Katarzyna Drogosz specializes in playing historical instruments and is interested in the history and construction of the piano. She is a finalist in the 2007 Musica Antiqua competition in Bruges. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed at the Mozartfest in Würzburg, the Tage Alter Musik in Herne, the Mozart Festival in Warsaw, the Trigonale Festival in Carinthia, among others. She has also performed with Capella Cracoviensis, Wrocław Baroque Orchestra and Orchestra Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense. She is a co-founder of the Laflamme Trio, and regularly collaborates with the Arte dei Suonatori ensemble. He performs with renowned musicians: Geoffrey Govier (piano), Agnieszka Oszańca (cello), Marta Boberska (soprano).
The pianist's numerous recordings include works by Czerny, Weber and Kuhlau with the Laflamme Trio (Coviello Classics), Ludwig van Beethoven Sonatas for piano and cello with Jaroslaw Thiel, and piano works by Franz Xaver Mozart (CD Accord). Two recent CDs in collaboration with Arte dei Suonatori present Polish music.
Katarzyna Drogosz studied under Aleksandra Kowalik and Teresa Manasterska at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Stanley Hoogland at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Robert Hill at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. Her artistic development was significantly influenced by master classes given by Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Andreas Staier and Władysław Klosiewicz. She was a student at the Collegium Civitas postgraduate program in cultural diplomacy. She is currently a lecturer there as part of the “Music and Media” study. She received her doctoral degree and teaches at music academies in Katowice and Krakow.
Vojtěch Semerád is a graduate of the Prague Conservatory, the Faculty of Pedagogy of Charles University in Prague (choirmastering) and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris (baroque violin with François Fernandez). He is a finalist of the Telemann- Wettbewerb International Competition in Magdeburg. He has been trained as a singer since 2010 throughout private lessons (with teachers such as Chantal Santon Jeffery, Peter Kooij, Poppy Holden) and masterclasses.
As a solo singer, Vojtěch Semerád is invited by renowned ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Ensemble Correspondances, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Vox Luminis or Huelgas Ensemble, with whom he performs at major international venues and festivals such as Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Park Avenue Armory New York, Logan Center Chicago, Concertgebouw Rotterdam, Wigmore Hall London, Palau de la Música Barcelona, etc. He has taken part in several opera productions, and has recently sung Histoires Sacrés by M.-A. Charpentier, the role of Acis in G. F. Handel’s Acis and Galathea, the role of Pythonisse in Charpentier’s David et Jonathas, the role of Atys in J.-B. Lully’s Atys and Fairy Queen by H. Purcell. He is regularly invited as the Evangelist in passions and oratorios by J. S. Bach.
Vojtěch Semerád is the artistic director of the vocal ensemble Cappella Mariana, with which he performs forgotten works of vocal polyphony of Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque era. Today the ensemble is regularly invited to the prestigious festivals a.o. Oude Muziek Utrecht, Laus Polyphoniae Antwerpen, Voices of Passion Leuven, MAfestival Brugge, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Innsbrucker Festwochen, Prague Spring and Concentus Moraviae.
He has recorded for Deutsche Gramophon, Naïve, Harmonia Mundi, Passacaille and Supraphon, in total more than 30 recordings, and also regularly records for Czech Radio. Vojtěch Semerád is also a researcher, focusing on the discovery of 15th, 16th and 17th century vocal music in Central Europe.
Julia Karpeta – viola da gamba,
plays the bass and soprano viol and violone in G. In 2019 CD Accord has released her solo album with Marin Marais and Antoine Forqueray music. She has been involved in the production of numerous other albums, e.g. the series presenting the works of Polish composers with Wrocław Baroque Ensemble. Her performance with Arte dei Suonatori and Le Poème Harmonique ensembles was recorded for the Mezzo television channel, and with gamba duo Fernabucco for Polish Radio 2. Julia has participated in several early music festivals, including International Festival Wratislavia Cantans, Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, BRQ Vantaa Festival, Actus Humanus, MITTO SettembreMusica, Misteria Paschalia, Kromer Festival Biecz, Intenational Bach Festival in Świdnica and Festival International de Santander. As a soloist and chamber player she performs in Poland and most European countries (Germany, Italy, Croatia, Chechia, Lithuania, Latvia, Denmark, Finland, France and Spain).
