Keyboard to Heaven
Fryderyk Chopin, Bill Evans, Ray Manzarek... even though they inhabit completely different musical worlds, they are joined by the fact that they were all masters of the piano. On the 88th day of the year (hardly a random number, since that’s the number of keys on a grand piano), we celebrate a festival gathering fans of a variety of sounds enchanted out of the piano and other keyboard instruments.
The first Cracovian Piano Day lasts... four days, from 26 to 29 March. It starts with two club recitals at BAL in the Zabłocie district: the jazzman Kuba Płużek performs with three keyboards (piano alongside the electroacoustic Wurlitzer and Fender Rhodes), while Vitaliy Ivanov combines piano performance with the saxophone, sketching improvised musical portraits of random audience members. On the third day, the Magnus Music Shop resounds with music by Chopin performed by Mateusz Mateja. The organisers host the finale, filled with electronic experiments, at the InfraSound recording studio featuring the Weronika Mietelska Duo and Nikodem Dybiński.
Igor Kuranda, Karnet magazine
26 March 2017, 6pm, BAL
Kuba Płużek
Tickets: PLN 15
27 March 2017, 8pm, BAL
Vitaliy Ivanov
Tickets: PLN 15
28 March 2017, 7pm, Magnus Music Shop, ul. Surzyckiego 16
Mateusz Mateja
Free invitations available at BAL, limited number of seats
29 March 2017, 7:30pm, InfraSound studio, ul. Sarego 7
Weronika Mietelska Duo & Nikodem Dybiński
Free invitations available at BAL, limited number of seats
