MIKOŁAJ ANTCZAK – director of the Forma Foundation Publishing
House, classic philologist, translator.
MAURO BATTISTI - double-bass player,
composer. Born in Rome, 1963. He has studied guitar, piano and double-bass
at the ‘G.Rossini’ Conservatory, Pesaro. Following master-classes with Stafford
James, he continued his jazz training with Curtis Lundy and, in New York, with
Buster Williams and Victor Gaskin. Since the 80’s, he has performed in all of
the principle Italian jazz clubs, theatres and jazz festivals. He has also
performed in Denmark, Sweden (the Kristianstad jazz festival), Switzerland,
Germany, New York and the Lebanon (Heineken Jazz Festival). In 1988, playing
with the Toni Pancella Trio, he won the first national jazz contest
organized by Rome’s ‘Music Inn’, and in 1989, with the band Tetracolours,
the Forli Jazz contest. An exceptionally experienced bass player, Mauro
Battisti has amongst his credits a number of collaborations with such noted
jazz musicians as: Lee Konitz, Benny Golson, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Mark Murphy,
Wild Bill Davidson, Earl Warren, Joe Pass, Joe Diorio, Massimo Urbani, Steve
Grossman, Mike Melillo, Al. Cohn, Gianni Basso, Pete Malinverni, Houston
Person, Barry Harris, Etta Jones, Al. Grey, Joe Newman, Kim Parker, Rosario
Giuliani, Xavier Girotto, Jay Clayton, Andrzej Kurylewicz, Wanda Warska, Jerry
Granelli, Tony Scott, Ettore Fioravanti, John Mosca, Jimmy Lovelace, Tom Artin,
Carl Potter, Leroy Williams, George Masso, Sonny Costanzo, Sal Nistico, Robin
Kenyatta, Bob Wilber, Marcello Rosa, Bob Mover, Tom Kirkpatrick, Ronnie Cuber and
Cedar Walton. In great demand for his versatility, he has appeared on several
albums as a sideman, on numerous Radio and Television productions, and in the
realisation of various soundtracks. His collaborations have extended to the
theatre, and to the combination of jazz with recitation, poetry and dance.
Since 1997, he has been co-leader of the Velotti-Battisti Jazz Ensemble.
In 1998, the VBJE recorded in NewYork with the American pianist Pete
Malinverni. In 1998 they also completed a CD dedicated to Giacomo Leopardi,
featuring the voice of the renowned Italian actor Arnoldo Foà, and in
1999 a CD connecting Jazz and Multimedia. Mauro Battisti is also a composer,
and a tutor of Double-Bass and Modern Harmony. Since 1999 he colaborates with
Gabriela Kurylewicz and is one of the musical directors of Forma – Theatre.
VIVIAN BOLAND OP – philosopher, theologian.
Director of Aquinas Institute in Oxford.
MARCO BRUNO – poet, translator, esseist.
MAGDA FORTECKA – painter, translator.
Born in Zakopane, now living in Warsaw. She has studied English philology at
the University of Warsaw. She learned the technique of painting on glass in
Zakopane from Jan Jachimiak and Jan Kosiński. She spent the late 1980’s in
California, and became a member of the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto. In
1990, she won the Polish ‘Painting On Glass’ competition. Since the late 1980’s
she has exhibited in Chicago (Jazowsko Wooden Gallery), Warsaw (Piwnica
Artystyczna Kurylewiczów), Paris (St. Peter’s Church), St. Cheron, France
(Galeria Chateaux du Marais), Jonzac, France (Galeria Cloitre des Carnes),
Zakopane (Galeria YAM and Muzeum Tatrzańskie), Mexico (Monterrey Cultural
Centre and Puebla Cultural Centre), London (Institute of Polish Culture),
Katowice (Archdiocese Museum), Konin (Regional Muzeum).
WACŁAW HOLEWIŃSKI – writer.
Vice-president of SPP (Polish Writers Association).
ANDRZEJ JAGODZIŃSKI – pianist, composer,
leader of Andrzej Jagodziński Trio.
GRAŻYNA JANCEWICZ-KULESZA – architekt,
malarka.
Dzieło sztuki i jego brak (The Work of Art Well-Made and Ill-Made), Warszawa
1996,
Poznawanie i niepoznawanie istnienia – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola w
poszukiwaniu metafizycznej zgodności wszystkiego, co istnieje (Knowing and Not Knowing
Being – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Quest for the Metaphysical Harmony of
all Existing Things), Warszawa 2004.
Translations:
Thomas Aquinas, Traktat o Bogu (The Treatise on God),
polish translation and commentaries G.
Kurylewicz, Z. Nerczuk i M. Olszewski, Znak, Kraków 1998, 2000.
Giovanni Pico della
Mirandola, O bycie i jednym (On Being
and One) and List do Hemolausa Barbaro
(The Letter to Hermolao Barbaro), [in:] Anthology of the Latin Philosophy in
the XVth Century, ed. E. Jung, Łódź (in preparation),
Boethius, O pocieszeniu, jakie daje filozofia (De
Consolatione Philosophiae), pol. transl. G. Kurylewicz, M. Antczak, Kęty 2006.