She graduated from the Secondary Music School in Wrocław in the viola da gamba class with Petr Wagner. Julia mastered her skills under the guidance of Brent Wissick at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Rainer Zipperling at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne as well as Mark Caudle at the Academy of Music in Wrocław. She has also participated in master classes conducted by Paolo Pandolfo, Wieland Kuijken and Lucas Peres. In 2011, Julia Karpeta won the Young Poland Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. As a member of the Overtone trio, she specialises in the performance of 17th- and 18th- century music. In 2023, ensemble was carrying out a month-long artistic residency in France as part of the Odyssée project (Fondation Les Arts Florissants - William Christie) supported by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2024, Overtone received 1st prize at the International Competition for Early Music Maurizio Pratola in L'Aquila.
The singer Anika Paulick (soprano) moves primarily between opera, operetta and chanson. She is characterised by her musical intensity and the courage to use her voice to bring emotional
worlds to life for the audience in a nuanced way.
Important stations were her permanent engagement during her singing studies at the Cottbus State Theatre as well as guest engagements at the Leipzig Opera (with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra), the Halle Opera, the Osnabrück Theatre, the Musikalische Komödie Leipzig, the Contemporary Music Festival in Estonia and the Classic Open Air Berlin, among others. Her repertoire includes roles such as Rosalinde (‘Die Fledermaus’), Rusalka, Ottilie (‘Im Weißen Rössl’) and Freia (‘Das Rheingold’).
In addition to classical music, Anika discovered her love of chanson. With the programme ‘Aufbruch. Und wo bin dann ich?’ by her chanson duo lola.gelb, she has performed at the Kurt Weill Fest in Dessau, the Krystallpalast Leipzig and the Theater im Palais Berlin, among others. Alongside her vocal studies at the HMT Leipzig, Anika studied education and German language and literature in Berlin and Leipzig. As a coach for voice awareness, she accompanies executives and self-employed people in workshops and seminars.
Felix Mendelssohn first came to Duszniki in 1823. At the time, he gave concerts with a local orchestra, composed, and rested. What traces of the composer remain today in the small spa in southern Poland? We will be able to find out during the concerts and events of the upcoming 7th Felix Mendelssohn-Barthold International Chamber Music Festival. The festival has already managed to become part of the region's tradition. In 2022, after a gap of seven years, it reappeared in a new edition. The aim of the organisers - the Association of Artistic Initiatives 'Bridges of Culture' and the Duszniki Cultural Centre - is to present the composer's chamber works and to internationalise the Festival.
Offer for sponsors
We warmly invite all companies and foundations interested in supporting our initiative to cooperate with us. Each of the concerts/festival events can be covered by a separate patronage - to be agreed individually according to the wishes of the interested party.
As part of the cooperation, the festival offers
- a larger logo with the note main patronage/patron/gold sponsor etc.
- Company name clearly visible at each event
- Dinner with the artists after one of the concerts
- Invitations with VIP seats to all festival concerts and events organised during the year.
- Possibility to organise one of the festival concerts in a space proposed by the sponsor (to be agreed)
- Barter concerts at corporate events during the year (planned individually according to the client's needs). We offer classical, jazz and early music ensembles.
- Festival gift package (region promo, artists' CDs, gadgets)
- Provision of festival space for the presentation of company products and promotional materials
- Display of rollups/ winders during the festival.
Na wszystkie wydarzenia Festiwalowe odbywające się w Teatrze Zdrojowym oraz w Hotelu Fryderyk obowiązują bilety wstępu w cenie 20 zł.
Podążając szlakiem Mendelssohna, chcemy zaprezentować publiczności muzykę kameralną kobiet - kompozytorek bliskich epoce, w której tworzył Mendelssohn. Bardzo często dzieła te są pomijane w programach koncertów kameralnych.
26.09 zapraszamy na niezwykły koncert „Na kwadrans przed Festiwalem”. Wystąpią na nim chóry szkolne z Kotliny Kłodzkiej, które wezmą udział w warsztatach ze znakomitą dyrygentką, kuratorką Akademii Chóralnej „Śpiewająca Polska” - Izabelą Polakowską-Rybską.
