Bogusław Jan Bemben

BOGUSŁAW JAN BEMBEN - He studied with Gabriel Chmura, Tomasz Bugaj, Jerzy Salwarowski, Helmuth Rilling, Collin Metters. A graduate of the Academy of Music in Katowice in the symphony and opera conducting class of professor Jan Wincenty Hawel. Doctor of musical arts under the supervision of professor Mirosław Jacek Błaszczyk. A graduate of cultural management at the Jagiellonian University.

He collaborated with professional ensembles in Poland and around the world, conducting hundreds of symphony concerts, opera and operetta performances and musicals. In 2012, he participated in the International Conducting Competition Nikolaj Malko in Copenhagen (Denmark). In 2017, he took part in the International Conducting Competition. Felix Mendelssohn in Thessaloniki (Greece) and in August 2023 in the International Competition for Opera Conductors in Orvieto (Italy).

He has performed with outstanding soloists, including: Keiko Abe, Mark Ford, Frederic Macarez, Marta Magdalena Lelek, Joanna Szynkowska vel Sęk, Roman Perucki, Adam Wodnicki, Piotr Janosik, Mauricio Silva, Michał Musioł, Łukasz Ratajczak.

Bogusław Jan Bemben has served on the jury of international competitions and festivals many times. He has conducted international masterclasses in conducting, among others at the Music Academy in Banská Štiavnica (Slovakia). He is a guest lecturer in conducting at the Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic), the University of Hradec Kralove (Czech Republic), the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra (Slovakia), the University of Prešov (Slovakia) and the Catholic University of Ružomberok (Slovakia).

Since 2012, he has been an assistant professor at the Institute of Musical Arts of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Since 2021, he has been the conductor-head of the Silesian Symphony Orchestra "SINFONIA SILESIA". Since 2022, he is the founder and president of the Henryk Mikurda European Foundation for the Promotion of Art.

Zofia Gościniak

She is a graduate of the State Music School of the 1st and 2nd degree in Chorzów, in the flute class of Agnieszka Owsianka. She was a student of music theory at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland.

She has participated in many flute workshops with outstanding flutists, including Łukasz Zimnik, Jan Krzeszowiec, Adrianna Lis, Denis Bouriakov and Gareth Davis. She participated in lectures and conferences on music with world-famous theoreticians and composers, such as Karol Berger and Luca Antignani.

On August, 27th 2022 she made her debut as a soloist with the Flute Concerto in D major "Il Gardellino" by Antonio Vivaldi, accompanied by the Siemianowice Symphony Orchestra (currently the Silesian Symphony Orchestra) conductet by maestro Bogusław Jan Bemben.

Since October 2021 she is the principal flutist of the Silesian Symphony Orchestra "SINFONIA SILESIA.

Since January 2023 she is a vice-president of the Silesian Symphony Orchestra "SINFONIA SILESIA" association.

From the very beginning of its existence, the Silesian Symphony Orchestra has been developing dynamically, setting new goals for itself; our greatest dream is to promote ourselves beyond the borders of Poland.

Musikfestival Polen-Österreich, whose artistic director is Dr. Bogusław Jan Bemben, is our debut abroad, and more precisely in the European capital of music - Vienna.

The concert will include the overture to the opera "The Marriage of Figaro" by W. A. Mozart, Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major by W. A. Mozart and Symphony No. 1 in C major by G. Bizet.

The young flutist Zofia Gościniak and the Silesian Symphony Orchestra "SINFONIA SILESIA" conducted by maestro Bogusław Jan Bemben will perform at the concert.

When?

June, 9th 2024 r. at 8.00 pm in Minoritenkirche

(Minoritenplatz 2A, Vienna)

(If you have the opportunity to support the orchestra financially, we will be wholeheartedly grateful for any contribution, even the smallest one: https://zrzutka.pl/c6cf65)

SINFONIA SILESIA

Strona www stworzona w kreatorze WebWave.

ZNAJDŹ NAS