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Duo del Gesú
Founded in 2010 by the French violinist Arnaud Kaminski and the Polish violist Krzysztof Tymendorf, the group Duo del Gesú won the first prize at the 25th Young Musician International Competition “Città di Barletta”. This success in Italy sparked off the international career of the group including performances all over the world, invitations to international festivals, congresses, and seminars, teaching in music workshops, and jury participation at music competitions. The artists—laureates of numerous international competitions, scholarships and prizes—mastered their skills in Paris, Vienna, Gdańsk and Göteborg, which encompassed study with such chamber music luminaries as Eberhard Feltz, and the quartets, Apollon Musagète Quartett and Quatuor Ebène. Eclectic and ever hungry for new ideas, they have worked with, amongst others, Christoph Hartmann (Berliner Philharmoniker), Bertrand Braillard (Orchestre national dÎle-de- France), Giuseppe Nova, Janusz Wawrowski, Joanna Woś, Tytus Wojnowicz, Mateusz Smoczyński, Antoine de Grolée, Maciej Gański, Bartosz Koziak, and NeoQuartet, as well as with the icon of Polish electronic music Władysław “Gudonis” Komendarek.
Duo del Gesù attach particular importance to undiscovered classical-period works. This period is characterized by an untapped legacy of compositions combining the violin with the viola by such composers as Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, Louis-Charles Ragué, Ignaz Pleyel and the “Paganini of the viola” Alessandro Rolla. In addition, the group performs contemporary and the very latest music including premieres of works dedicated to it by Polish and foreign composers, most notably, Thomas Emmanuel Cornelius, Maximilian Kreuz, Stephan Kühne, Tadeusz Dixa, Ewa Miriam Saczko, Kamil Cieślik, Gunnar Karel Màsson.
From 2012 Duo del Gesù serve as the artistic directors of the Gdańsk Euro Chamber Music Festival, which has been awarded the prestigious 2017-2020 EFFE (Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe) label. The group also conceived of the Baltic Music Workshops [Nadbałtyckie Warsztaty Muzyczne] and the Baltic Coast String Duets Competition [Nadbałtycki Konkurs Duetów Smyczkowych], a unique event in Europe for string duets whose aim is to promote young talent as well as the dissemination of duet repertoire. -
Programs
Works composed up to 1950.
Johann Sebastian Bach - Inventions BWV 772-786
- Little Preludes (transcription by Duo del Gesù)
- Goldberg Variations BWV 988 (transcription for Dymitr Sitkovetsky's string trio)
Johannes Brahms - Hungarian dances No. 1, 2, 5 (transcription by Duo del Gesù)
- Waltz opus 39 No. 15 (transcription by Duo del Gesù)
Jean-Baptiste Bréval - Duos opus 19
Max Bruch - Double concerto opus 88
Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni - Duos opus 4, 25
Jean-Baptiste Cartier - Potpourri patriote n°4
Giuseppe Maria Cambini - Duos opus 5
Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne No. 20 opus posthume (transcription by Duo del Gesù)
- Polonaise «Military» opus 40 No. 1 (transcription by Duo del Gesù)
Pierre Crémont - Concert duets opus 12
Claude Debussy - Moonlight from the Bergamasque Suite (transcription by Duo del Gesù)
- A girl with flaxen hair from Préludes I livre (transcription by Duo del Gesù)
- Romantic waltz (transcription by Duo del Gesù)
Antonín Dvořák - Slavic dance opus 72 No. 2 (transcription by Duo del Gesù)
- Humoresque opus 101 No. 7
Robert Fuchs - Duos opus 60
Georg Friedrich Haendel - Chaconne, HWV 435
Michael Haydn - Duets, P.127-130
Joseph Haydn - Sonates, Hob.VI:1-6
Franz Anton Hoffmeister - Duos opus 7, 13, 19, 65
Johan Halvorsen - Passacaglia
- Sarabande con variazioni
Marin Marais - Couplets de folies
Bohuslav Martinů - 3 Madrigals, H.313
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Duets K.423, 424
- 12 Duos K.487
- Divertimento for string trio K.563
Ignaz Pleyel - Grands Duets opus 69
