Aldona BUDREWICZ-JACOBSON
Swiss pianist of Polish origin, Aldona Budrewicz-Jacobson was born on the shores of the Baltic, at Sopot, near Gdansk, where she spent her childhood and youth. She grew up in a family where music has been present for many generations; her great-grandfather was a conductor.
She shows a real talent for the piano at a very early age, beginning her studies at the age of 6. At 12, she received the prestigious grant of the Frederic Chopin National Society in Poland. She then graduated with honours from the Gdansk Conservatory of Music and received a "Master of Arts" degree at the Gdansk Academy of Music. She continued her piano studies with Carlo Zecchi in Italy and Louis Hiltbrand in Geneva.
She has performed as a soloist with several orchestras, and has toured Italy in the late 70s with the Baltic Philharmonic of Gdansk under the baton of Zygmunt Rychert. In 1993, she recorded a CD dedicated to the music of Antonin Dvorak and to the Concerto in C major op. 14 of Franciszek Lessel (1780-1838) (see the video below), a Polish composer now almost forgotten but who greatly influenced the style of Chopin. This recording was appreciated by critics and remains a reference in the discography.
In 1997, she created the Frederic Chopin Society in Geneva of which she is the President to this day. In 2007, she was awarded the Knight's Cross of Merit of the Polish Republic and in 2010, for the bicentenary of the Chopin’s birth, she received the famous "Chopin Passport".
Her artistic activity extends well beyond the borders of Switzerland, and includes concerts, recitals, and regular masterclasses all across Europe, as well as invitations as jury member of international piano competitions.
In her teaching, she explains the background of the soul of Chopin's music, whose roots come from the nostalgic scenery of Mazovia, in deep Poland, and from the folk songs and dances like mazur, oberek and kujawiak. She stresses that without a deep knowledge of its origins; the music is and will remain sterile! She tirelessly explains to her Swiss or Italian students that a mazurka is not a tarantella... Since 1979, Aldona Budrewicz-Jacobson is a professor at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève.
Aldona Budrewicz, pianista di Danzica ha eseguito con grande temperamento e notevole partecipazione emotiva la Sonata op.57 di Beethoven Appassionata rivelando un indubbio talento musicale ed una preparazione tecnica ammirevole
E una meraviglia di musicalità, di ritmo e di espressività
Aldona Budrewicz est Polonaise. Et, pardon pour le féminisme, très féminine. C’est dire qu’elle joue Chopin avec le « romantisme » et la pointe de langueur qui s’associent à cette image. Beaucoup de rubato, de la sensibilité à fleur de peau, une volonté d’émotion qui traverse tout ce récital.
Faszinierendes Chopin-Spiel
« Brillantes, virtuoses und vehementes Klavierspiel. »
« So hat man wohl um die Jahrhundertwende Klavier gespielt; so spielte wohl ein Artur Rubinstein oder, um einen andern dieser Konzertlöwen zu nennen, ein Paderewski! » sagt man sich beim Anhören Aldona Budrewicz
Il concerto di Khatchaturian, opera varia e complessa, in cui si alternano momenti di slancio appassionato e di raccoglimento interiore, di rigore accademico e di richiamo al folklore orientale, ha trovato in Aldona Budrewicz un’esecutrice ammirevole per ricchezza di temperamento.
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Un récital Chopin pourrait inciter au petit jeu des comparaisons. Nous y renonçons facilement car Aldona Budrewicz-Jacobson a largement de quoi devenir Aldona Budrewicz-Jacobson : le jeu est joli, vivant, la diction claire. Dès lors on se gardera de parler par exemple de « puissance qui ne dégénère jamais en brutalité » - à propos des Polonaises, de « délicatesse qui ne frôle à aucun moment la mièvrerie » - à propos du Nocturne, quant à la Ballade, il faudrait dire qu’elle « allie de façon parfaite les aspects véhéments et recueillis de la musique de Chopin.