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SUMMARY:Andrzej Ciepliński Makes His Carnegie Hall Debut with American Composers Orchestra
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DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, October 27, 2026 at 7:30 PM Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall57th
Street and Seventh Avenue, New York 
American Composers OrchestraKedrick Armstrong, ConductorDaniel Bernard
Roumain, Electric ViolinTracy Silverman, Electric ViolinVân-Ánh Võ, Dan
BauAndrzej Ciepliński, Clarinet
Program:DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN America, To Usfor Electric Violins and
Orchestra (New York Premiere)OSWALD HUỲNH New Workfor Vietnamese
Traditional Instruments and Orchestra (World Premiere)ALEXANDER TIMOFEEV
New Work (World Premiere)MALI IRENE Deliverancefor Orchestra and Community
Music Making (World Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)ALEX WEISER
Tfilesfor Clarinet and Orchestra (U.S. Premiere)
On October 27 at Carnegie Hall, American Composers Orchestra, one of the
country’s leading new-music ensembles, presents an evening of five new
works by American composers, led by conductor Kedrick Armstrong. The
program features electric violinists Daniel Bernard Roumain and Tracy
Silverman, đàn bầu artist Vân-Ánh Võ, and Polish clarinetist Andrzej
Ciepliński, who appears as soloist in the U.S. premiere of Alex Weiser’s
“Tfiles (Prayers).”
These new works explore the ways in which music brings people together in
specific settings, from memorials and weddings to town halls and street
dances. By exploring music from these gatherings on the Zankel Hall concert
stage, they reframe the idea of a “concert gathering” and offer a
unique window into this nearly universal human experience.
Among the evening’s premieres is Alex Weiser’s “Tfiles (Prayers),”
a clarinet concerto performed by Polish soloist Andrzej Ciepliński.
Inspired by three Yiddish-language poems by Kadya Molodowsky, the work
reimagines the concerto as a series of musical prayers, moving from a plea
for vitality, through a search for the unknown divine, to a final hymn to
nature. The piece was commissioned by the POLIN Museum of the History of
Polish Jews for its Warsaw premiere with the Polish Radio Symphony
Orchestra, and co-funded by Poland’s Ministry of Culture and National
Heritage through the “Composers’ Commissions” program implemented by
the National Institute of Music and Dance.
Program Note:Tfiles (Prayers) A concerto for clarinet and orchestra
In her three Yiddish-language poems titled “Tfiles” (“Prayers”),
Kadya Molodowsky reimagines what a Jewish prayer can be. Rather than
presenting prayer as a collective ritual search for the divine, Molodowsky
frames it as a personal, individual quest that moves beyond orthodox
belief. Drawing on these poems, Alex Weiser’s concerto transforms the
clarinet into a searching voice: intimate, lyrical, and expansive.
The first movement becomes a prayer for endurance and vitality; the second
turns inward, yearning toward the unknown; and the final movement opens
outward, finding spiritual resonance in the natural world.
Andrzej Ciepliński, Clarinet
Andrzej Ciepliński is a Polish clarinetist acclaimed for his original
interpretations and exceptional musical sensitivity. As a soloist, he has
performed with leading orchestras including Sinfonieorchester Basel, the
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonietta Cracovia, the M.
Karłowicz Philharmonic in Szczecin, and the Polish Radio Orchestra.
An active chamber musician, he has collaborated with artists such as Julian
Rachlin, Claudio Bohórquez, Janusz Wawrowski, Sào Soulez Larivière,
Tymoteusz Bies, Szymon Nehring, and Anastasia Kobekina. Continuing the
legacy of his grandfather, the legendary Polish trombonist Juliusz
Pietrachowicz, Ciepliński is committed to expanding the clarinet
repertoire through collaborations with composers and new arrangements.
In 2024, he performed the world premiere of Alex Weiser’s clarinet
concerto “Tfiles,” written for him and presented at the POLIN Music
Festival. His debut album, “Irrberge” (DUX, 2022), featuring his own
transcription of Debussy’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, was nominated for
a 2023 Fryderyk Award.
A recipient of a Kościuszko Foundation scholarship, Ciepliński completed
a residency at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York, where he
developed “Disturb the Silence,” a concert project exploring the
history of Jewish musicians from Galicia, with mentorship from David
Krakauer.
He graduated with honors from the Hochschule für Musik in Basel in the
class of François Benda and studied with Arkadiusz Adamski at the Karol
Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, where he was awarded the title
Primus Inter Pares. 
Learn more: Andrzej Ciepliński
Alex Weiser, Composer
Alex Weiser is a New York–based composer praised for his “knack for
crafting music that is at once historically rooted and of its moment” by
The New Yorker. His work often reflects on cultural inheritance, Jewish
history, Yiddish literature, sanctity, and the transience of life,
combining expansive musical gestures with deeply expressive lyricism.
Weiser’s debut album, “and all the days were purple,” sets Yiddish
and English poetry to music and was named a 2020 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in
Music. Released by Cantaloupe Music, the album has been praised for its
meditative, spiritual, and emotionally direct musical language.
His second album, “in a dark blue night,” released in 2024, features
two song cycles performed by mezzo-soprano Annie Rosen with instrumental
ensemble. The works evoke New York City at night and the Jewish immigrant
world of Coney Island in the 1930s and 1940s.
Active as an opera composer, Weiser recently premiered “The Great
Dictionary of the Yiddish Language,” written with librettist Ben Kaplan.
Set in post-war New York, the chamber opera follows Yiddish linguist Yudel
Mark as he works to create the world’s first comprehensive Yiddish
dictionary — an act of preservation, memory, and renewal.
Weiser is currently developing “Tevye’s Daughters” with librettist
Stephanie Fleischmann, a commission from American Lyric Theater based on
Sholem Aleichem’s iconic stories. 
Learn more: Alex Weiser
Andrzej Ciepliński’s appearance is supported by the Polish Cultural
Institute New York.
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