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On May 28, 2023, the enchanting larch wood church of St. Sebastian in Wieliczka was the venue for a mesmerizing concert titled „MUZYKA W POLICHROMIACH I SŁOWIE ZAMKNIĘTA.” The event featured a stellar lineup of performers, including the renowned soprano Katarzyna Oleś-Blacha, Anna Dębowska-Jaroszek, and other musicians including pianist Marta Mołodyńska-Wheeler, mezzo-soprano Monika Korybalska, tenor […]

On May 19-20, 2023, the International Scientific Conference „Practical Sport Psychology. Championship in Sport and on Stage” was held at the Academy of Physical Education in Krakow. It was organized by the Department of Psychology of the Academy of Physical Education in Krakow and the Institute of Psychology of the University of Gdańsk. The conference became a meeting place two environments – sports and artistic;

Organized by the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Edinburgh and performed by Anna Dębowska and Katarzyna Oleś-Blacha on 16 May 2023, the concert celebrated the introduction of the Polish Constitution of 3rd May in 1791, whose memory for years helped keep alive Polish aspirations for an independent and just society, the social attributes still valid and hard-fought for after nearly two centuries across much of Europe. 

It was precisely on 20th April 1848 that Frederic Chopin arrived in London to begin his tour of the British Isles. And it was precisely 175 years later on 20 April 2023 that Anna Dębowska performed a number of Chopin’s compositions to commemorate this event organized as part of the April Conference by the Jagiellonian Univerity’s Institut of English Studies. 

On Saturday, 11 February 2023, the first concert of the 4th Franciszek Schubert Days took place in the concert hall of the Music School Complex in Tarnów. 

On 7 November 2022 Anna Dębowska and Krakow’s world-class Soprano – Katarzyna Oleś-Blacha performed Szymanowski’s Pieśni Kurpiowskie op. 58: Lecioły zórazie, Wysła burzycka, Uwoz, mamo, U jeziorecka, A pod borem siwe kunie, Sciani dumbek, Wscyscy przyjechali, as part of the Szymanowski 2022 concert at the Academy of Music in Kraków.

Anna Dębowska (piano) and Norway’s Edvard Adde (tenor) at Bamff House, Scotland, on 17 October 2022, restaged F. Chopin’s Matinee Musicale originally given at 99 Eaton Pace, London, on 23 June 1848 at the residence of Mrs. Adelaide Sartoris, whom he knew in Paris. She herself was a soprano and had married Edward John Sartoris – a wealthy man of fashion, with aspirations to become a Member of Parliament. This concert was one of the few he gave in London and the first public one in Britain. It began at 3 pm and tickets, limited in number, were one guinea each.

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!