Gigue

Minuets

Sarabande

Courante

Allemande1

Prelude

Lyric Hall, 9/18/2016
Cihan Yucel, piano
Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello

S. Rachmaninoff - Cello Sonata Op. 19

Saint-Saens Cello Concerto

Ignacy Gaydamovich is an active soloist, recitalist, teacher, and a chamber musician. Born into an artistic family, he spent his formative years in Poland studying piano, cello and composition. There he also devoted his time as a music director to the theater Dzien Smierci Mozarta and produced a play for light and shadow after Britten's Suite No. 1. After winning several prizes at international competitions in Austria and Poland, Gaydamovich moved to the United States to continue his graduate studies. There his interests expanded to include conducting. 

Gaydamovich performs in Europe, Lebanon, Japan, and the United States. He is a recipient of multiple awards from Austrian, American, and Polish institutions. In 2012 he gave the Albanian premiere of the Korngold Cello Concerto with the National Radio and Tv Orchestra of Albania in Tirana. As an advocate for new music, he gave the American premiere of Cellotronicum for cello and computer by Michal Talma-Sutt, commissioned and premiered a solo work by Alexander Barsov, and appeared on a crossover CD Cosmospir. Gaydamovich is a founding member of the Xonor Piano Trio, principal cellist of the Boston Chamber Orchestra.

A passionate teacher and organizer, Gaydamovich has been a frequent guest at the Conservatory Music in the Mountains in in Durango, Colorado. He has given masterclasses at the first middle-east orchestra program in Beirut in 2015, as well as at festivals in Japan, Poland, Lithuania, and at several American colleges and schools, and is a co-founder of the Promisek Bach Workshops in Bridgewater, Connecticut. During the Fall of 2015 he served on the cello faculty at the Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.

Gaydamovich has received full scholarships and degrees from F. Chopin Music Academy, Texas Christian University, Boston Conservatory, and Longy School of Music. He has a doctoral degree from the Hartt School at the  University of Hartford. He has studied with Terry King, Jesús Castro-Balbi, Rhonda Rider, Andrzej Bauer and Kazimierz Michalik.

In addition to performance and pedagogical work, Gaydamovich is the author of a dissertation about Alfred Schinttke’s Cello Sonata No. 1, as well as the author and publisher of a cello method Beyond the Octave that expands upon the work of Janos Starker, and has lectured on historically informed performance practices relating to the classical cello repertoire. In his spare time he likes to make arrangements and transcriptions. Thanks to Chabner Family Foundation, Gaydamovich is playing on a modern copy of an Amati "The King" 1566 cello made by Wojciech Topa. Gaydamovich plays exclusively on Presto Strings. 