Arte dei Suonatori, photo. Maciej Muława
The Polish baroque-music ensemble will play at this year’s Midsommerbarok Festival. The musicians based in Poznań will once again serve as festival orchestra, accompanying soloists and conductors from around the world, including Ruby Hughes, Anders Dahlin, Alexis Kossenko, Aline Zylberaich, Martin Gester and Gilbert Martinez.
Midsommerbarok is the largest festival of baroque music to feature early music performed in accordance with historical practices. The formula of “open laboratory” music attracts large audiences, who are able attend all rehearsals and have unrestricted access to the performing musicians.
This year is the 5th edition of the festival and will include 14 concerts in Copenhagen’s historic Frederiksberg district. The main events will be broadcast live by Denmark Radio Channel 2. The festival will also premiere the new album of Arte dei Suonatori, Royal Recorder Concertos (Decapo), recorded with the Danish flautist Boletta Roed.
Arte dei Suonatori was founded in 1993 by violinists Eve and Aurelius Goliński. They are best known on the international music scene for their performances of Polish music of the baroque and classical eras. The orchestra is now international, with permanent members from Poland, Germany, England, the Netherlands, Japan, France, Finland, Sweden and Denmark.
In 1998, the founders of the orchestra, along with Cezary Zych, the editor-in-chief of the early-music magazine Canor, initiated a large-scale series of concerts across Poland, Early Music – Persona Grata. Since 2003, Arte dei Suonatori has helped organize four major festivals of early music in Poland: the Handel Festival in Toruń, the Three Baroques Festival in Wrocław, the Music in Paradise Festival in Paradyż, and Mysteria Paschalia in Kraków. They regularly appear at the National Philharmonic.
The ensemble’s recordings have received enthusiastic response from international critics and have received awards from the music press including the Gramophone Award for Best Baroque Instrumental Recording, Diapason d'Or, Gramophone Editor's Choice, Choc du Monde de la Musique, Luister 10, 10 de Repertoire, Classics Today, Classic CD. For their work, the ensemble received the Medal of Young Art, TVP Kultural Award, and was nominated for the cultural prize Pegasus and the Passport from the magazine Polityka. In 2006, they were awarded the City of Poznań Arts Award for outstanding artistic achievement and for making Poznań a European center for early music.
For more information about the festival program, see: www.midsommerbarok.dk
Source: press materials, private materials
Edited by jn 14.06.2013
Translated by Alena Aniskiewicz 17.06.2013