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Marcin Dylla (Guitar Foundation of America 1st Prize winner)
Concert - Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 at 8 PM
Master Class- Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 at 6 PM
Guitar Foundation of America Winners Tour Web site: www.guitarfoundation.org
See a live performance of this artist on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja_GXzg8EhE&feature=related
Marcin Dylla Biography
After having won 17 first prizes at the most prestigious international music competitions and having been
awarded a number of audience and orchestra prizes additionally, Polish guitarist Marcin Dylla has just now received his 18th trophy: On October 21, 2007 he got the gold medal of the ‘Guitar
Foundation of America International Competition’ in Los Angeles which can be considered as the most important guitar contest around the globe.
Many music critics, connoisseurs and music lovers certify that he leads the world elite of classical
guitar players. Cecilia Rodrigo, daughter and executor of the legendary Spanish composer and creator of the ‘Concierto de Aranjuez’, Joaquin Rodrigo, has chosen Marcin Dylla to perform the
world premiere of a lately discovered new guitar work by her father entitled ‘Toccata’ (1933) on June 1, 2006 at Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art in Madrid.
So far, he has played in a number of distinguished concert halls such as Konzerthaus, Musikverein and
Palais Lobkovitz in Vienna (Austria), Auditorio Nacional and Auditorio Conde Duque in Madrid (Spain), St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall (Russian Federation), Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo
(USA), Villa Hügel in Essen (Germany) and the Palazzina Liberty in Milan (Italy).
Apart from his guest performances at virtually every major European and North American guitar festival,
Marcin Dylla has been regularly invited to appear at international music festivals including Festival Internazionale Settimane Musicali di Stresa (Italy), Don Quijote Music Festival (Paris,
France), Burghofspiele Eltville (Germany), International Festival Musical Olympus (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation), Inverno Musicale (Alzano, Italy), Central European Music Festival
(Zilinai, Lithuania), Festival Internacional de Música (Toledo, Italy) and Musique Dans la Rue (Aix-en-Provence, France). In February 2007 Marcin performed as a soloist with the Hermitage
State Orchestra at the Hermitage Festival in St. Petersburg.
Furthermore he has cooperated with various orchestras and conductors in Europe and the United States such
as JoAnn Falletta, Alexander Rahbari, Mariusz Smolij, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (USA), Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Television Espanola (RTVE Madrid, Spain), St. Petersburg
Philharmonia Orchestra (Russian Federation), Orchestra Filharmonica di Torino (Italy) and the Essen Chamber Orchestra (Germany).
Marcin Dylla was born in Chorzow in 1976. He received his first guitar lessons at the Ruda Slaska Music
Conservatory in his native Poland. From 1995 to 2000 he studied at the Music Academy of Katowice with Adi Wanda Palacz. He then completed his studies with Prof. Oscar Ghiglia, Prof. Sonja
Prunnbauer and Prof. Carlo Marchione at the Music Academies of Basel (Switzerland), Freiburg (Germany) and Maastricht (The Netherlands), respectively.
Among his most recent highlights rank an exceedingly successful tour of the United States in September
and October 2007 performing Rodrigo’s ‘Concierto de Aranjuez’ in a number of concerts with the Fort Collins Symphony under Wes Kenney and the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and the Riverside
Symphonia under the baton of Mariusz Smolij.
„The biggest bang of the evening was as a result of the performance by the guest artist, Marcin Dylla, a
Polish, by way of Germany, guitarist. He performed the Concierto de Aranjuez penned by the Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo.
While the piece is recognized as a classic blend of the guitar
and orchestra, Dylla plays his instrument as a six-string orchestra, in and of itself. The balance of the music comes forth as a background.
This guitarist is one of the most formidable
and talented instrumentalists to have graced the Heymann Performing Arts Center stage in some time. The man simply gathered the audience into his musical embrace and kept them there. The
velvet clutch was based upon the siren-like song of his guitar, as well as Dylla’s uncanny ability to control and then amplify the sounds of six strings into a fully developed concert.
I
first heard Dylla in an evening recital in the Lafayette home of Patrick and Jennifer LeBlanc. The intimacy of that environment was ideally suited to the instrument's sound, creating a mood
and setting of intimacy and grace. The man played his guitar, caressing the instrument’s neck with his left hand and deftly stroking with the right, as a paramour caressing his beloved’s
cheek. The music that he played that night, and the way in which he interpreted the notes, is best personified by a lover’s sensuous embrace, or perhaps even a gentle slap - moods that deal
with the pendulous swing of any relationship. With only six strings, he caught the entire spectrum of emotions that is ordinarily wrought by the majestic sweep of an entire orchestra.“
Ray Blum
THE ADVERTISER
„Throughout the competition, Dylla was the guitarist who had garnered the most buzz. Dylla had an air of
controlled cool. The way he concluded the slow movement was the loveliest moment of the night. His touch was so light, his tones so delicate that the sound was exquisitely resonant. When he
finished the piece, the audience jumped up and cheered. It seemed pretty obvious who was going to be the Audience Favorite, and Dylla was…
When Dylla was awarded the grand prize, his fans
again went wild, and BPO (Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra) brass players played the Polish national anthem.“
THE BUFFALO NEWS
1st Prize - Guitar Foundation of America International Competition in Los Angeles, USA (2007)
1st
Prize - International Guitar Competition ‘Printemps de la Guitare’ in Charleroi, Belgium (2004)
1st Prize – International Guitar Concerto Competition ‘JoAnn Falletta’ in Buffalo, USA (2004)
1st Prize - International Guitar Competition ‘Rene Bartoli’ in Aix-en-Provence, France (2003)
1st Prize - International Guitar Competition in Markneukirchen, Germany (2003)
1st
Prize - International Guitar Competition ‘Guerrero’ in Madrid, Spain (2002)
1st Prize - International Guitar Competition of Crete, Greece (2002)
1st Prize - International Guitar
Competition in Almeria, Spain (2002)
1st Prize - International Guitar Competition ‘Joaquin Rodrigo’ in Madrid, Spain (2002)
1st Prize - International Guitar Competition in Alessandria,
Italy (2001)
1st Prize - International Guitar Competition in Sernancelhe, Portugal (2001)
1st Prize - International Guitar Competition ‘Forum Gitarre’ in Vienna, Austria (2001)
1st
Prize - International Guitar Competition in Gargnano, Italy (2000)
1st Prize - International Guitar Competition in Alcoy, Spain (2000)
1st Prize - International Guitar Competition in
Liechtenstein (1999)
1st Prize - International Guitar Competition ‘Karl Scheit’ in Vienna, Austria (1998)
1st Prize - International Guitar Competition in Tredrez Locquemeau, France
(1998)
1st Prize - International Guitar Competition in Tychy, Poland (1997)
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