Polish Music Day
We invite everyone to the Polish Music Festival on Sunday, 29 September 2019 at Deakin Edge, Federation Square. There are 3 separate music events from classical music to different polish music performed by aspiring young musicians to a concert of 8 leading jazz Australian musicians performing film and jazz music of legendary Krzysztof Komeda. This year UNESCO announced a year of Komeda on his 50 anniversary of his death.
1pm – 2.15pm Chopin Piano Recital
Tickets $25
The Spirit of Poland – Alan Kogosowski plays Chopin
Alan Kogosowski is an Australian pianist with remarkable technical and musical abilities. He brings music to audiences in an exciting way, that makes people feel involved and happy to be part of this unique expression of the human spirit. He is a distinguished Chopinist and has made it his mission to promote the works of the great master
3.00 – 5.25pm 7th Ewa Malewicz Music Competition – Final Auditions
Free Event
The competition is designed for Australian youth up to the age of 18 years. Entrants will be placed into age categories. The competition will consist of the instrumental categories of piano, strings, and vocal. The entire repertoire will be exclusively dedicated to music by Polish composers, from the Chopin period to contemporary composers.
6pm – 7.30pm TRIBUTE TO KOMEDA – film music and jazz concert
A unique tribute to Krzysztof Komeda, Poland’s most influential film and jazz composer, curated and performed by “Adam Simmons Creative Music Ensemble” with special guest pianist Tony Gould. The performance will include original live video projection by Jean Poole in response to the music.
Adam Simmons Creative Music Ensemble:
Adam Simmons – tenor/soprano sax,
Cara Taber – alto sax
Gideon Brazil – tenor sax,
flute Gavin Cornish – trumpet
Nat Grant – vibraphone
Howard Cairns – double bass
Niko Schauble – drums
Special guests:
Tony Gould – piano
Deborah Kayser – voice
Jean Poole – live visuals
TONY GOULD
Passing through many periods of music in the last 50 years, Tony Gould has developed his own distinctive style, which insists on the primacy of melodic material, the complex and glorious world of harmony and of playing things differently each and every time.
He is an influential teacher, though not always in the most traditional sense, preferring to lead by example rather than to stand and lecture and as such has inspired many students who have then gone on to their own influential paths. He is himself influenced by many musicians past and present and other creative beings such as Bach, Rosalie Gascoigne, Stravinsky, Robert Hughes, Mahler and Jackson Pollock.
ADAM SIMMONS
Adam Simmons is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and educator, involved across many different scenes within Melbourne and beyond, performing jazz, punk, new music, traditional Japanese honkyo-ku, funk and free noise/improv.
He regularly performs internationally, working with artists from USA, Japan, Poland, France, Germany, UK, Italy, Netherlands, Greece and New Caledonia. His ensembles include Origami and the renowned Adam Simmons Creative Music Ensemble.
Adam has curated events including Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues, Festival of Slow Music, 100:25:1 and The Usefulness of Art. Adam teaches shakuhachi at the University of Melbourne. Adam is endorsed by Forestone Japan (saxophones), Selmer (bass clarinet) and Temby Australia (flutes).
ADAM SIMMONS CREATIVE MUSIC ENSEMBLE
Adam Simmons Creative Music Ensemble first performed in 2004 at the Sydney Opera House for the Freedman Awards (which resulted in a Special Award from the Freedman Foundation for Adam). Since then the group has performed at Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival, recorded by ABC FM at the Half Bent Music Festival, Festival Of Slow Music, Wentworth Arts Festival and for Adam’s two-year concert series, “The Usefulness of Art” which received rave reviews.
The aim is to bring together musicians of diverse backgrounds to make music that is meaningful and communicative regardless of genre.