About the project

The project is a tribute to Jane Stirling, who preserved the legacy of Frédéric Chopin. Not many seem to know that it was she who provided help for Chopin in the ultimate years of his life. Alas, Chopinologists may have been too interested in the often more passionate relationships our Great Romantic maintained with his female admirers. Consequently, little has been heard of his Scottish benefactor, who seems to have successfully evaded the limelight and so undeservedly fallen into oblivion. The project is an attempt to bring these facts to light so as to do justice to the woman who "saved Chopin".

Past into Present 2024

A concert restaging F. Chopin’s performence originally given on 7 July 1848 at the residence of Lord Falmouth, London. On 12 May 2024 in Drummohr House, Scotland, Anna Dębowska and Poland’s soprano Katarzyna Oleś-Blacha restaged the concert F. Chopin originally gave on 7 July 1848 at the residence of Lord Falmouth, London. The audience at […]

Chopin’s Scotland in Tarnów

The narrated concert performed by Anna Dębowska on the piano and narrated by Marcin Jaroszek and the photographic exhibition entitled „Chopin’s Scotland” were a truly enchanting and informative experience. The concert took place in the concert hall of the Music School in Tarnów as part of the city’s annual celebrations, and it certainly set the […]

Poland Independence Day Concert

Scottish Polish Cultural Association at General Maczek Polish Ex-combatants House, 11 Drummond Place, Edinburgh EH3 6PJ Sunday, 19 November 2023, 4 pm ANNA DĘBOWSKA: PIANO This afternoon, as we gathered to commemorate Poland Independence Day, we were transported by the spellbinding compositions of Polish maestros, beautifully rendered by Poland’s Anna Dębowska. Together, we will embark […]

Chopin en route

a narrated concert restaging Frédéric Chopin’s performance given in Manchester on 28 August 1848

Chopin’s Scotland in Biblioteka Kraków

Venue: Biblioteka Kraków Date: 22 April, 7 pm. Second of the events commemorating the involvement of Jane Stirling in preserving the legacy of our Great Romantic 175 years after CHopin’s arrival on the British Isles. On 22 April 2023, During the event, the audience representing Germany, Slovakia, the Chech Republic, Spain and Poland listened to, […]

175 years later

It was precisely on 20th April 1848 that Frederic Chopin arrived in London to begin his tour of the British Isles. And it was precisely 175 years later on 20 April 2023 that Anna Dębowska performed a number of Chopin’s compositions to commemorate this event organized as part of the April Conference by the Jagiellonian […]

Past into Present in Bamff House

Anna Dębowska (piano) and Norway’s Edvard Adde (tenor) at Bamff House, Scotland – the residence of Paul and Luise Ramsay of Bamff, on 16 October 2022, restaged F. Chopin’s Matinee Musicale originally given by F. Chopin at 99 Eaton Pace, London, on 23 June 1848 at the residence of Mrs. Adelaide Sartoris, whom he knew in […]

Chopin’s Scotland

This is the story of Jane Stirling, Frederic Chopin’s pupil and friend – the story that began in Scotland in 1848 and has rested dormant ever since, for nearly two centuries. And after so many years and so many generations, it is our task to rectify one of the greatest lacunae in musical history and […]

Past into Present 2021

On 8 October 2021 at 6.30 pm at Holy Trinity Church in Stirling, Anna Dębowska restaged Chopin’s matinée musicale held on 4 October 1848 in the Hopetoun Rooms, Edinburgh. The event included Chopin’s Valses, Mazourkas, Nocturnes, and his other compositions which he performed during his last public performance in Scotland.

An hour with Frédéric Chopin

It was in September 2021 that with the pandemic coming to an end the Jane Stirling Project made the effort to reach all those music lovers that for many reasons could not see us in person during live performances pending in October. This online concert by Anna Dębowska is another tribute to Jane Stirling – […]

Past into Present 2019

„Past into Present: Gargunnock House 2019” – a concert restaging Chopin’s matinée musicale held on 27 September 1848 in the Merchants’ Hall, Glasgow.

Chopin’s Scotland – St John’s Kirk, Perth

The venue was filled with real music and history lovers. And in the audience Dennis Melloy, Provost of Perth and Kinross, Mrs Sylwia Spooner representing the Consulate General of Poland and many other celebrities. Perth Friends of Bydgoszcz, Perth Scouts, Jagiellonian University, Consulate General of Poland in Edinburgh, thank you!

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