• Willa Lentza

• 28-09-2024, Saturday, at 7:00 pm - Ticketed event
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Our next concert in the cycle CHOPIN AT THE WILLA LENTZA. COMPLETE WORKS, held on Saturday, 28th September 2024, features the Japanese pianist Yuka Hattori and the excellent Polish cellist Andrzej Wróbel, both of whom have accepted our invitation to the Lentz family’s former residence in Szczecin.

Yuka Hattori, graduate of a piano class at Nagoya’s secondary music school, continued her performance studies with Profs Elżbieta Tarnawska and Ewa Pobłocka (solo piano) as well as Profs Maja Nosowska and Robert Morawski (chamber piano) at Warsaw’s Chopin University of Music.

She is the only Japanese musician to have obtained a doctorate from that famous university. Her DMA dissertation was titled The Birth of Classical Music in Japan on the Example of Five Pieces for Cello and Piano: Western Musical Influences and the Search for One’s Own Identity. The dissertation was coupled with a recording, made with Prof. Andrzej Wróbel.

Hattori has won prizes in numerous international competitions, including the Coppa Ambasciata d’Itali primo concorso di Pianoforte italiano Tokyo (2004), 3rd prize in the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach (2011), and the Grand Prix of the 12th International Music Competition & Festival ‘Music without Limits’ in Druskininkai (2012). She has given performances in Austria, Czechia, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.

Andrzej Wróbel is a highly regarded cellist, chamber musician, and pedagogue, former member of the Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Musicians’ Ensemble and co-founder (with Jan Tawroszewicz) of Kwartet Polski string quartet. With that latter ensemble he won competition prizes in Colmar (1st prize), Belgrade (2nd prize), Munich (3rd prize), as well as recording extensively for the French, German, Polish, and Swiss radio broadcasters. He was a co-founder (with Jerzy Maksymiuk) of POK Polish Chamber Orchestra and the founder of Camerata Vistula chamber ensemble, with which he frequently appears in Europe and the United States as well as releasing albums that have received excellent reviews in specialised music record magazines.

Wróbel is the author of, among others, arrangements for chamber ensemble and for string orchestra of Fryderyk Chopin’s complete works for piano and orchestra.

At the Willa Lentza, pianist Yuka Hattori and cellist Andrzej Wróbel will perform the following works by Fryderyk Chopin: Introduction and Polonaise Brillante in C major, for piano and cello, Op. 3, Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor (Lento con gran espressione), Op. posth., Waltz in A-Flat Major, Op. 69 No. 1 (WN 47), Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54, and Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65.

Please join us for this recital.