Jane Stirling Variations
A Narrative Concert Honouring Chopin’s Scottish Muse On 24 October, the Low Parks Museum in Hamilton hosted a unique narrative concert devoted to Jane Stirling — the Scottish pupil, patron, and posthumous guardian of Frédéric Chopin’s legacy. Pianist Anna Dębowska and narrator Marcin Jaroszek guided the audience through the intertwined lives of Stirling and Chopin, […]
Chopin Returns to Lanarkshire
On 23 October 2025 at Wishaw Golf Club, the delicate strains of Chopin’s music once again echoed across the grounds that were once part of the Wishaw House estate — the very place where the composer stayed during his visit to Scotland in 1848 under the care of Jane Stirling. The occasion was the launch […]
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 6PJSunday, 19 November 2023, 4 pmANNA 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 on a […]
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 – […]