BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//The Chopin Society UK - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.chopin-society.org.uk
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Chopin Society UK
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20250101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260426T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260426T163000
DTSTAMP:20260416T214152
CREATED:20260316T200217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260409T105555Z
UID:1505-1777221000-1777221000@www.chopin-society.org.uk
SUMMARY:Magdalena Filipczak
DESCRIPTION:Violinist Magdalena Filipczak has been praised by The Arts Desk as “a musical chameleon.” The New York Concert Review hailed her Carnegie Hall debut  “a concert not to be forgotten…the vehicle of violin wizardry.” Magdalena has appeared as a soloist\, recitalist\, and chamber musician on some of the world’s most prestigious stages across Europe\, and Americas\, including Wigmore Hall\, Het Concertgebouw of Amsterdam\, the Tallinn Philharmonic in Estonia\, Cracow Philharmonic\, the Baltic Philharmonic in Poland\, and Curitiba Philharmonic in Brazil. Since 2022\, she has been collaborating as a soloist with the International Conducting Academy (ICA) in London. Among Magdalena’s many international competition successes\, she is the winner of the IV Heino Eller International Violin Competition in Estonia\, as well as the Gold Prize at the 2018 Manhattan International Music Competition. For her achievements and contributions to culture\, she was awarded the Młoda Polska Scholarship by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. \nMagdalena’s acclaimed debut solo CD\, Essence of Violin\, was celebrated by The Strad magazine as “glittering” and “captivating.” Magdalena’s solos can be heard also on Rosalía’s new album Lux\, the BBC series Thief at the British Museum\, CDs by Tim Garland\, and chamber albums by Gruppo Montebello and Peter Gregson (on Deutsche Grammophon). Her performances have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3\, Chicago WFMT\, Dutch Radio 4\, Canadian Radio\, and numerous European TV and radio stations. Upcoming releases include a CD with the renowned pianist Peter Frankl and an EP with her brother\, pianist Łukasz Filipczak\, recorded on the legendary ex-Ida Haendel Stradivarius. \nIn Autumn 2025 Magdalena was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts in Music Performance degree from the Graduate Center (CUNY) in New York\, where she was a recipient of the prestigious Graduate Center Fellowship. Her final thesis on Britten’s Violin Concerto and His Early Period are published online. She is also a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London as well as Itzhak Perlman’s The Perlman Music Program. Additionally\, Magdalena studied classical and jazz singing. As an inspiring educator\, she has taught at music institutions in London and New York. \nMagdalena will be performing on a fine violin kindly loaned to her through the Beare’s International Violin Society. \nMagdalena is accompanied by pianist Sam Armstrong. \nHailed as ‘a major new talent’ by International Piano and a ‘pianist of splendid individuality’ by The Arts Desk British pianist Sam Armstrong gave solo debut recitals at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam\, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in New York as well as at the Wigmore Hall in London. \nStrongly drawn to chamber music\, Sam has performed with musicians including Elina Buksha\, Valeriy Sokolov\, Krzysztof Chorleski\, Fenella Humphreys\, Viviane Hagner\, Hannah Roberts\, Ralph Kirshbaum\, Alban Gerhardt and Pablo Barragan. He has appeared at festivals including Aldeburgh\, Cheltenham\, Krzyzowa Music\, Mecklenburg-Vorpommen\, Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music\, Ravinia and in venues such as Seoul Arts Centre\, Esplanade Singapore\, Kumho Art Hall Seoul\, and Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall. He has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3\, Radio Suisse-Romande/Espace 2\, NPO Radio 4\, WQXR New York\, WFMT Chicago and Radio New Zealand. \nSam maintains a regular partnership with the soprano Katharine Dain\, releasing their first album “Regards sur l’Infini” in November 2020. The disc won the prestigious Edison Klassiek award in 2021 as well as being selected as The Guardian’s Classical album of the week. Their second disc “Forget This Night” was chosen as BBC Music Magazine’s Song CD of the month and also received major acclaim from the Times\, Gramophone\, as well as in the Dutch press NRC\, Volkskrant & Trouw. \nHighlights of recent seasons have been recitals at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam\, De Doelen Rotterdam\, Concertgebouw Brugge & International Lied Festival Zeist with Katharine Dain\, Wigmore Hall with violinist Geneva Lewis\, National Concert Hall Dublin with cellist Ariana Kashefi\, as well as Perth Concert Hall\, Bath and Lammermuir festivals with violinist Irène Duval. \nHis own studies were with Helen Krizos in Manchester at the Royal Northern College of Music and subsequently in New York with Richard Goode at Mannes College of Music. He won the most important awards for piano in both institutions: first prize in the RNCM Piano Recital Prize and the Nadia Reisenberg Debut Award from Mannes. He also worked with John O’Conor in Dublin and in masterclasses with Leon Fleisher\, Menahem Pressler\, Mitsuko Uchida\, Murray Perahia and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. He also studied song repertoire extensively with Cristina Stanescu in New York and Roger Vignoles in London. \nSam is currently Senior Tutor in Keyboard Chamber Music and Professor of Piano at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. Credit for Sams photo goes to Andrej Grilc. \nMagdalena and Sam will play: \nChopin              Nocturne E flat major\, Op. 9 nr 2\, Andante\, arr. Pablo de Sarasate \nChopin              Mazurka Op. 33 nr 2\, arr. Fritz Kreisler \nChopin              Życzenie (The Wish)\, Op. 74 nr 1\, lyr. Stefan Witwicki \nBritten                Lullaby and Waltz from Suite Op. 6 \nChopin              Ballade in G minor\, Op. 23\, arr. Eugène Ysaÿe \nSchubert          Sie mir gegrüßt (Let me greet you)\, Op. 20 nr 1\, ded. Justina von Bruchmann \nSchubert          Fantasia in C major for violin and piano\, D. 934 \, Op. posth. 159 \nThis concert is sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute
