The July 13th concert will feature performances by:
Zbigniew Gach – organ
Mieczysław Gach – French horn
Piotr Gach – cello
Zbigniew Gach
Organist, chamber musician, and cultural manager. Graduate of the organ master class of Professor Andrzej Chorosiński at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics. He performs as a soloist and chamber musician in Poland and abroad (including Italy, Germany and the Czech Republic), performing a wide repertoire ranging from early music to contemporary compositions. For years he has been actively involved in the musical life of Pomerania as a performer, organiser of artistic events, and promoter of organ music. Since 2018, he has worked as the director of Centrum Kultury Gminy Redzikowo, and since 2019 he has been the artistic director of Festiwal Muzyki Organowej i Kameralnej in Ustka. Since 2020, he has also conducted Mariackie Koncerty Organowe in Darłowo and Festiwal Muzyki Organowej i Kameralnej in Łeba.
Mieczysław Gach
French horn player, chamber musician, and pedagogue, graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Music in the class of Edwin Golnik. From 1978 to 2006 an academic at the Institute of Music of the Pomeranian University in Słupsk, continuously since 1978 a French horn player in Polska Filharmonia Sinfonia Baltica. He has performed at home and abroad, including at the famous Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, with the prominent accordionist Richard Galliano, and with the world-famous ballet from St. Petersburg, performing ‘Swan Lake’ and ‘The Nutcracker.’ The artist has many recordings to his credit (10 albums), as well as recordings for the Polish Radio and Television. Mieczysław Gach’s great passion is working with disabled people; as a music therapist, he has led the ‘Turkus’ ensemble at the Środowiskowy Dom Samopomocy in Słupsk.
Piotr Gach
Cellist, chamber musician, composer and arranger, graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London in the Louise Hopkins class and the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Laureate of many competitions in Poland, including 3rd prize at Ogólnopolski Konkurs Wiolonczelowy and 1st prize at Konkurs Muzyki Kameralnej in Wrocław. Concertmaster of the cello group of Cavatina Philharmonic Orchestra, cellist of Radomska Orkiestra Kameralna, and leader of the cello group in Bielska Orkiestra Kameralna. Works with Sinfonietta Cracovia, AUKSO, Polska Filharmonia Kameralna in Sopot, Filharmonia Gorzowska, Polska Filharmonia Bałtycka and Filharmonia Krakowska. Leader of the EtnosEnsemble group and the AcCello Duo duo, which has toured most of Europe and in Qatar, Azerbaijan and Kenya.
Concert program:
Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817–1869) – Marche Militaire, op. 38
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Jesus bleibet meine Freude, BWV 147
Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 541
Symphony from the Cantata Ich steh’ mit einem Fuß im Grabe, BWV 156
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847) – Allegro in D minor, MWV W 33
Bernhard Müller (1842–1920) – Gebet, op. 65: Adagio–Religioso
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) – Herzlich tut mich verlangen, op. 122
Michał Kleofas Ogiński (1765–1833) – Polonaise Pożegnanie ojczyzny
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759) –Hallelujah from the Oratorio Messiah (transcr. T. Dubois)