The duo has been awarded many important prizes and is often invited to prestigious festivals in Poland and abroad. They’ve performed at the Warsaw Autumn festival, New Tradition Polish Radio Festival, Kwartesencja, Musica Polonica Nova (Poland), Duetissimo Festival (Belarus), Spring Festival (Israel), Two Moors (UK), Melez Festival, EBU (Germany), Londrina Festival (Brazil) and many others.
In 2006 Lutosławski Piano Duo began cooperating with the outstanding young Polish percussion duo Hob-beats (Magdalena Kordylasińska and Miłosz Pękala). Together they form the quartet Kwadrofonik, in which they play 20th-century music, such as works by Crumb, Bartók and Berio, as well as their own pieces inspired by Polish folk songs and dances.
Polish Radio published the duo's debut album in 2007, featuring works by Lutosławski, Poulenc, Stravinsky and Mauricio Kagel. In 2008 the album was nominated for the most important Polish music award – a Fryderyk – in three categories and was awarded the statuette for best chamber music album.
On the 100th anniversary of Witold Lutosławski's birthday in 2013, Kwadrofonik, along with the renowned Polish jazz singer Dorota Miśkiewicz, prepared their own version of Lutosławski’s Children's Songs. The album was released by Sony BMG. A few months after its première the album went gold in Poland.
Having played together since 1999, the musicians have managed to develop a harmony of their individual musical shades, articulations, rhythm and feelings. Their broad repertoire contains about a hundred pieces from baroque to contemporary compositions, as well as the musicians’ own transcriptions of symphonic pieces.
The Turkish concert’s repertoire includes The Wish by Fredric Chopin/Ferenc Liszt, as well as works by Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Witold Lutosławski and Sergei Prokofiev.
The event is organized as part of the cultural programme marking the 600th anniversary of Polish-Turkish diplomatic relations.
Source: press materials, ed. szm, October 2014