Accompanists
LARISA CZABAN
Pianist and chamber musician. She graduated with honours from the S. Prokofiev Academy of Music in Donetsk (Ukraine). Since 1998, she has been associated with the Silesian Opera in Bytom as a répétiteuse for soloists. She has frequently accompanied singers during international and national competitions. She has made numerous recordings for the Polish Radio and Television. She is a member of the Ukrainian Association of Pianists – Laureates of International Competitions. Her repertoire includes over 70 operas, operettas, and musicals (piano reductions) as well as numerous chamber pieces.
Since 2000 she has been the accompanist of the International Adam Didur Opera Singers’ Competition. In 2013 she participated in the 1st European Academy of Vocal Art organised by the Silesian Opera. In 2016 she took part in the Polish première of the two-act chamber opera Anne Frank’s Diary by Grigoiy Frida at the 4th International Krzysztof Penderecki Festival Level 320, and a year later in the fifth edition of that Festival she participated in performing the monumental Seven Gates of Jerusalem by Penderecki. During Sinfonietta Festival in 2017 she performed with Lethiec Trio from France presenting the compositions of Mel Bonis, a French composer; in 2018 together with Simfonia Varsovia and Simfonietta Cracovia she played in the concert for two string orchestras, a piano and timpani by Bohuslav Martinů. She gives numerous concerts in Poland and abroad.
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