Daniel Szefer
Program:

Johann Sebastian BACH:
Symphonia in F Minor

Fryderyk  CHOPIN:
Prelude in C  Minor Op. 28, No.20
Waltz in C-sharp Minor Op. 64, No.2
Polonez  in G Minor  
Nocturne C-  sharp Minor Op.37                                        
Prelude  in E minor  Op.28, No. 4
Prelude in D flat Major Op. 28, No. 15   “Raindrop”
Etiude in C Minor Op.12 No.10 “Revolutionary”

Edvard GRIEG:                           
Waltz E Minor Op. 38, No. 2          
Arietta Op. 13. No. 1     
                 
Sergiey  RACHMANINOV
Prelude in D Minor Op. 23, No.3 
Prelude in C- sharp Minor Op.3, No 2

Jana Pavlovska,

Born in Skopje, R. Macedonia,1983. Her music education started at the age of six, at the Republic Primary Music School “ I. N. Luj” Skopje. After she finished it, she continued to The Republic Secondary Music School. After, at the Music Academy      (The National Music Conservatoire) she finished her Bachelor Degree in Piano Performance with flying colors as the leader of her generation with best score of grades, and continued her education as a student of Graduate Studies in Piano Performance in the class of Prof. T.Svetiev.
During her education, from her beginnings, she has successfully performed at School and Academy concerts, but also solo national, as well as international: Bulgaria, Italy, France, United Kingdom, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro,The U.S.A. and Germany.
She has won many prizes:
-1st Prize at The National Music Competition, 1992 (Skopje, Macedonia);
-3rd Prize at The National Music Competition, 1995;
-1st Prize at The National Chopin Competition, 1996;
-1st Prize at The National Chamber Music Competition, at the Piano-duo category;
-2nd Prize at The International Music Competition “Anemos” 2000 (Roma, Italy);
-2nd Prize at The National Music Competition, 2001;
-1st Special Prize (100 points) at The National Solfedzo (ear-training) Competition, 2003;
-2nd Prize at the National Chamber Music Competition at the Chamber– trio category, 2005.
- Special “ Fuerderprise” Prize at The “Carl Drechsel” Piano Competition in Nuernberg, Germany,2010.

Jana Pavlovska

Program:
Fryderyk Chopin
Nocturn c-minor op.posthume
Nocturn D-flat major op27. no.2;
Ballade No 3 A-flat Major, op.47
Etude c-minor, op 25, no. 12 .
Etudes op.25, no. 1 and no.2 .

Agnieszka Iwanska

is an accomplished and gifted jazz vocalist, composer and lyricist. Her sultry and sensitive signing style stands out as a fresh and exciting voice in contemporary jazz. As a vocalist, Agnieszka has been hailed as the “voice of promise” by noted jazz critic Howard Reich from the Chicago Tribune. Brad Walseth of WNUA-FM praised her style and performance by noting that “Like Basia, Iwanska is a Polish singer who has taken on the Brazilian sound pioneered by Astrud Gilberto. She sings her well-written songs showing considerable ability, and charms the crowd with her fresh and honest approach.” Agnieszka is a graduate of the Jazz Studies program at the University of Katowice, Poland’s only accredited jazz program. While in Poland, Agnieszka had the opportunity to perform with some of the country’s top jazz talents including Mieczyslaw Szczesniak, Jan Smoczynski, Sebastian Frankiewicz and Daniel Biel, who play with Michael Urbaniak. After arriving in the US, Agnieszka formed her own band; a quintet featuring some of Chicago’s talented jazz musicians. Working with keyboardist/composer Paul Scherer, Agnieszka has completed her first full-length CD of original material. "All That I Am" debuted at number 45 on the smoothjazz.com indie chart and is now in rotation on over 90 radio stations across the US. The CD features songs in both English and Polish, all written and arranged by Iwanska and Scherer. The Polish TV Polvision and Polsat 2 made a few programs about Agnieszka in 2008. Iwanska received a prize Polonus 2008 as an Artist of a Year. Agnieszka and her band perform throughout the Chicago area, and have been featured artists in the annual All Soul’s Jazz Festival for the last four years. Among her numerous achievements, Agnieszka received first prize in the Krokus Jazz Festival and second prize in the International Competition of Jazz Vocalists in Zamosc, Poland. Agnieszka’s unique sound is not to be missed. Her unmistakable honesty and lack of pretension stand out as hallmarks of a talent worth getting to know.

Composer Jaroslaw Golembiowski was born in Poland in 1958. He holds two Master of Arts degrees: in Music Education, and Music Theory, Conducting and Composition (with composition studies under Zygmunt Herembeszta) from Karol Lipinski Academy of Music in Wroclaw, Poland.    

Golembiowski's creativity shows a great variety of musical techniques, and reflects his lifetime of focused study.  His music (organized in over 100 opuses) has been inspired by common and extraordinary events; that reach a universal audience. 
 He has received grants from the American Composers Forum the Margaret Fairbanks Jory Coping Assistance Program, the Polish National Alliance, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Polish Minister of Culture.
For many years he receives ASCAP PLUS Annual Award (including 2009). 

He has been an active member of The American Society of Composers and Publishers, The Chicago Composers Forum, The Polish Arts Club of Chicago, the Chicago Area Music Teachers Association and the National Association of Composers Texas Chapter. For many years, as a member of the Music Committee of the American Council for Polish Culture, he has helped to organize annual concerts and the Marcella Sembrich-Kochanska Vocal Competition.

In 2004 in order to promote more effectively Polish and American music he founded The Chicago Chopin Society.

In 2008 he was accepted as a member of The Polish Composers Society. 

Jaroslaw Golembiowski

PROGRAM
Music by Jaroslaw Golembiowski
Three  O'clock Waltz 
Fountain 
Short Romanza
Study 

NICOLE NOWAK

Nicole Nowak has been playing a piano since the age of seven. She began under the leadership of Ludwik Chyl and today studies under the direction of Professor Pawel Checinski.  In 2009, Nicole won the Polish Music Competition sponsored by ABC Music Academy and was also awarded "Superior" in various IHSA Music Competitions.

 Program:

Fryderyk Chopin - Nocturne E minor
Astor Piazzolla - Milonga del Angel

Adam Przybyl
is 16 years old and will be attending the University of Chicago this fall as a freshman. He started playing piano when he was 8. For the past year and a half, he has been under the instruction of Professor Pawel Checinski. Recently, Adam played the first movement of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with his high school orchestra. He plans on continuing piano throughout college, as well as giving lessons himself and composing.
He attended the Northwestern High School Music Institute for composition last summer, and has composed numerous pieces, of which two have been publicly performed. Both in his compositions and piano performance, he has been deeply influenced by Chopin’s works – he hopes to one day play the G minor Ballade and E minor concerto. In the meantime, he will be working on the second and third movements of the Tchaikovsky concerto, as well as various other sonatas, etudes, and fugues. Adam enjoys playing chess, reading, and discussing history, philosophy, and the meaning of life.

Adam Przybyl
Program:
Ludvig. van Beethoven - Sonate Pathetique II movement