Marek Bracha and Michal Brulinski will conduct a series of 6 lectures with elements of concerts "Polish Piano: Art - Science - Craft". The meetings take place at the Komoda Hotel in Kalisz on the dates: October 12-13, November 9-10, November 30-December 1.
Marek Bracha - solo and chamber pianist, winner of many competitions, pedagogue, interpreter of music on historical instruments, juror of national and international music competitions. Curator of Polish music and culture abroad. Television and radio commentator, for many years invited as an expert by TVP Kultura, Polish Radio Program II and Polish Radio Chopin. Co-founder and curator of the annual chamber music festival WarszeMuzik, held in Warsaw's public spaces, in selected surviving pre-war courtyards in the Warsaw Ghetto area. Lecturer at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, pedagogue and deputy director of the music high school at ZPSM No. 1 in Warsaw. He regularly conducts workshops and masterclasses at home and abroad, including on historical pianos. He trained in Warsaw with Marzena Jasinska and Teresa Manasterska. He graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (2012) in the class of Alicja Paleta-Bugaj and Joanna Ławrynowicz-Just. He also completed a Masters of Music at the Royal College of Music in London in the class of Kevin Kenner (2011) and postgraduate studies in piano with Vanessa Latarche and historical instruments with Geoffrey Govier (2012).
Dr. Michal Brulinski - pianist, historian, literary scholar, cultural researcher and music critic. He graduated from Ewa Poblocka's piano class at the UMFC, history and the College of Artes Liberales at the UW. He is also a graduate of the Interdepartmental Doctoral Studies at the UW (AL-WH, 2023 - dissertation Object - symbol - fetish: on the phenomenon of the piano in Polish culture of the interwar period - publication by NIFC in the last quarter of 2024). He graduated with honors in all majors. As a pianist, he is the winner of several national piano and chamber music competitions. His competition-winning texts have been published by IPN, NIFC, ISPAN, UMFC Publishers, Music Quarterly, Res Facta Nova and Kronos, among others. As a journalist, he collaborated with, among others, the magazines Options, Ruch Muzyczny and Muzyka21, as well as the Polish Radio (PR II, Radio Chopin), and as an expert - with television (TVP Kultura), among others. He has been awarded for his scientific and artistic activities with scholarships from, among others, the Rectors of UW and UMFC and the IOC. Since 2012 he has been working with NIFC, since 2022 with NIMIT. Since 2017, he has been working as a lecturer at the UMFC, implementing, among other things, original teaching programs. He also teaches at the UW's home departments. As of 2019, he teaches a piano class at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Warsaw. In 2016-23 he was an assistant to Ewa Poblocka.
Dr. Michal Brulinski and Marek Bracha are experts in the field of romantic piano. Working together in the space of art, science, media and education, they have for years combined their passion for piano with their passion for piano research. Over the years they have collaborated in various fields - as lecturers at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, teachers at Warsaw music schools, journalists (Polish Radio) and experts (TVP Kultura). The duo began their artistic and educational activities in 2012 with the "Piano (R)evolutionary" project (2012-2014) for the Fryderyk Chopin National Institute. In 2023-2024, Bracha and Brulinski recorded a series of broadcasts with the same title for Polish Radio Chopin. In 2024 they jointly realized the project "Secrets of Chopin's Piano" for the National Institute of Music and Dance, which consisted of concert lectures in Polish philharmonics. Currently, they are implementing the grant "Historical piano and contemporary piano: in search of authenticity and aural aura" in the Mazovia region (multiple centers). The present endeavor represents another chord in the joint creative activities of the Bracha-Brulinski duo, certainly not the last.
The Association of Polish Piano Tuners is implementing the project "Polish Piano. Art - Science - Craft" subsidized by the National Institute of Music and Dance under Investment A2.5.1 Program to support the activities of cultural and creative industries entities to stimulate their development under the National Plan for Reconstruction and Increasing Resilience.