URL:https://www.chopin-society.org.uk/recital/magdalena-filipczak/
LOCATION:Westminster Cathedral Hall\, Ambrosden Avenue\, London\, SW1P 1QW
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.chopin-society.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Filipczak-Armstrong.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260517T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260517T163000
DTSTAMP:20260416T214152
CREATED:20260409T110325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T151753Z
UID:1519-1779035400-1779035400@www.chopin-society.org.uk
SUMMARY:Peter Donohoe
DESCRIPTION:Peter Donohoe was born in Manchester in 1953.  He studied at Chetham’s School of Music for seven years\, graduated in music at Leeds University and went on to study at the Royal Northern College of Music with Derek Wyndham and in Paris with Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod.  He is acclaimed as one of the foremost pianists of our time\, for his musicianship\, stylistic versatility and commanding technique. \nIn recent seasons Donohoe has appeared with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra\, BBC Philharmonic and Concert Orchestra\, Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra\, St. Petersburg Philharmonia\, RTE National Symphony Orchestra\, Belarusian State Symphony Orchestra\, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.  He has undertaken a UK tour with the Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra\, as well as giving concerts in many South American and European countries\, China\, Hong Kong\, South Korea\, Russia and the USA.  Other past and future engagements include performances of all three MacMillan piano concertos with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; a “marathon” recital of Scriabin’s complete piano sonatas at Milton Court; an all-Mozart series at Perth Concert Hall; concertos with the Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra\, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra at London’s Royal Festival Hall\, and a residency at the Buxton Music Festival. \nDonohoe is also in high demand as a jury member for international competitions.  He has recently served on the juries at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (2011 & 2015); Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels (2016); Georges Enescu Competition in Bucharest (2016); Hong Kong International Piano Competition (2016); Vlassenko Piano Competition and Festival (2017); Alaska International e-Competition (2018); the Concours de Genève Competition (2018); Ferrol Piano Competition (2022)\, and Hong Kong International Piano Competition (2022)\, among many others both within the UK and abroad. \nDonohoe’s most recent disks include Bacewicz: Orchestral Works Vol. 2 and an exploration of Busoni’s solo piano works with Chandos; Taneyev & Schumann: Piano Quintets with Signum; Granados & Albeniz with Chandos\, and a section of waltzes of Ravel\, Schumann\, Debussy & Chopin with SOMM.  Other recent recording include six volumes of Mozart Piano Sonatas (SOMM); Haydn Keyboard Works Vol 1 (Signum); Grieg Lyric Pieces Vol 1 (Chandos); Dora Pejacevic Piano Concerto (Chandos); Brahms & Schumann viola sonatas with Philip Dukes (Chandos)\, and Busoni: Elegies and Toccata (Chandos)\, which was nominated for the BBC Music Magazine Award. \nDonohoe has performed with all the major London orchestras\, as well as orchestras from across the world: the Royal Concertgebouw\, Leipzig Gewandhaus\, Munich Philharmonic\,  Swedish Radio\, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France\, Vienna Symphony\, and Czech Philharmonic Orchestras .  He has also played with the Berliner Philharmonika in Sir Simon Rattle’s opening concerts as Music Director.  He made his twenty-second appearance at the BBC Proms in 2012 and has appeared at many other festivals including six consecutive visits to the Edinburgh Festival\, La Roque d’Anthéron in France\, and at the Ruhr and Schleswig Holstein Festivals in Germany. \nThe 23/24 season kicked off with Peter Donohoe performing as a soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle with four performances of Messiaen’s Turangalila-Symphonie in London\, Edinburgh and Bucharest.  Following a March 2024 South American Tour\, notable performances in the 24/25 season included concerts with the Symphony Orchestra of India\, the Georges Enescu Symphony Orchestra in Bucharest\, Vox Arma Deus in Philadelphia (USA)\, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Cadogan Hall.  The season also featured recitals at the Fondación Juan March in Madrid\, the Chopin Piano Festival in Prishtina\, Kosovo\, and at various UK festivals including the Ludlow Piano Festival\, Newbury Spring Festival and Ulverston Music Festival. \nPeter Donohoe will play the following programme: \nBUSONI: Variations on a theme of Chopin Op. 22 \nCHOPIN: 24 Preludes\, Op. 28 \nRACHMANINOV: Variations on a Theme of Chopin Op. 22
URL:https://www.chopin-society.org.uk/recital/peter-donohoe/
LOCATION:Westminster Cathedral Hall\, Ambrosden Avenue\, London\, SW1P 1QW
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.chopin-society.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/DonohoeOct202328-1-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR