New piece available for download below
Piotr Szewczyk's First Coast Groove for Violin
performed by Piotr Szewczyk
www.verynewmusic.com/mp3/Szewczyk-FirstCoastGroove.mp3
An article about Piotr and Violin Futura in Jakcksonville Daily Record:
www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=49965
PERFORMANCES:
Videos from performances available at: www.youtube.com/violinfutura
New performances for the 2008-09 season (dates TBA)
FLAGLER COLLEGE, St. Augustine, FL
University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
Body and Soul Series, a concert at Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville
Concert tour in Germany (Munich, Nuernberg, Berlin) October 2008
Aspen Music Festival 2009
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RECENT PAST PERFORMANCES:
Music for a Sunday Morning - January 2008, Sundays, 10:45 am
Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville
free and open to the public
Sunday, January 13, 10:45 am
Piotr Szewczyk, violinist/composer Violin Futura (selections) www.VeryNewMusic.com
Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville 7405 Arlington Expressway * 904-725-8133 Jacksonville, FL 32111 Rev. Dr. John L. Young, minister Henson Markham, music director www.uujax.org
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MUSIC @ MAIN
Jacksonville Public Library
Who: Piotr Szewczyk presents Violin Futura
What: Music @ Main Free Concert
When: Tuesday, February 5, 2008, at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Main Library (303 N. Laura St.), in the Hicks Auditorium
http://jaxpubliclibrary.org/progs/main/violinfutura_2008.html
Join us on Tuesday, February 5, 2008, at 6:30 p.m. in the Main Library's Hicks Auditorium for Violin Futura, an hour-long program of 16 exciting and innovative solo violin pieces by composers from around the world written especially for Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra violinist and award-winning composer Piotr Szewczyk. Selections from the program will be repeated in a luncheon recital on Thursday, April 10, 2008, at 12:15 p.m. in the Library Conference Center's Multipurpose Room, to which listeners are invited to bring bag lunches. Library concerts are free and open to the public, and reservations are not required.
PARKING INFORMATION: Validation for free evening parking is available to Library concertgoers and customers who use the public parking garage at 33 W. Duval Street (at the corner of Main Street). Take garage tickets to the Popular Services desk in the Main Library for validation. Free on-street parking is available on evenings and weekends. For more information about parking at the Main Library and links to maps and driving directions, please visit http://www.jaxpubliclibrary.org/lib/parking.html
For more information: Call (904) 630-2665, or e-mail inform@coj.net
Jacksonville Public Library. Start Here. Go Anywhere. http://jaxpubliclibrary.org
SANTA FE NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL
Wednesday, February 20, 7:00pm, Scottish Rite Center — "Violin Futura" A thrilling program of all-recent commissions by 15 leading young composers, with young guest artist Piotr Szewczyk. Tickets: $20
http://events.sfnm.com
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University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Monday, March 31, 8:00pm, Werner Recital Hall
Violin Futura recital
Piotr Szewczyk - violin
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MUSIC @ MAIN Jacksonville Main Library
Who: Piotr Szewczyk presents Violin Futura
What: Music @ Main Free Concert
When: Thursday, April 10, 2008, at 12:15 p.m.
Where: Main Library (303 N. Laura St.), in the Hicks Auditorium
http://jaxpubliclibrary.org/progs/main/violinfutura_2008.html
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June 7, 2007, 5:00pm
Spoleto Festival USA
Music in Time Concert
Charleston, South Carolina,
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Review from the performance:
" ... the program was a triumph for Szewczyk, who, undaunted by some very difficult music, showed stellar technique, consistently ringing tone, and a thorough commitment to the core and spirit of each piece.
To single out just a few of them, Carson Cooman's "The Doors in the Sky" was passionate and attractive, with lots of double and triple stops.
Hiro Morozumi's "Real Phone Key" featured blues, bluegrass, and foot-tapping.
John Kennedy's lyric and virtuosic "FP (For Piotr)" made playful use of pizzicato and artificial harmonics with Kennedy's haracteristic sense of humor.
Mason Bates' "Blue Berceuse" is a brief, lyrical charmer.
Patrick Castillo's "Cirque," had a fragmented, Webernian quality with expressives trills and tremolos.
Moritz Eggert's protean "Idyl" included whistling and the reading of headlines to the accompaniment of a plucked low G, then ended with Szewczyk actually plunging his bow through the sheet music.
As is his prerogative, Szewczyk started and ended with pieces of his own. I especially liked the first one, a bright, flashy, angular work with overtones of Bartok and Shostakovich. "
Joshua Rosenblum
Charleston Post and Courier
June 10, 2007
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May 7, 2007
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Guest Artist Recital Monday, May 7, 2007 7:30 p.m.,
Phillips Recital Hall Haas Fine Arts Center UW-Eau Claire Violin Master Class Monday, May 7, 2007 4:30 p.m., Phillips Recital Hall
Composition Master Class Tuesday, May 8, 2007 5:00 p.m., Phillips Recital Hall
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MONDAY, FEB 12, 2007, 7pm
New World Symphony Forum Concert
541 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach
VIOLIN FUTURA Part I
Mister Blister by Lawrence Dillon, fp (For Piotr) by John Kennedy, The Door in the Sky by Carson Cooman, Zubrowka by Marc Mellits, Homecoming by Nathan Williamson, Real Phone Key by Hiro Morozumi and Piotr Szewczyk’s Cadenza I.
to get FREE ticket go to www.NewWorldTickets.com
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