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2020-07-07 23:55:25
The Polish-based Szymanowski Quartet has this week announced the appointment of Polish cellist Karol Marianowski to the ensemble – effective immediately. A graduate of Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music and the Boston Conservatory, where he studied with Tomasz Strahl, Kazimierz Michalik, Andrzej Bauer, and Andrew Mark, Karol will replace cellist Monika Leskovar. “I am looking forward to a new chapter of musical […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-11-04 17:02:45
String quartet signs up a concertmaster
Six weeks ago, the Szymanowski Quartet saw its founding first violinist, Grzegorz Kotow, leave to pursue other interests. Today it announced his replacement: The Szymanowski Quartet is pleased to announce its new member Robert Kowalski and is excited by the musical expertise and personal qualities he will bring to the quartet. Agata Szymczewska and Robert Kowalski have known each other for twenty years. They met, as members of different ensembles, at masterclasses when they were still children. He studied in Germany and Switzerland with Waleri Gradow, who followed his artistic development throughout the years. His education was influenced also by Kolja Blacher and Ana Chumachenco as well as the masters of the earlier generation: Bernard Greenhouse, Ivry Gitlis and Ida Haendel. He has many years of chamber music experience at festivals and concert series around the world. Robert is the first concertmaster of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-09-30 13:06:34
20 years ago, there were only a few string quartets and we were like family
The violinist Grzegorz Kotow announced today that he is leaving the Szymanowski Quartet, which he co-founded two decades ago. In parting, he has some trenchant thoughts on how the quartet world has changed. Here’s Grzegorz’s statement: I have decided to leave my beloved Szymanowski Quartet, of which I was co-founder and have been a member for over 20 years. I thought there was no better way to say good-bye than to do it with the Schubert Quintet with Misha Maisky in Wroclaw, close to the place where I was born. So Schubert’s amazing final c, which always sounds like destiny to me…was my last note. I always thought there was no better way to spend life than playing pieces like the Cavatina, but after all these successful years of living with and for the quartet, I have realized that it is time for something new in my […]
2015-02-02 21:00:40
Review: Szymanowski Quartet digs deep at Samueli. Orange County Register, Feb. 1, 2015