The concert ‘Chopin and his Europe’ on 5 March 2023 at 16.30 closing the Masterclasses preparing for the 2^nd International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments will bring together on the big stage of the Brussels Conservatories two generations of musicians, the masters, Piet Kuijken, Edoardo Torbianelli and Wojciech Świtała and young artists, who have attended the masterclasses. This concert is intended to highlight the sonic beauty of pianos from Chopin’s period and to give young musicians the opportunity to develop their talent.

Romantic music composed by Fryderyk Chopin – the poet of the piano, will be executed on instruments from the composer’s period, – Pleyel 1845, Gross 1840 from the collection of the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel and Erard 1836 and Pleyel 1843 from the Chris Maene Collection.

Concert programme:

Piet Kuijken
Fryderyk Chopin
    Preludes, Op. 28 (selection)

Edoardo Torbianelli
Fryderyk Chopin
    Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 6 No. 2
    Polonaise in C sharp minor, Op. 26 No. 2
    Nocturne in A flat major, Op. 32 No. 2

Wojciech Świtała
Fryderyk Chopin
    Mazurkas, Op. 24

Students
Programme to be confirmed
Duration: 70 minutes, without pause

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Music Talk: with Piet Kuijken, Edoardo Torbianelli, Wojciech Świtała. Waldo Geuns, moderator (in English)
Waldo Geuns is a pianist, philosopher and musicologist, professor at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel. 
Duration: 30 minutes

5 March 2023 at 16.30 

Concert Hall of the Brussels Conservatories, Regentschapsstraat 30 / rue de la Regence 30, 1000 Brussels
Tickets: 10€, students 5€, free for all KCB students and teachers and the participants of the masterclasses
Reservation possible via the website of the KCB.