SEASON 2

Episode 3: Mazurkas II

Coming in May 2025!

Special guests explore different facets of Chopin’s Mazurkas.

Featuring

Janusz Prusinowski

Janusz Prusinowski Kompania

In the early 1990s, Janusz Prusinowski took part in the foundation of Dom Tańca (Dance House) in Warsaw – an association dedicated to research, documentation, but most of all, performance of traditional music and dance in its most faithful and purest form. The folk dance revival movement reaches back to the 1960s and ‘70s, when dance activists were inspired by similar institutions springing up throughout Europe (the first dance houses were founded in Hungary). Since 2010, Prusinowski has been the co-organizer of the Wszystkie Mazurki Świata (Mazurkas of the World) Festival, which comprises, apart from dance parties and concerts, workshops and the Instruments’ Fair, showcasing traditional and experimental instruments made by luthiers from all over Poland.


Chelsea Guo

5th prize, 2020 US National Chopin Competition

Chelsea Guo stands out as a remarkable new musical artist, equally inspired as both a classical pianist and a soprano. ​“Here is a rare talent,” exclaimed BBC Music Magazine upon the 2021 release of Chelsea’s debut recording, Chopin in My Voice, featuring interpretations of a range of Chopin’s piano compositions augmented by performances of several of the composer’s songs. Chelsea won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 2022 as both pianist and vocalist – the double award a first in YCA history. Her career is flowering internationally, including her participation in such prominent music festivals as Germany’s Moritzburg Festival, Italy’s Fazioli Piano Festival and Spain’s Sociedad Filarmónica de A Coruña, alongside performances at New York’s Carnegie Hall and London’s Wigmore Hall.