Chamber music is one of the most beautiful fruits of our world’s musical culture. Artists playing in small line-ups share a bond unlike any other. We will discover this during a concert in which two violists – Poland’s Wojciech Kołaczyk and Chile’s Carola Fredes – will perform intriguing works by Jean Daniel Barahona, Piotr Klimek, and Przemysław Pujanek.

Carola Fredes is a violist and lecturer at the university in Talca, while Wojciech Kołaczyk works at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. In recent years, this duo has performed in this formation, among other venues, at viola conferences in Poznań and Paris, and as part of the May 3rd celebrations in Santiago, Chile. This extraordinary musical relationship is proof that today, as humanity, we all live in a global village, held together by, among other things, a shared understanding of art. As Kołaczyk claims, chamber music is “the essence, the core of music. Perhaps that’s where all music began”. It teaches attentiveness to others, sensitivity to their aesthetics and interpretations, and perhaps even compromise.

These two artists, sincerely committed to this performance philosophy, have chosen a repertoire through which they wish to demonstrate the bridges connecting two cultures – despite the rarity of mutual contacts between their countries. Chile will be represented by a piece by Jean Daniel Barahona. The title refers to Fredes’s native country. Szczecin-based Piotr Klimek’s composition, Jare Gody, alludes to a pre-Christian spring festival, later absorbed by Easter. The evening will culminate in the work of Przemysław Pujanek, also a violist and musician with the renowned Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. His Layers, based on melodies collected by Oskar Kolberg in Volhynia, were intended to illustrate the various stages of composition. We will also hear the duet for two violas and the sounds of the sea crying in the distance – El mar llora a lo lejos.