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Islington Tribune - by PETER GRUNER
Published: 31 October 2008

Classical musician Magda Filipczak will play alongside her brother at the Nave on Sunday

Changing tune: Siblings to step in for Jacobson

BROTHER and sister classical musicians from the Guildhall School of Music have stepped in to perform at the Nave this Sunday after world-renowned pianist Julien Jacobson bowed out due to illness.
Lukasz Filipczak will play works for solo piano by Chopin plus Brahms before bringing on his sister and violinist Magda Filipczak and cellist Vashti Hunter (who together make up the Rachmaninov Trio) for a grand finale of Rachmaninov’s Trio Elegaique.
Lukasz has been awarded many prizes in his home country Poland. In 1997 he won the Regional Piano Competition in Gdansk. In 2000 he received the special prize on the XI National Piano Competition in Konin.
In 2003 he won the second prize in the Polish Chamber Music Competition in Gdansk and the third prize on the National Chamber Music Competition in Wroclaw.
In 2007 in Britain he was a prize-winner of the Sydney Perry Award from the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Magda, also an award winner, started to play the violin at the age of six. She graduated from the Nowowiejski Music High School in Gdansk with distinctions in 2004. Since then she has studied at the Guildhall School of Music as a scholarship winner.
The concert starts at 11.30am at The Nave, St Paul’s Church, 1 St Paul’s Road (corner of Balls Pond Road and Essex Road), N1. Tickets £10 adults (recommended donation), includes free supervised crèche/ play area. Children and full time students free.
For more information call 020 7704 2158.

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