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Click here to view photos from this event.
Photos by Zosia Zeleska-Bobrowski.
Saturday, Nov. 3 at 6:30pm at
the New Dance Group Arts Center, 305 West 38th Street at 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10018.
Tickets: $25 |
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Mieczyslaw Swiecicki is one of the most popular stars of the outstanding Polish Cabaret Piwnica pod Baranami. He started his career as a singer with Piotr Skrzynecki, Wieslaw Dymny, Ewa Demarczyk, and Zygmunt Konieczny. He is popularly called “The Prince of Moods and Romances”. He is known as a Ballad singer of the Russian and Gypsy romance as well as for the songs of Wertynzki. In the late 1980’s, Mieczyslaw Swiecicki founded and was elected the President of the Foundation of European Art and Culture ARS LONGA having its headquarters in Krakow. He is also a member of the Monte Cassino Monument Building Committee.
Born into an aristocratic family of Swiecicki in a small town of Sokol on the River Bug between Wilno and Lwow, his early years were tumultuous. The Sawicki family roots can be traced all the way back to King Boleslaw Chrobry, and his famous battle in Kiev on the River Bug. Unfortunately, his childhood occurred under the German occupation during World War II. Undaunted, he obtained his musical education in Krakow at the Music Academy where he specialized in piano, clarinet and guitar. He worked for ten years with a folk dance group called “Zespol Piesni i Tanca Ziemi Rzeszowskiej” and then worked in the Theater Rapsody. Later he joined the famous Cabaret “Piwnica pod Baranami”. In his professional life, he traveled throughout Europe as well as Asia, Africa, and the United States. Singing and interpreting the work of Zagadlowicz, Tuwim, Slonimski, Galczynski, and Wertynski. He is a most respected poetic singer/interpreter as well as a most original artist of Polish theater, radio, and television. The popularly known “Prince of Romances” is loved and admired by the present generation. |
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“Ms. Manka displayed cultivated tone and expression”
- The Strad Magazine May 2001 concert reviews
She studied violin at the Szymanowski Music High School as well as the Music Academy of Katowice, Poland. In 1997, she received her Bachelor’s degree in music performance from The Juilliard School in New York. Her post-graduate studies (1997-99) at the Conservatoire National de Region deVersailles (France) were crowned by the diploma “Premier Prix de Perfectionnement”. |
Agata Manka |
Ms. Manka is a laureate of the Polish National Competition in Elblag (1991) and a finalist in the Competition of Lublin (1990).
She is a recipient of several scholarships:
The Cultural Foundation of Warsaw, C.V. Janette Albert, and the Wysocki –Bloch awards from the Juilliard School.
She participated in concerts at the “Mozarteum Festival” in Salzburg (Austria) and the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival in Maine.
The young violinist held the position of concertmaster with L’Orchestre de la Cite Internationale in Paris and performed as a member of the chamber ensemble “Anagramme”.
Ms. Manka has recorded extensively for Polish Radio and Television as well as for Radio France. Ms. Manka was a member of the “Jupiter Symphony”. Since September of 2000 she is a member of the “Prometheus Chamber Orchestra” in New York, Dicapo Opera Theatre and is active as a member of a chamber music ensemble “Metropolitan”.
In Poland, Ms. Manka was a member of “Music for Young Listeners” series of concerts and lectures for kids ages 3-18.Since year 2000, she is the faculty member for The Young Musicians Summer Festival in Evanston, Wyoming, where she works as a violin teacher and a performer.
In 2001, Ms. Manka has established her private violin teaching studio.
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| Bartosz Hadala’s fascination with music began at a young age in his native Poland when he began listening to his father’s collection of Dixieland records. He was playing the piano by age six. From 1984 through 1992 while receiving formal musical training at the local music school Bartosz actively participated in festivals, competitions and jazz workshops. At 16, Bartosz became the youngest finalist in the Mieczyslaw Kosz International Jazz Piano Competition (Kalisz, Poland), and also received a scholarship from Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA). |
Bartosz Hadala |
In 1996 he studied with Anatoliy Kardashov at Odessa State A.V. Nezhdanova Musical Academy (Ukraine), and in 1998 received a full scholarship to Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI), where he completed his jazz studies. While at WMU Bartosz received an “Outstanding Performance” award from “Down Beat” magazine, also in 2004 he presented the “Bartosz Hadala Group” at the IAJE Conference in Toronto (Canada). Bartosz currently resides in New York City where he pursues his career as a jazz pianist; he also holds a position of an organist at the St. Stanislaus Kostka American-Polish parish in Greenpoint (Brooklyn).
He manages to appear as a sideman with many different artists: up-and-coming saxophonist Ada Rovatti, Martha Wash, just to mention a few. Bartosz has also appeared on a very recent release by Laurent Medelgi “Diverses”. He made his debut at the legendary “Blue Note Jazz Club” in January, 2007, with Andrew Suvalsky Band. On April 1st, 2007, Mr. Hadala performed at the St. James Cathedral with his quintet featuring a jazz legend Mr. Billy Hart on drums.
And last but not least, in May 2006, Bartosz released his pop/jazz Christian album on Apria Records, where he simultaneously takes credit for music, lyrics, vocals and production of the album. |
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