Upcoming and Recent Engagements:
December 3rd and 4th
Various composers: "A Victorian Christmas" Chamber Concert Tour in Virginia with the Rainier Trio
Featuring Brahms' Opus 91 (Two songs for Alto, viola and piano), Charles Loeffler, Rebecca Clarke, Frank Bridge and Various Christmas Carols
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Saturday, December 3, 7:00 PM
Wytheville Concert Series
"A Victorian Christmas"
St. John’s Episcopal Church, 275 East Main Street, Wytheville, VA
$10 for adults, children and WCC students are free
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Sunday, December 4, 3:30 PM
Chatham Concert Series
"A Victorian Christmas"
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 66 North Main Street, Chatham, VA
Admission by donation at the door
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Saturday, November 5, 7:30 PM
Pusey Room Recital Series at Harvard University
An Evening of International Song Chamber Recital
Frank E. Warren: Chicago Poems (cycle for mezzo and piano), with pianist Mark McNeill;
Frank E. Warren: Drei Lieder (for mezzo, violin and cello), with violinist Helen Sherrah-Davies and cellist Kari H. Juusela
Pusey Room, Memorial Church, Harvard University (Harvard Yard), Cambridge, MA
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October 2, 2011, 4PM
John Harbison: World Premiere
The Right to Pleasure: 4 New Songs set to poetry by Jessica Fisher
Recital with pianist Mark McNeill.
Harvard Memorial Church, Cambridge MA
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June 15th – July 2nd,2011
Various concerts: Virginia Tech University Vocal Music Festival,performances as part of the International Vocal Arts Institute, Virginia
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011, 8PM
DEBUT: Ojai Music Festival
Libbey Bowl, Ojai, California
Katarzyna performs alongside fellow Bard alumni and Dawn Upshaw:
Dawn Upshaw presents prize graduates of her Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard College in an intimate and informal Evening Musicale of solos, duets, and vocal ensembles, featuring classical works and folk song arrangements, culminating in a grand finale for everyone. The wide-ranging program includes music by Purcell, Faure,Messiaen, Szymanowski, Copland, Britten, Berio, and Grainger. A special highlight will be several songs by emerging composer David Bruce, composed especially for the Bard program
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MAY 27th, 2011, 8:30 PM
KATARZYNA SADEJ AND MARK MCNEILL
A SPRING EVENING RECITAL IN BOSTON
Featuring Brahms, Fauré, Haydn and a luscious selection of varied songs and arias!
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May 15th, 2011, 3PM
Bard Conservatory of Music and Fisher Center:
Dawn Upshaw and Friends
Bard College Conservatory of Music Benefit Concert Alum Katarzyna Sadej performs Szymanowski, Chausson & some wonderful ensemble pieces with DawnUpshaw and current students of Bard Vocal Arts with Kayo Iwama and the pianists of the Postgraduate Collaborative Piano Fellows Program
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April 29, 2011, 8PM
Benefit for Boston's First Church, Boston
Jimmy Tingle Fundraising Auction Event, First Church/ Boston-April 29, 2011:Katarzyna Sadej and Mark McNeill to donate a recital performance based on bids!
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MARCH 2011
French Recital Tour in Serbia & Montenegro:
Various Composers: Recital with pianists Nada Kolundzija and Aleksej Molcanov. 5-City Tour of All-French Recital program, including Quebecois folksongs, Debussy, Faure, Berlioz, Rigacci, Bizet, & Roussel, for the Festivale de la Francophonie in Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. March 20-30, 2011
March 22nd, 8PM RECITAL: Guarnerius Art Centre, Belgrade
March 23rd, 4PM Teaching Workshop with Vocal Students at High Music School, Podgorica
March 24th, 8PM RECITAL: Montenegrin National Theatre, Podgorica
March 26th, 7PM RECITAL: Hall of Music School – Holy Spirit Church, Kotor
March 28th, 8PM RECITAL: Subotica City Hall, Subotica
March 29th, 5PM Teaching Workshop with Vocal Students of the Belgrade High Music School, Belgrade
March 30th, 8PM RECITAL: The Synagogue of Novi Sad, Novi Sad
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February 11th, 2011: 3:15 - 4pm & 4:30 - 6pm
Presentation with composer Tom Cipullo
Performing "Glances" cycle with pianist Mark McNeill
Longy School of Music
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FEBRUARY 6th and 13th, 2011
KATARZYNA SADEJ AND MARK MCNEILL
AFTERNOON OF SONGS RECITAL IN BOSTON
Tchaikovsky National Museum Academy
for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
With the Lviv Philharmonic
September 26, 2010, 7:30 PM
Recital with Marianna Humetska, piano featuring Chopin, Moniuszko, Karlowicz, Sibelius, Szymanowski and others
World Premiere of Michael Pepa's "Liliane"
for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
September 22, 2010
GUARNERIUS Recital in Belgrade, Serbia:
Performing and working with renowned pianists, American composers and vocal instructors, including a performance with pianist Martin Katz of Jean Sibelius' Opus 37, and workshops with Tom Cipullo, Lori Laitman, John Musto, Jake Heggie, John Harbison and Ben Moore
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Featuring a world premiere performance of Sharbel Dalal's Parallel, with poetry written by Kasia.
