- 27-03-2023, Monday, at 5:00 pm - Ticketed event
Our next concert in the JUVENUM HORTUS series features young participants of the MEISINGER Classical Guitar Masterclass: Gabriela Kościk, Hubert Marczak, Piotr Piętal, and Alicja Tomczyńska.
MEISINGER Music Festival Masterclasses are nationwide courses available to the most talented young musicians from Poland. The main aim is to let them meet and work with most eminent artists from all over the world. Part of this project, the Classical Guitar Masterclass is taught by one of the world’s most outstanding classical guitarists, Krzysztof Meisinger. The course participants are outstanding young musicians, winners of various international competitions.
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Krzysztof Meisinger
Publicly and critically acclaimed worldwide as one of the greatest and most charismatic classical guitarists of the day, Meisinger has appeared with such classical music stars as Sumi Jo, Philharmonia Quartett Berlin, and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. His talent has been compared by international reviewers to that of Piotr Anderszewski and Pepe Romero, and his teachers have included such major guitarists of our time as Aniello Desiderio and Christopher Parkening. Meisinger has performed throughout the world from Tokyo to Los Angeles to Buenos Aires, playing in the most prestigious concert halls such as Vienna’s Musikverein, London’s Wigmore Hall, Tokyo International Forum, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw. His debuts at the Berliner Philharmonie and the Golden Hall of Vienna’s Musikverein both earned a several-minute-long standing ovation. Meisinger performs with the best orchestras, such as the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, PKF – Prague Philharmonia, the Sinfonia Varsovia, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, and Sinfonietta Cracovia, under the baton of such masters as Wojciech Michniewski, Krzysztof Urbański, Michał Klauza, Michael Maciaszczyk, and Łukasz Borowicz.
He has appeared at such major events as the Festival of Polish Music in Cracow, the Usedomer Musikfestival, the Łańcut Music Festival, the Jerzy Waldorff Summer Festival in Radziejowice, ‘Music in Old Cracow’, the Warsaw Philharmonic Summer Festival, ‘La Folle Journee de Varsovie’, ‘Nova Music and Architecture’ in Toruń, and the Festival of Music Competition Winners in Bydgoszcz.
Meisinger’s discography, which comprises 10 solo albums and numerous guest appearances, has received numerous awards and excellent international reviews. His solo releases include music recorded with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under José Maria Florêncio at London’s famous Abbey Road Studios (Melodia Sentimental), with Sumi Jo, PKF – Prague Philharmonia, and Philharmonia Quartett Berlin (Meisinger), the Sinfonia Varsovia orchestra (Astor and Astor – Live at the Opera), and Poland baROCK Baroque orchestra (Vivaldissimo). In May 2020, Krzysztof Meisinger signed a three-year exclusive contract with the UK CHANDOS record company. His debut album under that label, Elogio de la Guitarra, has received glowing reviews and won the ‘Best of 2021’ title of the leading US music website AllMusic.
Meisinger’s personal accolades include the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis, Artistic Award of the President of Szczecin, Pro Arte Prize, and the Individual Award of the Minister of Culture.
The guitarist is the founder and artistic director of the annual MEISINGER Music Festival, held since 2017 in Szczecin, which, thanks to its top class artistic standards and professional organisation, soon gained the status of West Pomerania’s largest and most prestigious classical music event. Since its inception, the Festival has hosted such outstanding artists as Ivo Pogorelić, Sumi Jo, Piotr Anderszewski, Mariza, L’Arpeggiata, Alena Baeva, Janoska Ensemble, Daniel Stabrawa, Sinfonia Varsovia, Soyoung Yoon, and many others.
In the UK music website uDiscoverMusic’s May 2022 rankings, Krzysztof Meisinger was named one of the twenty greatest classical guitarists of all time, along with such names as Andrés Segovia, Julian Bream, and Francisco Tárrega.1st prize in the 7th International ‘Nouvelles Etoiles’ Online Music Competition, ArtimA International Cultural Association, Paris, France, January 2023
Joint 1st prize in category I in the 3rd International Guitar Competition, Katowice 17th-19th January 2023
Joint 1st prize in category B in the 8th ‘Virtuoso’ Music Interpretation Contest in Łęczyca, 8th December 2022
2nd prize in category I in the 21st International Czesław Droździewicz Guitar Competition in Krynica-Zdrój, 4th-8th December 2022
2nd prize in the 3rd Nationwide ‘Radom Guitar Rally’ Competition and Festival, Radom 29th November – 1st December 2022
Joint 2nd prize in the 2nd Baltic Coast Martinez Guitar Festival in Gdynia, 6th-8th October 2022
1st prize and special award for the highest score in all age categories in the 10th nationwide ‘Guitar in the Borderland’ Guitar Festival in Chełm, 11th April 2018
1st prize in the 4th Nationwide Kazimierz Sosiński Competition for Young Guitarists in Łódź, 11th-12th May 2018
2nd prize in the 5th Nationwide ‘Young Guitar Wizards’ Guitar Competition in Dobczyce, 16th March 2018
3rd prize in the 21st International Guitar Music Festival and Competition in Trzęsacz-Pobierowo, 31st May – 2nd June 2018
Special award for the best performance in the 6th Nationwide ‘Guitar Trio Moods’ Primary Music Schools Contest, Warsaw, 9th June 2018
Joint 1st prize in the 8th ‘Virtuoso’ Music Interpretation Contest in Łęczyca,
Joint 1st prize in the Albania International Guitar Competition
Joint 3rd prize in the 2nd Baltic Coast Martinez Guitar Festival in Gdynia
3rd prize in the 2nd Swiss International Music Competition, Lugano, Switzerland
1st prize in the 2022 International Music Competition ‘OPUS’ in Cracow, Section IV, Category A
1st prize in the International Guitar Competition Fernando Sor, Frýdek-Místek, Czech Republic
1st prize in the 12th nationwide Guitar Competition in Zambrów
2nd prize in the International Guitar Festival and Competition in Lubin
1st prize in the 15th St Nicholas Day Guitar Competition, Rybnik 2021
Grand Prix and 1st prize in the 12th Nationwide Spring Guitar Competition in Szczecin
Grand Prix and 1st prize in the 8th Nationwide ‘Among the Fields’ Guitar Festival in Witowice
1st prize in the Nationwide ‘Master of Individual Work’ Guitar Competition
1st prize in the 10th Nationwide Guitar Competition in Strzelce Krajeńskie
2nd prize in the International ‘Alhambra’ Junior International Guitar Competition in Valencia, Spain
2nd prize in the 15th International Anna Amalia Competition for Young Guitarists in Weimar, Germany
