Tamara Anna Cislowska

Tamara Anna Cislowska is an Australian concert pianist. She has performed across most of the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Germany, Colombia, Greece, The Netherlands and Poland, and has associated with the Philharmonia, the London Philharmonic and Romanian Philharmonic orchestras as well as all six major Australian symphonies.

Cislowska was taught the rudiments of the piano by her mother, Neta Maughan, AM. She emerged as a child prodigy, giving her first public performance at age two. She began recording material for ABC Radio at three years of age. Her mother then sent her to a different teacher, Nancy Salas, because she felt her daughter was copying her own students' idiosyncrasies too well. She won the 1991 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards, Australia's most prestigious classical music award, at the age of 14, becoming the youngest pianist ever to do so.[1]

She has received a number of awards and honors for her work and has been a major prizewinner at several international piano competitions, including the Rovere d'Oro, Maria Callas and National World Power. Her work has received three nominations for ARIA awards for "Best Classical Release".

Cislowska's recordings include five solo albums on the Artworks label, including The Enchanted Isle, The Persian Hours and The Russians. She has contributed to albums with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a recitalist she has performed at the Purcell Room in London, the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House, the Kleine Zaal of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and in New York at the Frick Collection and Carnegie Hall. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2015 Cislowska won Best Classical Album for Peter Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo Piano.[2]

Family

Her mother, Neta Maughan AM, is an accomplished piano teacher. The Australian opera singer Eva Mylott (1875–1920), grandmother of Mel Gibson, was a relative of Cislowska's family.[3]

Discography

  • The Enchanted Isle
  • The Persian Hours
  • Piano: The Russian Album
  • Close Your Eyes And I'll Close Mine (with Anna McMichael, violin)
  • Peter Sculthorpe: Compete Works for Solo Piano
  • Butterflying – Piano Music by Elena Kats-Chernin
  • Elena Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters – Meditations on Erik Satie (2017; No. 91 AUS[4])

References

  1. ↑
  2. ↑ ARIA Music Awards for Tamara-Anna Cislowska:
    • Search Results 'Tamara-Anna Cislowska': "Search Results for 'Tamara-Anna Cislowska'". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 23 December 2015.
    • 1997 winners and nominees: "Winners by Year 1997". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 22 December 2007. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
    • 1998 winners and nominees: "Winners by Year 1998". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
    • 1999 winners and nominees: "Winners by Year 1999". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Archived from the original on 19 May 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
    • 2015 nominations: Baroni, Nastassia (7 October 2015). "Courtney Barnett, Hermitude, Tame Impala Lead 2015 ARIA Award Nominations". musicfeeds.com.au. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
    • 2015 winners: "And the ARIA Awards Goes to..." Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 27 November 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  3. ↑ Great Australian Girls
  4. ↑ "ARIA CHART WATCH #413". auspOp. 25 March 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
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