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On 9 October in the Low Parks Museum in Hamilton – part of the former Hamilton Palace estate, where Chopin stayed in October 1848, Anna Dębowska peformed a selection of the Great Romantic’s composotions in the narrated concert „Chopin’s Scotland”.

On 8 October 2021 at 6.30 pm at Holy Trinity Church in Stirling, Anna Dębowska restaged Chopin’s matinée musicale originally held on 4 October 1848 in the Hopetoun Rooms, Edinburgh. The event included Chopin’s Valses, Mazourkas, Nocturnes, and his other compositions which he performed during his last public performance in Scotland – some say, his last public performance at all.

On the 25th of April 2021, Anna performed „Le ruban dénoué” by Reynaldo Hahn together with Gajusz Kęska to inaugurate the International Piano Duo Festival „Duettissimo” 2021. Due to the Covid-19 restrictions, the concert was recorded and will be aired on 1 June 2021 on Youtube.

„Past into Present: Gargunnock House 2019” – a concert restaging Chopin’s matinée musicale held on 27 September 1848 in the Merchants’ Hall, Glasgow. 

St. John’s Kirk in Perth on the 9th of October 2019 was filled with real music and history lovers. And in the audience Dennis Melloy, Provost of Perth and Kinross, Mrs Sylwia Spooner representing the Consulate General of Poland and many other celebrities. Perth Friends of Bydgoszcz, Perth Scouts, Jagiellonian University, Consulate General of Poland in Edinburgh, thank you!

On 5 April 2019 Anna performed a narrated piano recital of Chopin’s music to conclude the international conference „Romantic Interactions” held at the Polish Academy of Skills, Kraków,  Below you will find a review of the conference and Anna’s performance by prof. Charlotte May (University of Nottingham)

A near capacity audience gathered in St John’s Kirk to listen to Anna Dębowska play a programme of Polish Music to celebrate the centenary of the founding of modern Poland.

It was after approximately 100 years that the family of Stirlings was reunited with the famous Pleyel Grand Piano No 13823 which once belonged to Jane Stirling and on which Frederick Chopin played in Scotland in 1848.

An Evening with Jane Stirling was an opportunity to listen to a variety of Chopin’s  compositions,  including the two Nocturnes which he dedicated to Jane Stirling, performed by the inimitable Anna Dębowska. 

This concert was a celebration of two anniversaries: 170 years since Jane Stirling brought Frédéric Chopin to Scotland and 100 years since Poland regained its hard-fought independence. The event was, therefore, an opportunity to demonstrate the multitude of ties that connect the Polish and Scottish nations.

During the event, the audience had an opportunity to listen to a variety of Chopin’s  compositions,  including the two Nocturnes which he dedicated to Jane Stirling, performed by the inimitable Anna Dębowska.  Contextualized by Marcin Jaroszek’s narration, „An Evening with Jane Stirling” spsn a story of love, devotion, disillusionment and unconditional respect for this somewhat whimsical Romantic genius.

September 1848. The window to his room presents a most beautiful view of the „Sterling Castel”. He is a great pianist and Jane Stirling knows it only too well.