University of Warsaw, Old Library Building - Site of the Chopin Congress
Congress Poster
Fragment of the poster
After Garrick Ohlsson's recital at the National Philharmonic, with Maja Trochimczyk.
Friday, February 26, 2010 - Congress session chaired by Prof. Alicja Jarzebska. From the left: Prof. Magdalena Dziadek, Dr. Maja Trochimczyk, Prof. Irina Nikolskaya, Prof. Alicja Jarzebska, and Prof. David Kasunic
Session detail with Prof. Magdalena Dziadek, Dr. Maja Trochimczyk, and Prof. Irina Nikolskaya, February 26, 2010
Malgorzata Kalicinska of Mazovian Culture Center and Maja Trochimczyk with Chopin at an exhibition in Palac Kazimierzowski, University of Warsaw - their alma mater.
Dr. Adriana Ponce, :Prof. Halina Goldberg and Dr. Maja Trochimczyk, February 26, 2010.
Prof. Zofia Chechlinska, Dr. Maja Trochimczyk, Prof. Maciej Golab, February 27, 2010.
Prof. Andrzej Tuchowski and Prof. Zofia Helman, February 27, 2010.
Prof. Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger and Prof. John Rink.
Prof. Jeffrey Kallberg and Prof. Halina Goldberg.
Prof. Charles Bodman Rae and Elzbieta Penderecka after a concert at the National Philharmonic.
Prof. Danuta Jasinska, Prof. Alicja Jarzebska and Prof. Maciej Jablonski.
Prof. Jim Samson, Prof. Michal Bristiger and Prof. Elzbieta Witkowska-Zaremba.
Prof. Michal Bristiger, Prof. Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarminska and Prof. Jolanta Pekacz.
Sociologist Dr. Barbara Pabjan in discussion with Prof. Irena Poniatowska, with Prof. Halina Goldberg and documentary filmmakers in the background.
Prof. Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski at the closing session
Prof. Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski and Prof. Irena Poniatowska at the closing session
Prof. Irena Poniatowska with Dr. Maja Trochimczyk, her former student.
Prof. Halina Goldberg, Prof. Jim Samson and Prof. Zofia Chechlinska
Prof. David Kasunic, Prof. Halina Goldberg and Prof. Zofia Chechlinska
Prof. James Methuen-Campbell, Prof. David Kasunic, Prof. Halina Goldberg and Prof. Zofia Chechlinska
Prof. Zofia Chechlinska at the entrance to the Chopin Exhibition at Palac Kazimierzowski
Prof. Zofia Chechlinska and Dr. Maja Trochimczyk
Display caption at the new Chopin Museum, Warsaw
Opening of the Chopin Museum for Congress Participant, Museum Director, Alicja Kast welcomes the participants.
Chopin's youth section of the Chopin Museum.
Chopin's last piano at the Chopin Museum.
Prof. Danuta Jasinska and Prof. Charles Bodman Rae at the Chopin Museum.
Prof. Zofia Chechlinska, Dr. Maja Trochimczyk and Alicja Kast, Museum's Director.
Exhibit of items from Chopin's life in Paris - fragments of letters have recorded readings available on headphones.
Dr. Maja Trochimczyk in virtual living room (music and shadows show triggered by walking into the space), at the Chopin Museum.
Flowers from Chopin's death bed at the Chopin Museum.
Chopin-themed artwork at the Chopin Museum.
Artwork - video installation with multiple "talking heads" talking about Chopin simultaneously.
Ballroom at the Royal Castle where Leif Ove Andsnes's recital was held on March 1, 2010.
National Opera where the official "gala concert on the 200th birth anniversary of Fryderyk Chopin" was held.
Maja Trochimczyk with actress Alina Janowska during the intermission.
Actors in period costumes strolled among guests during the reception at the National Opera.
The piano was made of plexiglass and filled with flowers - one of the artworks on display during the reception.
Maja Trochimczyk at the reception.
Paper sculptur of George Sand in a display of women in Chopin's life at the National Opera.
Display of paper figures of women in Chopin's life at the National Opera.
Poster for a Chopin stamp.
Newly unveiled plaque at the Palac Kazimierzowski, University of Warsaw.
Entrance to the Church of the Holy Cross where Chopin's heart is preserved.
Interior of the Church of the Holy Cross, with the pillar dedicated to Chopin on the left.
Plaque commemorating Chopin's heart in the Church of the Holy Cross.
Old-style poster display with Chopin concerts, Krakowskie Przedmiescie with gates to the University of Warsaw in the background.
Kosciol Wizytek on Krakowskie Przedmiescie
View down Krakowskie Przedmiescie towards the Old Town.
House of Polonia where Chopin's longest birthday concert was held, from 22 February 2010 to 1 March 2010, Chopin Non Stop.
Chopin posters on Krakowskie Przedmiescie.
Chopin poster with legs.
Plac Zamkowy with the Royal Castle.
The Old Town with bell towers of the Cathedral and Jesuit Church.
The Old.Town Square with the Warsaw Mermaid.
Passerby examine one of the marble benches with music installations, placed around town to mark Chopin's Warsaw.
Chopin's Warsaw bench playing a fragment of his Piano concerto, with an engraved map with locations of these commemorative benches.
Chochol (as in Wyspianski's "Wesele") playing music in a bar.
Interior of St. John the Baptist Cathedral, rebuilt in pure Gothic style after its total destruction during the war.
Ceiling in the main nave of the Cathedral.
Matka Boza Laskawa, altar of the Jesuit Church next to St. John The Baptist Cathedral
Snow melted and froze again...
Maja Trochimczyk and Hania Kulenty, friends for 30 years.
Typographer Martin Majoor and composer Hanna Kulenty with their children, Piotr and Kaja.
Monument of the Unknown Soldier, with two soldiers on guard at 1 a.m.
London from the airplane.
Grapefruit in a California garden.
