Łukasz Mikołajczyk - piano. Altra Volta string quartet - Leszek Sojka - 1st violin, Jacek Dzwonowski - 2nd violin, Aleksandra Marko-Lech - viola, Michał Lech - cello. On the double bass - Krzysztof Korzeń.
Nagranie powstało dzięki i dla Fundacji Piotra Klera podczas sesji nagraniowej w Filharmonii Opolskiej w październiku 2013 r.

Urodzony w 1993 roku w Siemianowicach Śląskich.
Jest absolwentem Państwowej Ogólnokształcącej Szkoły Muzycznej II stopnia im. Karola Szymanowskiego w Katowicach w klasie fortepianu adt. Anny Góreckiej. Obecnie studiuje w Akademii Muzycznej im. Karola Szymanowskiego w Katowicach w klasie fortepianu prof. Zbigniewa Raubo.
Swoje umiejętności rozwijał uczestnicząc w seminariach, warsztatach i kursach pod kierunkiem takich wybitnych pedagogów jak prof. Andrzej Jasiński, prof. Waldemar Andrzejewski, prof. Anna Malikova, prof. Jan Gottlieb Jiracek.
 
Jest laureatem ogólnopolskich i międzynarodowych konkursów pianistycznych. W 2008 roku otrzymał I nagrodę ex aequo oraz Nagrodę Specjalną prof. Elżbiety Stefańskiej za najlepsze wykonanie utworu Jana Sebastiana Bacha na X Konkursie Pianistycznym im. Ludwika Stefańskiego i Haliny Czerny-Stefańskiej w Płocku. W 2010 roku zajął II miejsce na XVI Ogólnopolskim Konkursie Pianistycznym w Koninie oraz uzyskał III nagrodę na Międzynarodowym Podkarpackim Konkursie Chopinowskim w Rzeszowie. 
 
Jako kameralista zdobył szereg nagród i wyróżnień m.in.: II miejsce na V Międzynarodowym Podkarpackim Konkursie Duetów Fortepianowych  w Rzeszowie w 2011 roku oraz II miejsce w Trio fortepianowym na XII Międzynarodowym Konkursie Muzycznym im. Juliusza Zarębskiego w Warszawie w 2012 roku.
 
Za swoje osiągnięcia był wielokrotnie nagradzany stypendiami: Prezydenta Miasta Katowice, Marszałka Województwa Śląskiego, Prezesa Rady Ministrów. 
 
Koncertował w kraju i za granicą. Podczas kursów pianistycznych występował m.in. w Dworku Chopina w Dusznikach Zdroju, w Akademii Muzycznej w Katowicach. Dwukrotnie koncertował w Generalnym Konsulacie RP w Köln zarówno jako solista, jak i kameralista. Jako uczestnik programu Krajowego Funduszu na rzecz Dzieci występował w Sali Widowiskowej w Mazowieckim Centrum Kultury i Sztuki w Warszawie. Brał udział w projekcie „Szaleństwo koncertowania” z Narodową Orkiestrą Symfoniczną Polskiego Radia w Katowicach w 2010 roku.

Fryderyk Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 - 2nd movement.

Love Songs & Romantic Scores

Con disperata gioia

New Trinity Baroque's award winning recording of Henry Purcell's masterpiece "Dido and Aeneas" with Evelyn Tubb and Thomas Meglioranza in the title roles. Directed by Predrag Gosta.

PURCELL Dido and Aeneas - 01 Overture

Rondeau - Henry Purcell

First Loves
Tim Fain, violin
Robert Koenig, piano

First Loves is a collection of quintessential violin masterpieces which first inspired me to be a violinist. Includes showpieces by Rachmaninoff, Sarasate, Wieniawski, and more, plus “Swan Remix,” my own arrangement of themes from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
As a kid, I was surrounded by classical, pop, rock, jazz, film and contemporary concert music – finding a balance of old and new music is still very important to me. Many of the works on First Loves are the ones that drew me in as a child – Rachmaninoff, Sarasate, and Wieniawski, arrangements by Heifetz, and Kreisler – and remain profoundly relevant today. I’ve also included “Swan Remix,” my own arrangement of themes from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, which I made after my work on-camera and on the soundtrack of the film Black Swan. Each track is dedicated to someone who inspired me or made it possible for me to be the person and the artist that I am today. My hope is that First Loves will inspire others, young and old, to fall in love with the violin as I did.