Books of poetry:
Wiersze
(Poems), Kraków 1992, Kraków 1996 (second edition) and Warszawa 2003 (third
edition),
Wydłużyć horyzont (To Extend the Horizon), Kraków 1998, Warszawa 2003 (second edition),
Tristia, Warszawa 2003,
Księżyc świadkiem (in preparation).
Translations of poetry:
William Shakespeare, Hamlet and Sonnets (in preparation).
Phonography:
Historia jednego dnia (Story of the One Day) (script, poems and reciting – G. Kurylewicz,
music, double-bass – Mauro Battisti, the final solo voice – Wanda Warska, sound
directing – Ewa Guziołek-Tubelewicz, studio recording, Fundacja Forma, Polskie
Radio 2002).
JESSICA MEURIOT – artistic coordinator.
JENNY QUAYLE – actress, painter. Jenny
Quayle has appeared in numerous productions throughout Britain, most recently
as Marion Whittaker in Easy Virtue (dir. Maria Aitken) and in Love
for Love at the Chichester Festival Theatre), and as Mrs Elvsted in Hedda
Gabler. Other theatre credits include Lady Julie in Waste, Regan in King
Lear (for Peter Hall at the Old Vic), Deborah in Sons of Deborah (Cockpit),
The River Elbe in Outside on the Street (Gate), Beatrice in The
Venetian Twins, Miss Gilchrist in The Hostage, Princess of France in
Love’s Labour’s Lost (RSC Stratford i Barbican), Viola in Twelfth
Night, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Catherine of France in Henry IV and
Doll Tearsheet in Henry V (ESC), Miss Pepys in The Pepys Show
(Good Company), all six women in Anatol (Theatr Clwyd), Babba in The
Talkin’s Dark (Manchester Royal Exchange), Gloria in You Never Can Tell
(Haymarket), in One of Us and An Inspector Calls (Greenwich), in Great
White Hope (Tricycle Theatre), Titania in Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regents
Park), in One for the Road (written and directed by Harold Pinter, Lyric
Hammersmith), in Quartermaine’s Terms (Queens), in Bus Stop i Gingerbread
Lady (Phoenix), in Man and Superman, Hobson’s Choice and The
Merchant of Venice (Guildford), in Arms and the Man, Fitting for
Ladies and in Beauty and the Beast (Oxford Playhouse), Juliet in Romeo
and Juliet and Beattie in Roots (Ipswich), in Roses of Eyam, The
Boyfriend and in The Merchant of Venice (Northcott Theatre, Exeter).
Her television credits include Soldier Soldier, Peak Practice, A
New Lease of Death, Sherlock Holmes, Wales Playhouse 6, The
Bill, The Old Crown, Voyage of Charles Darwin, Keep in the
Family, Thriller, Play for Today, 30 Minute Theatre.
Radio credits include Diana Era by Timberlake Wirtenbaker (BBC).
VARSOVIA PIANO TRIO – Ewa Skardowska – piano, Adam Zarzycki – violin,
Piotr Hausenplas – cello, chamber music formation peforming classical, romantic
and modern music (J.Haydn, L. van Beethoven, F. Chopin, R.Schumann, A.Panufnik,
A.Kurylewicz).
JERZY WOŁOCHOWICZ – cellist. He has studied
at the Frederic Chopin Music Academy (Warsaw), and at the Israel Music Academy
(Tel-Aviv). He is a founder member of both the New Warsaw Trio and the Warsaw
String Trio. He has been a finalist in numerous chamber music competitions,
including: Muluse ’92, Lodz ’89 and Osaka ’93. He has performed in festivals
throughout Europe. Amongst the many ensembles and institutes under which he has
studied, and collaborated with, are the Beaux Arts Trio (Schleswig-Holstein
Music Festival 1994), the Trio di Trieste (Academia Chigiana, Sienna 1993), and
Piwnica Artystyczna Kurylewiczów (Warsaw). In 1993 he played in a
special private concert at Castel Gandolfo for Pope John Paul II. He has been
involved with many chamber music groups in Poland and abroad. He has recorded
for Polish radio and television, for ZDF, RAI and the BBC.
EWA WYCICHOWSKA – choreographer, dancer,
professor of dance. For many years she performed as the primaballerina of the
Teatr Wielki, Łódz. Since 1988 she has been the artistic director of the Polish
Dance Theatre, Poznań Ballet, inheriting the position from Conrad Drzewiecki,
whose conception of the theatre of the auteur, incorporating modern dance, she
has modified by the invitation for collaboration of auteurs from all over the
world – including Birgit Culberg, Mats Ek, Orjan Andersson (Sweden), Stanisław
Wiśniewski (France), David Earle (Canada), Toru Shimazaki (Japan). She is the
author and choreographer of numerous performances.
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