The Polish cellist Anna Mikulska and the French-Spanish pianist Philippe Argenty wish to gather the music of their roots and their respective sensibilities in a program that will make you travel from Armenia to South America, but also from Eastern Europe to Spain and Paris… This second musical world tour offered by the Duo Fortecello is breathtaking of diversity and virtuosity. The show is performed by two musicians, whose experiences through the most prestigious European Institutions brought them a cosmopolite and universal vision of the music.

To resume, the main goal of Duo Fortecello is to reconcile the largest audience with classical music, to make it live again and to propose concerts that are light, colorful and joyful.

This young duo has already performed in France, Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Hungary and Norway during last three years and will be invited in Germany, Poland, Belgium, Austria and other places. In March 2018 they will play as a soloists with San Remo orchestra the outstanding concerto/fantasia for cello, piano and orchestra by Theodor Dubois.

Anna Mikulska-Argenty - Cello, started her music studies when she was 6. In 2005, she starts at the Music Academy in Cracow, Poland, her hometown. In 2007, she also studies at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris in Paul Julien’s class. She receives advices from famous cellists such as Anner Bylsma, Arto Noras or Franz Helmerson and others. In 2010, she obtains a Master’s degree in Arts, as well as a Cello Aptitude Certificate.

Since 2005, she has been playing in solo with the Symphonic Orchestra of Cracow Music Academy and the Young Philharmonic Orchestra. Meanwhile, she is the privileged partner of chamber music, in quartet, in trio, in quintet and in duo. She has been part of the Cracow Royal Quartet in Poland from 2007 to 2009 and has formed the Quator Volubilis in 2011, with which she performs since then.

She also played in the orchestra of the famous English violonist Nigel Kennedy “Orchestra of Life” with whom she will participate in a European Tour of more than 30 dates in such a famous music halls as Berlin Philharmonie, Royal Albert Hall, Southbank Centre and Palais de Congrès de Paris.

Philippe Argenty Pianist,  enters the Music Academy in 2000 and in 2003 he decides to go to Paris in order to focus on music and piano. In 2005, after two years of formation in Paris, he joins the Conservatori Superior de Musica of Liceu in Barcelona, where he studies with the pianist and instructor Stanislav Pochekin. There, he obtains a diploma in “Piano Performance” in 2011 and he receives the best possible mark for the interpretation of the Franz Liszt 2nd Concerto for piano and orchestra.

In 2005, he is awarded with the 2nd prize at the Grand Concours International de Piano in Paris, at the Cortot Hall.

Since 2004, he has performed in France, Norway, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Spain and Andorra in solo or in chamber music.

In 2011, he does a concert tour in solo with the Barcelona orchestra “ConjuntXXI” where he performs the Franz Liszt 2nd Concerto for piano and orchestra.

"DUO FORTECELLO" 

Anna Mikulska-Argenty - Cello
Philippe Argenty - Piano
(France)

Tarnów,  Mirror Hall, ul. Wałowa 10
25.09.2020 r. - at 7pm  

Anna Mikulska-Argenty - Cello
Philippe Argenty - Piano

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Program:

F.Chopin - Nokturn Nr 9 Op.2
 

J. Brahms - Sonata Nr 2 F-Dur Op.99

1. Allegro vivace

2. Adagio affettuoso

3. Allegro appassionato

4. Allegro
    

H.Vieuxtemps - Elegia Op.30
 

F.Chopin - Introdukcja and Polonaise Brillante C-dur Op.3
 

C. Saint-Saëns - Dance of death  op.40