First Loves

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Introduction And Rondo Capriccioso - Camile Saint-Saens

Introduction And Tarantelle - Pablo de Sarasate

Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5, IV.Adagietto [11:06] 
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra | Allen Tinkham, Music Director
RECORDED LIVE : May 16, 2010 | Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5, IV.Adagietto [11:06] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

Confessions (Kokuhaku) Original Soundtrack

Toyohiko Kanahashi (J.S.Bach) - Piano Concerto No.5

Arranged by Phil Snyder. Recorded live in Greenville, SC, October 23, 2012.

Anitra's Dance by Edvard Grieg

Astor Piazzola - Libertango - www.szabokrisztian.net

With his adventuresome spirit and vast musical gifts, violinist Tim Fain has emerged as a mesmerizing new presence on the music scene.  The “charismatic young violinist with a matinee idol profile, strong musical instincts, and first rate chops” (Boston Globe) was most recently seen on screen and heard on the soundtrack of the new hit film Black Swan, and heard as the sound of Richard Gere’s violin in Fox Searchlight’s feature film Bee Season. Selected as one of Symphony and Strad magazines’ “Up-and-Coming Musicians,” Fain captured the Avery Fisher Career Grant  and a Young Concert Artists International Award.  As The Washington Post recently raved, “Fain has everything he needs for a first-rate career.”

He electrified audiences at debuts with the Baltimore Symphony with conductor Marin Alsop, at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.  He has also appeared with the Mexico City and Oxford (UK) Symphonies, Cincinnati Chamber Symphony, Brooklyn and Hague Philharmonics, and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in a special performance at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center.  In addition, he was the featured soloist with the Philip Glass Ensemble at Carnegie Hall in a concert version of Einstein on the Beach and continues to tour the US and Europe in a duo-recital program with Phillip Glass.

Fain appeared in recital at the Ravinia Festival, Amsterdam’s venerable Concertgebouw, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Kennedy Center Mexico’s Festival de Musica de Camara in San Miguel de Allende, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, California’s Carmel Mozart Society, University of Georgia, Boston’s Ives and Ringling International Festivals, San Diego Art Institute, University of California at Davis, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd St Y, and elsewhere across the globe. His multi-media evening Portals premiered to sold-out audiences in New York, Los Angeles and at its midwestern premiere at Omaha’s KANEKO. The centerpiece of the evening is Partita for solo violin, a new work written especially for him by Philip Glass, and also features collaborations with Benjamin Millepied, Leonard Cohen, film maker Kate Hackett, and with radio personality Fred Child and pianist Nicholas Brittel appearing on screen.  

A dynamic and compelling performer in traditional works, he is also a fervent champion of 20th and 21st century composers, with a repertoire ranging widely from Beethoven and Tchaikovsky to Aaron Jay Kernis and John Corigliano; as the Los Angeles Times recently noted, his career “is based, in part, on new music and new ways of thinking about classical music.“  His provocative debut CD Arches, music for solo violin, reflects Fain’s inquisitive passion and intellect, combining old and new solo works by J.S. Bach, Fritz Kreisler, Kevin Puts, Mark O’Connor, Daniel Ott, and Randy Woolf. His new disc, River of Light (Naxos), brings the tradition of the virtuosic short piece into the present, with short works by living American composers.

He has collaborated with such luminaries as Pinchas Zukerman, Richard Goode, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Jonathan Biss, has appeared with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Seán Curran Company, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and appeared onstage with the New York City Ballet, performing alongside the dancers in the acclaimed premiere of Benjamin Millepied’s “Double Aria." He has also worked with jazz pianists Billy Childs and Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus), guitarist Rich Robinson (Black Crowes), and appeared at Jazz at Lincoln Center with singer-songwriter Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20). 

A sought-after chamber musician, Fain has performed at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York’s Bargemusic, Chamber Music Northwest, and the Spoleto (Italy), Bridgehampton, Santa Fe, Caramoor, Bard, Lucerne (Switzerland), “Bravo” Vail Valley, Moab, and Martha’s Vineyard Festivals. He has toured nationally with Musicians from Marlboro, and was first violinist of the Rossetti String Quartet. 

A native of Santa Monica, California, Tim Fain is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music, in Philadelphia, where he studied with Victor Danchenko, and The Juilliard School, where he worked with Robert Mann.  He performs on a violin made by Franceso Gobetti, Venice 1717, the “Moller,” on extended loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

Introduction And Tarantelle - Pablo de Sarasate

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