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02.12
Saturday / 18.00
Gdańsk, Filharmonia Bałtycka, Sala Kameralna

Scena muzyki polskiej: Kurpiński, Sowiński, Elsner, Dobrzyński, Wolff, Lessel, Ogiński, Bergson. Łukasz Długosz - flet, Marek Toporowski - pianoforte

Concerts

  • 02-12-2023 / Gdańsk, Filharmonia Bałtycka, Sala Kameralna

    Scena muzyki polskiej: Kurpiński, Sowiński, Elsner, Dobrzyński, Wolff, Lessel, Ogiński, Bergson....

  • 25-11-2023 / Ways to Bach, Kingston (CA)

    Zieleński & more, Capella Cracoviensis, Marek Toporowski - organ continuo

  • 24-11-2023 / Ways to Bach, Montréal (CA)

    Zieleński & more, Capella Cracoviensis, Marek Toporowski - organ 

  • 23-11-2023 / Ottawa (CA), National Arts Center. Ways to Bach

    Capella Cracoviensis, J.T.Adamus

  • 12-11-2023 / Dom Kultury Żabia Wola. Muzyka i literatura polskich dworów i pałaców.

    Krzysztof Gosztyła czyta fragmenty "Pana Tadeusza". Marek Toporowski (fp) - muzyka polska XIX wieku.

  • 11-11-2023 / Dom Pracy Twórczej "Reymontówka". Chlewiska 22. Muzyka i literatura polskich dworów i pałaców.

    Krzysztof Gosztyła czyta fragmenty "Pana Tadeusza". Marek Toporowski (fp) - muzyka polska XIX wieku.

  • 10-11-2023 / Wiaderno. Gminny Dom kultury. Muzyka i literatura polskich dworów i pałaców.

    Krzysztof Gosztyła czyta fragmenty "Pana Tadeusza". Marek Toporowski (fp) - muzyka polska XIX wieku.

  • 09-11-2023 / Grodzisk Maz. , Szkoła Muzyczna. Muzyka i literatura polskich dworów i pałaców

    Krzysztof Gosztyła czyta fragmenty "Pana Tadeusza". Marek Toporowski (fp) - muzyka polska XIX wieku.

  • 05-11-2023 / Dwór w Grzymałowie k. Miechows

    Projekt „Noce i dnie”. Wokalna i fortepianowa muzyka polskiego romantyzmu. 

  • 04-11-2023 / Zabrze, Fortepianarium, prezentacja fisharmonii ze zbiorów

    Marek Toporowski

  • 29-10-2023 / Koncert Towarzystwa Bachowskiego, Kraków, kościół ew. św. Marcina

    Katarzyna Czubek - flet prosty, Marek Toporowski - klawesyn

  • 27-10-2023 / Warszawa, kościół ewangelicko - reformowany przy Al. Solidarności Koncert promujący nową płytę

    Piotr Domagała - gitara, Marek Toporowski - klawesyn

  • 25-10-2023 / Romantyczna muzyka na flety, Kielce

    Agata Kielar-Długosz, Łukasz Długosz, Marek Toporowski

  • 25-10-2023 / Koncert kameralny - polski romantyzm

    Agata Kielar-Długosz, Łukasz Długosz - flety, Marek Toporowski - pfte 

  • 22-10-2023 / Koncert kameralnej muzyki baroku, Kielce - kościół ...

    Agata Kielar-Długosz, Łukasz Długosz - flety, Marek Toporowski - klawesyn

 

MAREK
TOPOROWSKI

He performs as a harpsichordist, organist, fortepianist and conductor.

Marek Toporowski was born in Warsaw in 1964. He teaches harpsichord at the Academies of Music in Cracow and Katowice, as well as harpsichord and organ at the Warsaw Chopin Conservatory of Music. He studied with Leszek Kędracki, Aline Zylberajch and Bob van Asperen (harpsichord), Martin Gester (basso continuo and chamber music) and Józef Serafin and Daniel Roth (organ).

He won first prize in the 1st Wanda Landowska National Harpsichord Competition, and was also a finalist of the 1st Wanda Landowska International Competition in 1994.

