Following in their footsteps
A study visit organized with the financial support of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków took four students of English at its Institute of English Studies to the remote locations that Chopin visited in the summer and autumn of 1848.
Revolutions
This concert was a celebration of two anniversaries: 170 years since Jane Stirling broughtFrédéric Chopin to Scotland and 100 years since Poland regained its hard-fought independence. The event was, therefore, an opportunity to demonstrate the multitude of ties that connect the Polish and Scottish nations.
The Young for Jane Stirling
A free eventTime: 12 October 2018, 7 p.m.Venue: Edinburgh Society of Musicians, 3 Belford Road, Edinburgh There is future in the past and hope in the young. It is in this spirit that three young Polish artists paid tribute to Jane Stirling through the artistic output of two Great Romantics – the music of Frederic […]
The Jane Stirling Bridge
It was to the apartment of his compatriot – Dr. Lyszczynski – located at 10 Warriston Crescent in Edinburgh that Frédéric Chopin repeatedly and eagerly returned. Chopin was granted the nursery in a small bedroom on the first floor, where he would seek both physical and spiritual recovery through his host’s homeopathic treatment and an opportunity to converse in the Polish language. This concert, given by Poland’s Marian Michalski and Scotland’s John Willmett, takes place in the very bedroom occupied in 1848 by the forlorn composer.
An Evening with Jane Stirling
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 correct this travesty of historical justice.
The Stirlings’ reunion
It was after approximately 100 years on 26 October 2018 that the family of Stirlings was reunited with the famous Pleyel Grand Piano No 13823 which once belonged to Jane Stirling and on which Frederick Chopin played in Scotland in 1848. The grand was acquired by Edouard Ganche from Anne Houston, who inheritted the Chopin material then still in Scotland.
Jane Stirling’s descendants in Kraków
It was on 26 October 2018 that we had the pleasure to celebrate the conclusion of the 2018 Jane Stirling Festival with the descendants of Jane Stirling – Patrick and Susan Stirling-Aird of Kippenross and Henrietta Sommervell – the great grat niece of Jane Stirling. We were joined during a special dinner organized by the Jane Stirling Project by a number of reputable guests representing the world of Kraków’s academia – The Jagiellonian University, Kraków Music Academy and Kraków Sports Academy.
The 2018 Jane Stirling Festival
The 2018 edition of the Jane Stirling Festival will take place in the fall. The Scottish events will be held from 10-13 October and the Polish events on the 26th. Below you will find more detailed information on the organized events.
Photographic exhibition at Collegium Maius
The exhibition shows places related to Chopin’s stay in Scotland in 1848. Some of them are the stately homes which the Great Romantic visitted thanks to the hospitability of Jane Strling, her family, and her friends. Photographs by Jakub Orłowski illustrate unique venues, often unavailable to the public, such as the legendary Calder House, New […]
Rafał Blechacz in Kippenross
September 1848. The window to his room presents a most beautiful view of the „Sterling Castel”. He is a great pianist and Jane Stirling knows it only too well. Happy to host Chopin this rainy summer in her native Scotland, she realises Frederic feels most comfortable at her uncle’s Keir House north of Stirling. She wishes so much that he would visit her in her family residence – Kippenross – just a few miles away.
The 2017 Jane Stirling Festival
The 2017 edition of the Jane Stirling Festival included several events organized in April in Scotland and in May in Poland. Below you will find more detailed information on the organized events as well as photographs illustrating what really happened during the concerts.
Jane’s birthday after 160 years
On July 15, 2016, Stiring’s Holy Trinity Scottish Episcopal Church and its community witnessed an unprecedented event. A Kraków trio under the banner of the AboutProject.com performed what they proudly call An Evening with Jane Stirling to celebrate the 212th Anniversary of the birth of this Scottish heroine – Frederic Chopin’s pupil and friend. The next day they repeated the performance in Dunblane Cathedral – the presumed resting place of Chopin’s benefactor.