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The Famd.Pl Orchestra The Orchestra was established in 2009 under the auspices of the Academy of Early Music Foundation from Szczecin. The main objective of the Foundation is to promote the trend of historically informed performance. The group is one of very few in Europe which uses period instruments from the turn of the 19th century, pitched in a - 430 Hz. The Orchestra is made up of outstanding instrumentalists who play period instruments and work full-time as soloists, chamber musicians and teachers at renowned national and foreign music institutions. The leader of the Orchestra is Grzegorz Lalek, a prominent violin virtuoso, whose music activity combines solo, chamber and orchestral performances. The founder and artistic director of the Orchestra is Pawel Osuchowski. The direction towards which the Orchestra is meant to be heading assumes cooperation with artists from the Baltic Sea region revolving around the concerts and festivals organized by the Foundation: On the Gothic Track - Music in the West Pomeranian monuments and the Szczecin Early Music Festival. The Orchestra plays regularly in the regions along the Polish-German border, where it gives numerous concerts and festivals, such as the Concerts of Nations, Kloster Sinna Sommermusiken, Kultursommer in Dominikanerklosert Prenzlau, Uckermärkische Musikwochen. In 2010 the Orchestra was the only Polish group, conducted by a Pole, to perform Frédéric Chopin's music according to the historic scores of prof. Jan Ekier, with Kevin Kenner playing the piano built by Pleyel in 1847. Since 2010 the Orchestra has been running a concert project called Beethoven non plus ultra featuring the performance of all the works by the master from Bonn. In 2012-13 the group took part in the programme of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage - The Promotion of Polish Culture abroad and toured Ukraine with The Royal Concerts - the Music of the Old Republic of Poland and the Music Archives of Polish Monasteries. Pawel Osuchowski A graduate of the Academy of Music in Cracow, in the conducting class of prof. Jerzy Katlewicz. He improved his knowledge and skills under the supervision of Helmuth Rilling by taking part in concert projects and master courses as a scholarship holder of the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart. He conducted a number of symphonic concerts, including the Philharmonic Orchestras from such cities as Czestochowa, Jelenia Góra, Cracow, Opole, Olsztyn, Rzeszów, Szczecin, Katowice as well as the Sinfonia Baltica in Slupsk, Preußisches Kammerorchestre Prenzlau (Germany) and the Leopolis Orchestra in Lviv. He also conducted performances at the Opera at the Castle in Szczecin and performed in front of international audiences at the concerts and festivals in the Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands, Iceland, Germany, Ukraine and Italy. He established and ran Consortium Iagellonicum - the University Baroque Orchestra at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow - between 1993 and 2000. He is currently working as the artistic director of the Collegium Maiorum Choir of The West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, which performs at a number of concerts in Poland and abroad. In 2007-2012 he hosted his own radio programme called The Music Dialogue on the Polish Radio Szczecin. Since 2008 he has been working as an artistic director of the Famd.Pl Orchestra. The artist is also involved in animation and organization of artistic events, concerts and festivals. He started the Bach Days in Cracow, Europe without Borders - Music without Borders Cracow 2000, the Szczecin Early Music Festival, On the Gothic Track - Music in the West Pomeranian monuments and other events. He is an artistic director of the Academy of Early Music Foundation where he is involved in artistic and educational activity. He was the author of the international scholarship programme for young people Reykjavik vs Szczecin - the meetings of young chamber music groups 2010. He recorded numer
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