,

, St Florian's Church, Wiry, St Faustyna's Church, Plewiska and St Hedwig of Silesia Church,

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2015 Edition

Ensembles

* Tubicinatores Gedanenses

Soloists

* Łukasz Kuropaczewski –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

* Maciej Frąckiewicz –

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

* Ryszard Żołędziewski –

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...

* Taras Riznyak -

tenor A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The lo ...

Organists

* Piotr Rojek * Gedymin Grubba * Błażej Musiałczyk * Krzysztof Czerwiński

2014 Edition

Ensembles

* Hevelius Brass

Soloists

* Rafał Kobylinski –

* Kacper Chabrowski –

* Ania Karpowicz –

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

Organists

* Marek Stefanski * Ewa Sawoszczuk * Michal Markuszewski * Krzysztof Czerwiński

2013 Edition

Ensembles

* The Cracow Brass Quintet

Soloists

* Pawel Hulisz –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

* Mariusz Monczak –

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

* Anna Lecka –

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

Organists

* Paul Rosoman * Bogdan Narloch * Marcin Lecki * Krzysztof Czerwiński

2012 Edition

Ensembles

* Trio Con Brio * The Cracow Trombone Quartet

Soloists

* Michał Stanikowski –

* Jakub Drygas –

clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

* Ian Maksin –

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

Organists

* Jerzy Kukla * Gedymin Grubba * Krzysztof Czerwiński

2011 Edition

Ensembles

* The Sydney Consort

Soloists

* Alina Urbanczyk-Mroz –

* Anna Adamiak –

mezzo-soprano A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (; ; meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A below middle C ...

* Adam Musialski –

Organists

* Adam Klarecki * Robert Grudzien * Marek Kudlicki * Krzysztof Czerwiński

2010 Edition

Ensembles

* Gdanski Kwartet Kontrabasowy * Capella Bydgostiensis

Soloists

* Jolanta Sosnowska – pila sopranowa * Hannah Berensen –

Organists

* Marietta Kruzel-Sosnowska * Jan Bartlomiej Bokszczanin * Christopher Berensen * Krzysztof Czerwiński

2009 Edition

Ensembles

* Affabre Concinui * Parnassos

Soloists

* Janusz Cieplinski –

* Jolanta Solowiej –

Organists

* Henryk Gwardak * Jaroslaw Ciecierski * Krzysztof Czerwiński * Adam Klareck

2008 Edition

Ensembles

* Baltycki Kwintet Dety * Poznań Brass

Soloists

* Jacek Greszta - bass * Karol Lipinski-Branka -

Organists

* Fatima Branka * Krzysztof Czerwiński * Waldemar Krawiec * Piotr Rojek

2007 Edition

Ensembles

* Ars Antiqua * Polish Baroque Orchestra * Pueri Cantores Tarnovienses

Soloists

* Krzysztof Meisinger -

* Przemyslaw Wawrzyniak -

bagpipes Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, No ...

Organists

* Krzysztof Czerwiński * Grzegorz Piekarz * Ewa Polska * Jozef Serafin

2006 Edition

Ensembles

* Polish Baroque Orchestra * Poznań Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys

Soloists

* Ewa Murawska -

* Anita Rywalska-Sosnowska -

Organists

* Krzysztof Czerwiński * Jakub Garbacz * Gedymin Grubba * Krzysztof Lesniewicz

CD recording

CD recording of the Festival

External links

Festival website

Komorniki - official website
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