Berg Orchestra – Wurlitzer Night
Contemporary music performed by the BERG Orchestra - premiere concert and opening event of the 25th anniversary season. The outstanding Polish pianist Piotr Orzechowski, also known as Pianohooligan, appears in the Czech Republic for the very first time. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music and winner of the Montreaux Jazz Solo Piano Competition, he will perform the Czech premiere of works written especially for him. His fingertips will sweep across the keyboard of an extraordinary instrument, the Wurlitzer analogue synthesizer. It will also be played by the young pianist Pavol Praženica, laureate of most Czech and many international competitions. The accompanying event offers interesting facts about analogue synthesizers.
18:45 – Wurlitzer? Wurlitzer! (introduction by Milan Guštar)
Programme:
- Zygmunt Krauze: Rondo (Czech premiere)
- Marcin Stańczyk: A Due (Czech premiere)
- Aleksander Nowak: Naninana (Czech premiere)
- Henryk Górecki: Concerto for (harpsichord) Wurlitzer & strings
Performers:
- Piotr Orzechowski aka Pianohooligan – Wurlitzer piano
- Pavol Praženica – Wurlitzer piano
- Orchestr BERG & Peter Vrábel – conductor
The Berg Orchestra is an excellent Czech ensemble specialized in the performance of contemporary music. Since its inception it has commissioned and premiered more than two hundred new works. In 2021, it won the prestigious Prix Italia award for the Czech Republic for the first time in more than half a century.
