Organ Recital by Marek Kudlicki at the Washington National Cathedral, March 17, 2013

The Embassy of the Republic of Poland and Washington National Cathedral announce an organ recital by Marek Kudlicki

Location:
Washington National Cathedral
Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
3101 Wisconsin and Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20016

March 17, 2013; 5:15 pm

The suggested donation: $10

Program:
Toccata Prima
Georg Muffat (1653-1704)

Dance Suite
Organ Tablature by Jan of Lublin (about 1540)

Prelude and Fugue in E flat major BWV 552
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Improvisations on the Polish Church Hymn „Holy God“ Op. 38
Mieczysław Surzyński (1866-1924)

„Rota“ - Passacaglia on a Theme of Feliks Nowowiejski (1985)
Bronisław K. Przybylski (born 1941)

Marek Kudlicki born in Tomaszów Lubelski, Poland He studied organ and conducting in Cracow and Vienna. Marek Kudlicki won the First Prize (and the Special Prize of the Polish Ministry of Culture and Art) in the Organ Competition in Poland in 1973. For many years he has been engaged in artistic activities giving many concerts in almost all of the European countries and many times in the USA and Canada (46 North American tours), as well as in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. His annual coast to coast North American tour are greeted with enthusiasm.

Marek Kudlicki regularly promotes Polish organ music in his programs. He routinely includes works of native composers in his recitals and his recordings. His repertoire is extensive. It encompasses works of all periods, including early, romantic and contemporary Polish organ music. Apart from solo works, he has in his repertoire numerous and seldom played pieces for organ and orchestra. He has performed these works with various orchestras throughout the world.In many years of the artistic career, he has often complemented his appearances as an organ soloist with his activities as a conductor.

Jan z Lublina, or Joannis de Lublin, Polish composer and organist who lived in the first half of the 16th century. He was a member of the Order of Canons Regular of the Lateran, circa 1540 he was possibly the organist at the convent in Kraśnik, near Lublin. From 1537 to 1548, he created the famous organ tablature, whose title is Tabulatura Ioannis de Lyublyn Canonic[orum] Reg[u]lariu[m] de Crasnyk. This is the largest organ tablature in the world (more than 350 compositions and theoretical treatise) and one of the earliest. It contains several compositions by Nicolaus Cracoviensis, as well as numerous intabulations of works written by Josquin, Heinrich Finck, Janequin, Ludwig Senfl, Claudin de Sermisy, Philippe Verdelot, Johann Walter, etc.

Mieczysław Surzyński (1866-1924) Polish composer, conductor and educator. He studied organ at Conservatories in Berlin and Leipzig. In 1890 he was appointed the director of Music Society’s Orchestra in Poznan. In 1906-1909 he had been a conductor of the choirs of Warsaw Philharmonic.

Bronisław Kazimierz Przybylski (1941-2011) Polish composer. Graduate of the PWSM in Łódź, where he received diplomas in music theory (in 1964) and composition (in 1969); he continued his studies in 1975-77 with R. Haubenstock-Ramati at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. Since 1963 he had lectured at the PWSM (now the Academy of Music) in Łódź, since 1991 as chair of the composition department, from 1992 as Professor. He has won, among others several awards at the G. Fitelberg Composition Competition in Katowice, and at the Composition Competition of the Polish Radio and Television in Warsaw, awards at the H. Wieniawski International Composition Competition in Poznań (1976), In 1999 he received the Knight\'s Cross of the Order of the Polonia Restitua. Chamber works and solo music dominate Przybylski’s output, in which the composer experiments with materials, texture and form, however his orchestral works are most significant.