Do you want to spend an original Saturday afternoon in April? Do you like original music and do you love musical hits like “West Side Story”, “Les Misérables” or “The Phantom of the Opera”? We would like to invite you to the unique spring edition of the Olivia Camerata concert series! We invite you on April 22 (Saturday) at 4.00 p.m. to Olivia Sky Club (Olivia Tower building, 12th floor)

The programme will feature the most famous arias, songs and duets by Franz Lehar, Emmerich Kalman, Johann Strauss, Leonard Bernstein, Jerry Bock, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Andrew Lloyd Webber performed by Karolina Klawitter – soprano, Krzysztof Bobrzecki – baritone and Anna Mikolon – piano, who will take us m.in. into the land of Viennese operetta and musical.

Admission to the concert is free, but due to the limited number of seats, please register your place by e-mail: events@oliviacentre.com

At the Olivia Camerata 10 concert, we will hear a set of iconic musical pieces:

1. A.L. Webber, “The Phantom of the Opera”, duet “So Much Please”
2. C. Schonberg, “Les Misérables”, “Stars”
3. L. Bernstein, “West side story”, “I feel pretty”
4. J. Bock, “Fiddler on the Roof”, Song by Tewie
5. J. Strauss, “Die Fledermaus”, “Adela’s Aria”
6. E. Kalman, “The Princess of Csárdás”, duet “Although there are plenty of girls in the world”
7. E. Kalman, “The Csárdás Princess”, “So Completely Without Girls”
8. E. Kalman, “The Princess of Csárdás”, duet “In the Rhythm of the Waltz”
9. E. Kalman, “The Princess of Csárdás”, Csárdás Silvi
10. J. Strauss, “The Gypsy Baron”, Zupan’s couplets
11. F. Lehar , “The Merry Widow”, duet of Hanna and Danila

Performers:

Karolina Klawitter – lyric soprano, graduate of the Faculty of Vocal and Acting at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk. She made her debut as Tatiana in Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Baltic State Opera. In 2001 she was invited to Barcelona, where she sang the soprano part in Mozart’s Requiem with the choirs of Crete and the Spanish Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Joan Luis Moraled. He collaborates with music centres all over Poland. He has given chamber concerts as well as concerts with orchestra accompaniment. Together with the Gdynia Cultural Centre, she creates and conducts regular musical matinees for children at the Little Gdynia Philharmonic. Together with mezzo-soprano Izabela Lewandowska, he performs as the duo Sekreto. Since 2013, she has been associated with the Gdynia Cultural Centre, where she creates and conducts musical matinees for children as part of the Little Gdynia Philharmonic series. Since 2014, he has also been conducting concerts for children at the Kashubian Philharmonic in Wejherowo, sensitizing them to the beauty of classical music. Together with mezzo-soprano Izabela Lewandowska, he performs as the duo “Sekreto”.

Krzysztof Bobrzecki – baritone. He began his musical education in his hometown of Białystok, where he graduated from the State Secondary Music School. In the singing class of prof. Violetta Bielecka. He continued his education during his studies at the Faculty of Vocal and Acting at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk. St. Moniuszko, in the solo singing class of prof. Ryszard Minkiewicz. He perfected his vocal skills by taking part in numerous seminars and master classes for vocalists. Her opera repertoire includes, among others: the parts of Don Giovanni (Mozart), Martin and Servatius (Moniuszko’s Verbum nobile), Leonardo (Z. Kassern’s The Comedy of The Dumb Wife), Guglielmo (Puccini’s Le Villy), Doctor Falke (J. Strauss’s Die Fledermaus). In his musical pursuits, he does not shy away from contemporary music – he has a number of world premieres of works by composers working in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her opera repertoire includes, among others: the parts of Don Giovanni (Mozart), Martin and Servatius (Moniuszko’s Verbum nobile), Leonardo (Z. Kassern’s The Comedy of The Dumb Wife), Guglielmo (Puccini’s Le Villy), Doctor Falke (J. Strauss’s Die Fledermaus). Since 2008 He is invited to take part in a series of concert performances of operas in Bremen (Germany), where he was applauded as Samuel in Un ballo in maschera, Melitone and the Surgeon in La forza del destino, Crespel and Schlemil in The Tales of Hoffmann, and Shaunard in La Bohème. He is willingly entrusted with roles in contemporary operas, he has taken part in such works as a composer. participation in the world premiere of J.M. Wieczorek’s opera Jan z Kolno, participated in the staging of Michael Nyman’s opera The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Doctor P.), and in 2013 in the world premiere of P. Zych’s opera Poiesis (The Professor) as part of the Bydgoszcz Opera Festival. She also sings on opera stages in Warsaw, Szczecin and Gdańsk. As an assistant professor, he teaches solo singing at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk.

Anna Mikolon – pianist, scholarship holder of the Fryderyk Chopin Award and the Children’s Art Foundation, winner of the first prize in the Early Music Competition in Łódź. A graduate of the Academy of Music in Gdańsk. She completed an artistic internship in piano chamber music at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. In 2016 She obtained a postdoctoral degree in the artistic discipline of instrumental studies. Pedagogue at the Academy of Music and certified teacher of the Secondary School of Music. in Gdansk. Pianist during many master classes, often awarded as an accompanist at competitions. She is the author of the monographs: The Musical Language of Dmitri Shostakovich as a Form of Personal Expression (doctoral dissertation 2011) and The Specificity of the Work of a Pianist-Tutor of Vocalists. He has numerous publications and recordings to his credit, m.in. piano miniatures by Z. Noskowski and Piano Sonata No. 2 by D. Shostakovich. He conducts a variety of concert activities – chamber and solo – collaborating with both vocalists and instrumentalists (900 concerts in Poland, Austria, Denmark and Russia). She participates in artistic and scientific sessions and music festivals, such as: Gdańsk Music Summer – Chopin on the waters of the Motława River, Gdańsk Music Festival, International Piano Duo Festival, Gdynia Classica Nova, Sopot Days of Vocal Art, Sonosfera, Dobrodzień Classic Festival, New Waves Contemporary Music Festival, Gdańsk Vocal Days, Drozdowo-Łomża Music Days, Kaleidoscope of Musical Forms and Festival of Sacred Music in Sopot. For 11 years she was a pianist-tutor of soloists at the Baltic Opera. In 2017, she received the Cultural Scholarship of the City of Gdańsk.