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Biography
Tamara Anna Cislowska
Tamara Anna Cislowska began her career at an early age studying with her mother, Neta Maughan. She gave her first public performance at the age of two, playing Bartok, and recorded several pieces for ABC Radio at the age of three. Tamara began studies at the Sydney Conservatorium aged six, and two years later gave her first performance with an orchestra. At 14, she was the youngest pianist ever to win Australia's most prestigious classical music award, the ABC Young Performers' Award. Soon after, she was named Sydney's Finest Performer resulting in a tour of Japan and the United States as a cultural ambassador.
She has been a major prizewinner at several international piano competitions including the Maria Callas, National World Power and Ravere d'Oro. She was the recipient of the David Paul Landa Memorial Scholarship for pianists and in 2003 was awarded the Music Council of Australia/Freedman Foundation Fellowship in Classical Music
As a recitalist she has performed at the Purcell Room in London, the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House and the Kleine Zaal of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Ms Cislowska has toured in the United States, performing at the Frick Collection in New York, in Chicago and in Los Angeles.
She has also appeared in Japan, Poland, Italy, Greece, England, Germany, France, Canada, Colombia, Mexico and Switzerland. She has performed as soloist with the London Philharmonic and Romanian Philharmonic Orchestras, the NHK and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras and the six major Australian symphony orchestras.
Tamara has been described as 'a true virtuoso' Athens News (Greece), 'skilful and poetic - a true artist' The Times (London), 'an incredibly fine pianist' Nagoya Council Magazine (Japan), 'a dynamic performer with a flawless technique and searing intensity' The Irish Times (Dublin).
The Darmstadter Echo (Germany) reported that she 'shaped the piano masterfully with feather-light runs and an incredibly varied touch'.
Opera in the Arboretum is extremely delighted to welcome Tamara Anna Cislowska to Pearl Beach and have her play for you at our 2010 event.
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