Felix Yaniewicz

Felix Yaniewicz - violinist and ‘founder of the first Edinburgh Festival’@lived in this New Town house from 1823 until@his death in 1848. Hear his music today on In Tune ⁦@BBCRadio3⁩

It all started with a🎹! 2019 discovery of this beauty led to #Yaniewicz project: crowdfunding, Edinburgh exhibition & new concerto recordings @ChopinInstitute Hear his story 18 Oct @RedViolinFest #Leeds bit.ly/3Av5bmz @leedspiano @HFortepiano

Music runs in the family! Ailsa Dixon is the 3xgreat-granddaughter of composer Felix #Yaniewicz. Find out more about her music being celebrated on 6 March @MusicDurhamUni : northeastpost.co.uk/article/Histor… @musicdurham @durham_uni @Donne_UK @BoulangerInitia

Lovely concert of Polish violin music, including #Yaniewicz's beautiful Elegie, in London 9/11, also to be heard on Polish Independence Day in Manchester.

Concert in London coming soon where I will be also singing in Polish! 😮🎶🎻 * Limited seats, early booking advisable square.link/u/y6dxE0fK

Wonderful session with @James_B_Wilson on his brand new piece ‘My Love is Sleeping’ commissioned with @VWFndn It’s beautiful! Premiere 18.10 @RedViolinFest @UoLConcerts

Paganini's #Leeds concert came 25 years after another great 🎻virtuoso performed in the same venue. Hear 🇵🇱🇱🇹Felix #Yaniewicz's colourful story told by his 4xgreat-granddaughter THIS FRIDAY 5pm @LeedsLibraries @RedViolinFest @LeedsInspired @WhatsOnLeeds

Ladies in Red! @MadeleineM_Vln & @LeedsTours at our fab festival launch today with our Chair & reps of @LeedsConcerts @LeedsLieder @leedspiano @UniversityLeeds @HobgoblinMusic @sinfoniaofleeds Not too late to join walking tour 🎶Tues 11am @LeedsCityMuseum eventbrite.co.uk/e/red-violin-f…

Paganini performed in Leeds in 1832. Local boy George Haddock, who’d started violin lessons in 1831 age 8, was there to hear this top virtuoso with his ‘immensely long fingers’. Tours with 🎻music 11:00 Tues 15 Oct and 14:30 Thurs 17 Oct @RedViolinFest eventbrite.co.uk/e/red-violin-f…

So excited to launch our festival today with all our wonderful partners @LeedsTours @LeedsConcerts @southasianartuk @Opera_North @LeedsMusicDrama @sinfoniaofleeds @UoLConcerts @HobgoblinMusic @Everymancinema @yaniewicz Chairman Michael Beverley DL @TrinityLeeds - RV President

@yaniewicz @RedViolinFest @MichaelBerkele2 @MadeleineM_Vln @leedslibraries @violinist @UoLConcerts @iofestival Although that's definitely a picture of Leeds Minster, not the cathedral...visit @DOLMusic for more about the cathedral's music (and some photos of the actual building).