Performers

Originally founded in Warsaw and led by Grzegorz Fitelberg,
the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra gave its
first concert on the air on 2nd October 1935. Its performances
were regularly broadcast on Polish Radio
till the outbreak of World War II. Reactivated in 1945
in Katowice by Witold Rowicki, it was again directed
by Fitelberg from 1947 onwards, assuming the name
of the Great Symphony Orchestra of Polish Radio (since
1999 – the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra).

A California-based drummer active in LA’s contemporary improvised music scene, graduate of the University of Cincinnati College – Conservatory of Music and the California Institute of the Arts. She also studied African music with Alfred Ladzekpo. Her style combines traditional jazz and classical techniques with African rhythms.

He studied experimental music at the prestigious Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University, as well as graduating in psychology (his work concerned the so-called ‘lucid dreams’).

He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1988 he
came second in a competition for young conductors
during the Besançon International Music Festival. Rophé specialises in contemporary music, but he
does not shun the classical symphonic repertoire.

She studied with David Strange at the Royal Academy of Music and with Ralph Kirshbaum at the Royal Northern College of Music. She has also attended master classes with Johannes Goritzki, Gary Hoffman, Bernard Greenhouse, Zara Nelsova, Yo-Yo Ma, Frans Helmerson, and Steven Isserlis.

A tenor saxophone player brought up in Israel, he received education at the Thelma Yellin High School and the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in Tel Aviv. In 2011 he obtained a full scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music, and in 2013 – a bachelor’s degree in jazz performance.

Roth
studied violin with Nicolas Chumachenco at the
Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Zakhar Bron in
Lübeck, Ana Chumachenco in Zurich and Munich.

Born as Witold Kałka in Taganrog, Russia, and repatriated to Poland in 1923, he studied violin with Artur Malawski and Stanisław Mikuszewski as well as music theory with Michał Piotrowski and Bolesław Wallek-Walewski at Kraków Conservatory. Performing at the same time in Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra. During World War II he played the viola in the Orchestra of the Philharmonic of the General Government as well as studying conducting with Rudolf Hindemith and theory and composition with Zdzisław Jachimecki.