Also featuring works by Karlowicz, Moniuszko, Szymanowski, Sibelius, Weill, Berlioz and Morales...
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Recital of early Samuel Barber Songs
With pianist Matthew Odell
Bruno Walter Auditorium
March 6, 2010, 8PM
Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben
Schumann Festival In Boston with Pianist Max Levinson
February 26th and 28th, 2010
Opera-Triptych Performances at the Richard B.Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY:
Kasia performs lead role of Isabelle Eberhart in Missy Mazzoli's new opera Song from the Uproar, and Maman and La Libellule in Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges
Conducted by James Bagwell and directed by Dan Rigazzi
Friday, February 26th 8PM
and Sunday, February 28th 3PM
Cartagena International Music Festival - January 9-16, 2010
Mozart's Requiem - Alto Soloist, City of London Sinfonia; Stuart Stratford, Cond.
De Falla's Siete Canciones Populares Espanolas, with Ricardo C. Sefair, guitar
Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben, with Max Levinson, piano
*All events nationally televised on Colombian television
James Levine and Dawn Upshaw
Program of Songs by Dawn Upshaw and Singers of the Vocal Arts Program
St. Regis Hotel, Two East 55th Street at Fifth Avenue, New York, New York
Cocktails – 6:30 PM
Program and Dinner – 7:30 PM
November 8, 2009, 3 PM
Conducted by Harold Farberman
November 3, 2009, 8PM
Concert with Katarzyna Sadej, sopranos Megan Taylor and Ariadne Greif, and Liang-Yu Wang, piano
Hudson Opera House (New York State's oldest surviving theater)
327 Warren St., Hudson, NY
Bard Vocal Arts Singers Group Recital
Olin Auditorium, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
September 20, 2009, 8 PM
"The Lordly Hudson" Vocal Music Inspired by Rivers
Bard Vocal Arts Singers Group Recital
Prelude to the Cartagena International Music Festival
National Arts Center Summer Music Festival
Corigliano's Irish Folksong Settings for Voice and Flute
with flutist Garret Hudson
Tabaret Hall, at University of Ottawa
550 Cumberland St., Ottawa, ON
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Wagner's Wesendonk Lieder
with Frank Corliss, piano
Wethersfield Estate, Amenia, NY
Purcell's Rejoice in the Lord Alway
with the Berkshire Bach Society and James Bagwell, cond., First Congregational Church, Great Barrington (Berkshires), MA
May 9, 2009, 7:30 PM
CARNEGIE HALL DEBUT!!
Osvaldo Golijov and Dawn Upshaw Young Artists Concert
PAOLA PRESTINI :Oceanic Verses (World Premiere; commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, 57th Street & 7th Avenue, New York, New York
LES AMIS ENSEMBLE EUROPEAN TOUR:
CANADA DAY at 25th Music Biennale Zagreb
Croatian International Festival of Contemporary Music
Thursday, April 23, 2009
10:00 pm - Concert Hall Vatroslav Lisinski, Zagreb, Croatia
Viktorija Cop: (Croatia) Display (2009)
Marko Ruzdjak: (Croatia) Libanon, mine and yours (1985) for mezzo-soprano, reciter and two percussionists
Michael Pepa: (Canada) ISOMORPHE (2008) for voice, violin, accordion and CANTUS ENSEMBLE
Sada Britvic, Conductor
Friday, April 24th – Belgrade, Serbia GUARNERIUS Concert Hall
Respighi: Il tramonto with The Penderecki Quartet
Sunday, April 26th – Timisoara, Romania
At "Capitol" concert hall - 7:00 p.m.
Presented by Banatul Philharmonic Timisoara
Ottorino Respighi: Il tramonto with The Penderecki Quartet
Michael Pepa: String Quartet No.4 with timpani & chimes (1994) with The Penderecki Quartet
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April 19, 3pm
Respighi's Il Tramonto
with String Quartet, Bard Conservatory
Bard College, Olin Auditorium, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
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April 5th, 2009, 3:00 PM
Mendelssohn's Die Erste Walpurgisnacht (contralto soloist)
Conductor: Leon Botstein
Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College: Sosnoff Theater
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York