Piano concert on the occasion of the Chopin Year
25.11.2021
As part of the celebration of the Chopin Year, on November 24, 2021, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Dar es Salaam organized, in cooperation with the Embassy of Germany, a piano concert performed by the outstanding Polish pianist Jan Krzysztof Broja.
The concert began with Ambassador Krzysztof Buzalski recalling Chopin's work and summarizing this year's 18th edition of the Chopin Competition, as well as presenting the achievements of the invited artist.
Jan Krzysztof Broja is one of the most outstanding European pianists, participant of the 13th Chopin Competition in 1995, who won many awards at international piano competitions, incl. in Hanau in Germany (1989), Braunschweig in Germany (1991), Bucharest in Romania (1995), Warsaw (1995), Vilnius in Lithuania (1999) and Pasadena / Los Angeles in the USA (2002). In 2009, he was nominated as the first Polish pianist in Los Angeles for the highest music award, the Grammy Award of the American Phonographic Academy.
The artist is also known for his involvement in several important television and cinema film productions. The most important of them is Broja's work for the film "The Pianist" (2002) directed by Roman Polański, awarded with three Oscars and a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Jan Krzysztof Broja also recorded the piano part on the soundtrack to several other important cinema works, such as the film "Tatarak" (2009) directed by Andrzej Wajda.
During the concert, the artist presented: the Nocturne, Op. 62 No. 1 and 2, mazurkas op. 59 and the preludes, Op. 28, as well as the Sonata E-major Op. 109, which met with a lively ovation from the audience. The event was attended by the Polish community, numerous ambassadors and high commissioners as well as representatives of local government and business circles.
