Sonatina-Sonata Festival
The public is invited to enjoy an evening of piano music when Northwest’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts hosts its second annual Sonatina-Sonata Festival. The festival includes an Honors Recital – featuring students in grades five through 12 – at 4 p.m. in the Charles Johnson Theater, and guest pianist Dr. Slawomir Dobrzański performs at 7 p.m. in the theater.
The event is free and open to the public.
The festival is designed to give pre-college students an opportunity to perform on a university campus, receive feedback from music faculty and potentially win awards and scholarships. Dobrzański, a professor of piano at Kansas State University, will select the award winners.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Dobrzański has performed in more than 20 countries in Asia, Europe, North America and South America. He has released several critically acclaimed world-premiere recordings of piano music by Maria Szymanowska, Antoni Kątski, Wiktor Łabuński, Károly Aggházy and Feliks Roderyk Łabuński. He also is an author of the first biography of Maria Szymanowska in the English language, published by the Polish Music Center at the University of Southern California. Originally from Wrocław, Poland, Dobrzański is a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Poland, and the University of Connecticut.
For more details, visit http://kxj.bj7dian.com/finearts/music/sonatina-festival.htm