- Duos opus 4, 46
Manuel Ponce - Sonata a duo
Vaclav Pichl - Duos opus 18
Louis Charles Ragué - Duos opus 11
Alessandro Rolla - Serenata per violino e viola accordata una terza sotto
- Sonata per viola con accompagnamento di violino
Franz Schubert - Erlkönig D. 328 (transcription by Duo del Gesù)
- Lob der Thränen D. 711 (transcription by Duo del Gesù)
- Ständchen D. 957 (transcription by Duo del Gesù)
Jean Sibelius - Duo
Ludwig Spohr - Duo opus 13
Carl Philipp Stamitz - Duos opus 10, 12, 18, 34
Contemporary and latest music
2019 Maximilian Kreuz - Freie Variationen über "Brunnquell' aller Güter" Wv. 89 [dedication to Duo del Gesú]
Stephan Kühne - Moment Musical [dedication to Duo del Gesú]
Kamil Cieślik - A due ! [dedication to Duo del Gesú]
Arnaud Kaminski / Krzysztof Komendarek-Tymendorf - Exodus
- Aurora
- Vagues ritournelles
2018 Gunar Kàrel Masson - Flæði IX [dedication to Duo del Gesú]
Ewa Miriam Saczko - Aforyzmy [dedication to Duo del Gesú]
2017 Tadeusz Dixa - Bagatele [dedication to Duo del Gesú]
2016 Thomas Emanuel Cornelius - Dawno temu [dedication to Duo del Gesú]
2015 Piotr Jędrzejczyk - Fraszka [dedication to Duo del Gesú]
2008 Krzysztof Penderecki - Ciaconna in memoriam Giovanni Paolo II
1992 Pascal Dusapin - Ohimé
1975 Mariusz Matuszewski - Duetti per violino e viola
1962 Witold Lutosławski - Bukoliki (transcription by Duo del Gesù)
Repertoire with orchestra
Carl Philipp Stamitz - Sinfonia concertante in D major
Max Bruch - Double Concerto in E minor, opus 88
Kurt Atterberg - Suite No. 3, opus 19 No. 1 for violin, viola and string orchestra
Arthur Benjamin - Romantic Fantasy for violin, viola and small orchestra
Georg Abraham Schneider - Sinfonia concertante in D major, opus 19
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sinfonia concertante in E flat major K. 364
Benjamin Britten - Double Concerto in B minor
Anna Rocławska-Musiałczyk - Oblivion
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Concerts
2021TBA - International Festival of Organ and Chamber Music in Wolsztyn
202027.12.2019
- 7.01.2020- CHINA Tournée
22.01.2020 - Austrian Cultural Forum, Warsaw, Poland
3.03.2020 - Barneville-Carteret, France
19.06.2020 - Organ-chamber concerts, Warsaw, Poland
20.06.2020 - II Biala Festival of Organ and Chamber Music, Biała Podlaska, Poland
21.06.2020 - IX Euro Chamber Music Festival, Gdańsk, Poland
21.06.2020 - 13th International Festival of Organ and Chamber Music in Łuków, Poland
28.06.2020 - VI Baltic String Duo Competition, Gdańsk, Poland
1-2.07.2020 - IV Baltic Music Workshops, Gdańsk, Poland
5.07.2020 - Polish Rising Music Stars, Gdańsk, Poland
26.07.2020 - 13th International Festival of Organ and Chamber Music in Kalisz, Poland
24.10.2020 - III Braniewska Organ Autumn in Braniewo, Poland
201926.01.2019 - Château Yverdon-les-Bains
Geneva, Switzerland
28.05.2019 - 1st Beskid Classic Festival "Cavatina Classics"
Bielsko-Biała, Poland
6.06.2019 - Dworek Sierakowskich, Sopot, Poland
14.06.2019 - 17th Wörthersee Classics Festival
Klagenfurt, Austria
16.06.2019 - 45th Anniversary of the Polish Institute in Vienna, Austria
Szymon Nehring - piano
21.06.2019 -
8. EURO CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVALGdańsk, Poland
29.06.2019 - V Baltic String Duo Competition - jury
Gdansk, Poland
july 2019 - 5. Music Festival
5. Małopolska Talent Academy in Łąck, Poland
1-2.07.2019 - III Baltic Music Workshops
09.07.2019 - Spectrum Chamber Music Festival
Ljubljana, Slovenie
10.07.2019 - XVI Alba Music Festival, Italy
11.07.2019 - Bergamo, Monastero del Carmine, (Włochy)
21.09.2019 - VII Lower Silesian Music Festival, Stronie Śląskie - Chapel of St. Onofrio, Poland
22.09.2019 - V Chamber and Organ Music Festival of the Legionowski District 2019, Nieporęt, Poland
26.09.2019 -
European Solidarity Center, Gdańsk
Cappella Gedanensis, Magdalena Pawlisz - conductor, Arnaud Kaminski - violin, Krzysztof Komendarek-Tymendorf - viola, Kurt Atterberg - Suite No. 3, op. 19 No. 1 for violin, viola and string orchestra (Polish premiere)
