The “Ohrid Summer” festival continues its music program tonight with a performance by pianists Anna Miernik and Joanna Sochacka. The four-hand piano concert will take place at the “St. Sophia” church at 9:00 PM and is part of the traditional Polish evening of the festival, held annually with the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Skopje.
Anna Miernik has performed on five continents and in 38 countries around the world. In 2015, she performed at Carnegie Hall in New York in the Weill Recital Hall. She has given concerts in prestigious venues such as the Sydney Opera House, the National Theatre in Lima, the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico, and others. As part of the “El Sistema” program, she has performed with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina, the State Orchestra of Mexico, the Yucatan Symphony Orchestra, the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra, the RTV Albania Orchestra, the Marchigiana Philharmonic, and many more orchestras in Poland, Argentina, Spain, Bulgaria, Venezuela, and Peru. She has performed in Ottawa and Calgary in Canada, Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth in Australia, Wellington in New Zealand, as well as in Vienna, Paris, Rome, Bari, Miami, São Paulo, Brasília, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Lima, and Santiago de Chile.
Described by critics as an artist who “not only plays but lives in the music” (Sonja Köhler, General-Anzeiger) and as a “pianist who explores sound worlds with intelligence and pianistic culture” (Remy Franck for Pizzicato magazine), Joanna Sochacka has already won over audiences in many countries, including England, France, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain, Switzerland, Estonia, the Netherlands, Italy, Moldova, and Israel. She has performed in prestigious concert halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the National Forum of Music in Wrocław, the Royal Albert Hall in London, Beethoven House in Bonn, the National Philharmonic in Chișinău, and the National Philharmonic in Warsaw. Joanna is a recipient of awards and recognitions from over 30 international piano competitions in England, the USA, Estonia, France, Germany, Austria, and Hungary. In 2019, she won the first prize and all special prizes at the Padua Piano Competition in Italy.
