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Piano, Voice and Pipe Organ with Maria Welna
Saturday 27th September 2008
''A born performer" The Courier-Mail QLD
Live: Maria Welna, concert pianist, pipe organist and singer
Performances: Ghost Host Ignacy Paderewski
Appearance by legendary ghost host
Info: https://www.qtix.com.au/show/Piano_Voice_pipeorgan_08.aspx
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Old Museum Concert Hall, Corner Gregory Terrace and Bowen Bridge Road, Bowen Hills, QLD
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Tickets: $29.50 to $37.50
Time: 6:30pm - 9:30am
Sound: Acoustic
“… [A] born performer”
“Concert to showcase this young woman’s irrepressible style”
- The Courier -Mail, QLD
Piano, Voice and Pipe Organ with Maria Welna promises to be an intimate, one performer masterpiece at a heritage venue. The perfect way to spend a Saturday evening, the recital will showcase a unique blend of virtuoso works across several musical genres , four musical eras, three instruments and four languages. Audience members will embark on a journey through some of the world’s most stunning repertoire played on a combination of instruments that don’t often bask in the full glory of a recital stage.
Maria Welna, a 20 year old Australian concert pianist, pipe organist, singer (soprano) and composer founded her Chopin and Friends Recital Series in 2003. Stemming from an artistic vision of advocating quality classical music to large non-musical and musical audiences, the Series strives to make the works of the Great Masters and their often poignantly tragic yet enthralling lives more accessible and appealing to the public.
Maria always had a clear vision of what her future would be like. Ever since hearing a fateful Chopin recording at the age of five she knew that she would devote the rest of her life to music. Addicted to the stage, music along with performance constitutes her life-long passion and love. As a gifted pianist, pipe organist, singer and composer, Maria strives to use her talent, dedication and determination to contribute to society, bring music to a large number of people and move audiences world-wide.
She has played /sung across a range of world class venues (concert halls/cathedrals) in Australia, the USA and Poland and repeatedly performed for dignitaries/personages such as the Archbishop of Western Australia, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the Consul General of Poland in Australia, local Australian politicians and members of parliament. Currently, Maria is an undergraduate piano (main instrument), pipe organ, and voice performance student at the prestigious K. Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice, Europe, renowned for its excellent faculty members.
Her successes include two internationally selling CD’s, notable competition wins and musical directorship commitments. Maria has also shown extensive involvement in the literary, dramatic and historical worlds as an actor and avid writer of published stories, poems, essays, autobiographical material.
“… nineteen year old virtuoso”
“... one of Australian’s up and coming musical talents”
The Bayside Bulletin
“concert pianist and pipe organist with an amazing talent”
“perfection”
The Redland Times
“… She’s the picture of confidence. Her hands glide over the keys with [a] speed and sureness that defy her young age. She makes it look so easy …”
- The Chronicle-Telegram, USA
Program
J.S Bach - English Suite in A minor, BWV 807
S. Rachmaninov - Etude-Tableaux in E flat minor op 39 no 5
F. Chopin - Piano Sonata in B flat minor op 35 no 2
H. Purcell - When I am laid in earth from ‘Dido and Aeneas’
D. Sarri - Sen corre l’agnelletta
F. Schubert - An Die Musik
Ave Maria
W.A. Mozart - Agnus Dei from the ‘Coronation Mass in C major’
L’ho perduta, Voi che sapete and Non so piu from the ‘Marriage of Figaro’
S. Rachmaninov - All Passes op 26 no 15
J. Pachelbel- Toccata in F major
J.S. Bach – Chorales: Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 604
O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig, BWV 618
Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 541
Fantasy and Fugue in A minor, BWV 561
C. Franck- Prelude, Fugue and Variations in B minor
A selection of the artist’s critically acclaimed compositions
An engaging commentary about the Great Masters’ works/ lives as well as an act featuring the legendary ‘ghost’ host Ignacy Paderewski who played at the Old Museum during one of his international concert tours almost a century ago.
Tickets (inc. fees)
$29.50 to $37.50
(group discount available)
Previous Events: 3 Chopin and Friends Recitals
Future Events: Chopin and Friends Recital Series
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