In 1991, he formed his own chamber ensemble Concerto Polacco—one of the pioneering ensembles of baroque music in Poland. The group very soon became the leading orchestra which was joined by the chamber choir Sine Nomine specializing in performing baroque cantatas and oratorios. With those two ensembles, Marek Toporowski made numerous recordings of early Polish music, including such works as the opera Agatka by Johann David Holland, the oratorio Christiani poenitentes ad sepulchrum Domini by Jan Tomasz Żebrowski, and sacred music by Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki, Amando Ivančič Józef Zeidler, and Marcin Józef Żebrowski.

As harpsichordist, he made the first-ever recording of Charles Noblet’s Livre de clavecin. As an organist, he records extensively on historical organs. His participation in the documentary project Orgeln in der Niederlausitz, or the first recording on the Silbermann organ in Oederan are well worth mentioning.

 

His latest recording—Bach’s organ trio sonatas BWV 525-530 on the historical Joachim Wagner Organ in Siedlce (a version with added continuo instruments) received the prestigious prize of the Polish recording industry—Fryderyk (the fifth time in his career).

Marek Toporowski is the chamber partner of many renowned soloists. He’s also very active in the field of preservation of national heritage. In 2012, he founded Fortepianarium—a unique collection where his own instruments are exhibited and used for concert and teaching purposes.

 Files to downloadBIO + photos [54 MB]

12.08.2023
Cembalo Leopolis. Live from Lviv ...

Svitlana Shabaltina + Marek Toporowski. 

Reversio plays music from the Braunsberg tablature
10.08.2023
Reversio plays music from the Braunsberg tablature

Soon in Lidzbark Warmiński, Olsztyn and Braniewo!

Cembalo Leopolis
10.08.2023
Cembalo Leopolis

Tomorrow (11.08) in the Lviv Philharmonic. Together with Svitlana Shabaltina, the founder of Kiev harpsichord school. I hope that the Muses won't be silent this time again singing beautiful tunes and plucking harpsichord strings. 

10.08.2023
Festival of Early Music, Lviv. 2023.

Wonderful opening of the festival. Ukraine. Muses are not silent. Indeed, they are not silent. Respect for my Ukrainian friends, who in the most horrible times manage to follow the path of beauty. Great festival. 

 
05.08.2020
MAREK TOPOROWSKI's KEYBOARD ACADEMY

...to be continued! 

The idea of the Keyboard Academy results from combining several of my passions: the passion of a pedagogue, the passion of a collector of early instruments and the passion of a concertizing musician. The idea is to utilize the abundant collection of different, often unconventional keyboard instruments that I own, and make it available to a broader group of interested parties.

The first realization of the Keyboard Academy idea was Marek Toporowski’s Warsaw Keyboard Workshop, organized twice in Warsaw (Music School Complex on ulica Bednarska) in 2018 and 2019. It is being continued by educational activities taking place under the auspices of the Silesian Center for the Protection of Keyboard Instruments – Fortepianarium.

So I invite you to take part in the educational endeavors that I organize.

 Find out more about the Academy

Concerto Polacco

"Concerto Polacco"is a pioneering early music ensemble in Poland. Many works of the world oratorio literature have Concerto Polacco and Marek Toporowski to thank for their first Polish performances on period instruments.

The ensemble has been active since 1991, originally as a chamber ensemble. Over time, the ensemble has often been expanded to the size of a chamber orchestra. Concerto Polacco’s members are musicians specializing in period-instrument performance, gathered around harpsichordist, organist and conductor Marek Toporowski.

 concertopolacco.com

 facebook.com/concertopolacco

Fortepianarium

A magical place in the post-industrial landscape of Silesia. A unique collection of harpsichords, ancient pianos, harmoniums and analog electronic keyboards. A meeting place with good music.

Concerts on the 1st or 2nd Sunday of the month at 17.00
Donation tickets cost PLN 10.

 ul. Hagera 41, 41-800 Zabrze

 fortepianarium.wordpress.com

 facebook.com/fortepianarium

Marek Toporowski

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 marektoporowski.blogspot.com