29.09.2019 - Jan Matejko's manor house, "Evenings with Stanisław Wyspiański", Cracow, Poland
5-6.10.2019 - Klagenfurt, Austria
22.10.2019 - 10th MAGfestival, Split, Croatia
201812.05.2018 - Oliwa's Town Hall of Culture in Gdansk
03.06.2018 - Alba Music Festival, Italy
21.06.2018 - St. Catherine's Church in Gdańsk, 7. Euro Chamber Music Festival, Poland
21.06.2018 - St. Catherine's Church in Gdańsk, 7. Euro Chamber Music Festival, Poland
01.07.2018 - Baltic String Duo Competition in Gdansk
Jury
02-04.07.2018 - Baltic Music Workshops
Masterclasses
08.07.2018 - Lower Silesian Music Festival
12.07.2018 - Władysławowo, 46. International Music Festival "Summer Organ and Chamber Concerts", Poland
15.07.2018 - Museum of Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński in Pran, forester, Poland
18.07.2018 - Cathedral in Pelplin, Poland
22.07.2018 - Koronowo, Poland
27.07.2018 - Concert at the Palace of Art in Krakow
29.07.2018 - 9th Puplinge Classique Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
15.08.2018 - Grande Chapelle du CAD in Coutances, France
16.08.2018 - Abbaye de Mondaye, France
17.08.2018 - Église Saint Clément in Cherbourg, France
18.08.2018 - Église in Saint-Sauveur-Lendelin, France
19.08.2018 - Festival Musiques à Pontorson, France
15.09.2018
- 21.10.2018- II Concerts in the Świdnica Region
04.11.2018 - Le Moulin d'Andé, France
7.11.2018 - University of Sorbonne in Paris
18.11.2018 - New Waves - 4th Festival of Contemporary Music, Gdansk, Poland
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03.09.2017 Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows in Stary Wielisław
Chamber concert as part of the Lower Silesian Music Festival13.08.2017 Church in Osseja, France
Festival Itinerant de musica – Les cles du Classique16.07.2017 Church of St. Wojciech in Gdansk, 6. Euro Chamber Music Festival, Poland 14.07.2017 Church of St. Joseph in Gdansk,
6. Euro Chamber Music Festival, Poland02.07.2017 Drewniany Zabytkowy Kościół, Sierakowice, Poland
7. Summer Chamber Music Festival29.06.2017 Dworek Sierakowskich in Sopot, chamber concert, Poland 06.10.2016 Cremona, Italy, 43. International Viola Congress 8.07.2016 Church of St. Wojciech in Gdansk, 5. Euro Chamber Music Festival, Poland 19.06.2016 Kamieniec Palace, Chamber hall, Lower Silesian Music Festival, Poland 18.06.2016 Roman catholic parish of St Urban I in Zielona Góra, Poland 21.06.2015 Empik in Baltic Gallery, Gdansk, Poland 21.06.2015 St. Catherine church in Gdansk,
chamber concert „Wariat`s Variations”, 4. Euro Chamber Music Festival, Poland07.05.2015 Bari, Italy
Chamber concert03.05.2015 Paris, France
Chamber concert11.09.2013 Music Academy in Krakow, Concert hall,
41. International Viola Congress, Poland10.09.2013 Krakow Culture Center, Camber concert, Poland 05.07.2013 American Corner in Gdansk, Chamber concert „3M” 01.07.2013 Uphagen's House in Gdansk, Chamber concert, Poland 21.06.2013 Church of St. Nicolas in Gdansk, 2. Euro Chamber Music Festival, Poland 18.05.2013 Gdansk Town Hall, chamber concert, Poland 27.03.2013 The Great Mill in Gdansk, Poland
Chamber concert „Mozart and his europe”26.03.2013 The Great Mill in Gdansk, Poland
Chamber concert „Wien, Mannheim & Moravia”24.11.2012 Gdansk Town Hall, Chamber concert „Golden Baroque and Classic”, Poland 20.11.2012 Gdansk Town Hall, Chamber concert „En vrac”, Poland 24.09.2012 Gdansk Town Hall, Chamber concert „Golden Baroque and Classic”, Poland 20.09.2012 Gdansk Town Hall, Chamber concert „En vrac”, Poland 08.09.2012 Mariacka Street in Gdansk, Chamber concert, Poland 18.07.2012 Cathedral in Pelplin, XIV International Organ Music Festival, Poland 14.06.2012 Gdansk Town Hall, Chamber concert „Vienna in the center of Gdansk”, 1. Euro Chamber Music Festival, Poland 07.06.2012 Dworek Sierakowskich in Sopot, Concert Hall, Poland 16.02.2012 Austrian Culture Forum, Concert Hall in Warsaw, Poland 05.06.2011 Top Trendy Sopot Festival
Concert - Duo del Gesú, Honorata "Honey" Skarbek
