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Tamara-Anna Cislowska

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Cislowska in 2018

Tamara-Anna Cislowska is an Australian concert pianist. She has performed across many countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, South America, Italy, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, The Netherlands and Poland, and has played with the Philharmonia, the London Philharmonic and Romanian Philharmonic orchestras as well as all six major Australian symphony orchestras.

Career

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Cislowska was taught the rudiments of the piano by her mother, Neta Maughan. 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. One of her first mentors was Nancy Salas, and she later studied with Geoffrey Tozer. She won the most[clarification needed] prizes of the McDonalds Sydney Performing Arts Challenge over three categories; instrumental, speech and drama, singing. 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. A year later she was sent to Sydney's sister cities on a tour as a cultural ambassador, visiting Nagoya, Wellington and San Francisco. Cislowska was a founding member of the Australian Young Performers Trio, St Laurence Trio, Mozart Piano Quartet (Berlin) and Australia Piano Quartet.[1]

Cislowska's recordings include five solo albums on the Artworks label, including The Enchanted Isle, The Persian Hours and The Russians. She has recorded for Naxos, Chandos, Dabringhaus and Grimm, ABC Classics, and Deutsche Grammophon. 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.

As of 2021, on ABC Classic radio, Cislowska hosts the weekly program Duet, described as an hour of music and conversation at the keyboard.[2]

Recognition and awards

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She has received a number of awards and honours 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.[citation needed]

She was the recipient of a David Paul Landa Memorial Scholarship for Pianists (sometime before 2004)[3]

She is a Freedman Fellow. She has an APRA award for Best Performance ACT. Her work has received six nominations for ARIA awards for Best Classical Release.[citation needed]

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2015 Cislowska won Best Classical Album for Peter Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo Piano.[4]

Family

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Her mother, Neta Maughan, is an accomplished piano teacher.

Discography

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Albums

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List of albums, with Australian chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart
positions
AUS
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The Enchanted Isle
  • Released: 1996
  • Format: CD
  • Label:
The Persian Hours
  • Released: 1998
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Artworks (AW010)
Piano: The Russian Album
  • Released: 2009
  • Format: CD
  • Label:
The Ghost Ship
  • Released: 2000
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Artworks (AWO020)
In Concert: Haydn – Mozart – Beethoven
  • Released: 2008
  • Format: CD
  • Label: 2MBS-FM (MBS42)
Bass Instinct
(with Damian Whiteley)
  • Released: 2009
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Damian Whiteley (7357214)
Complete Works for Solo Piano
(with Peter Sculthorpe)
  • Released: September 2014
  • Format: 2×CD, digital
  • Label: ABC Classics (481 1181)
Butterflying: Piano Music By Elena Kats-Chernin
(with Elena Kats-Chernin)
  • Released: 2016
  • Format: CD, digital
  • Label: ABC Classics (481 2625)
Elena Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters – Meditations on Erik Satie
  • Released: 2017
  • Format: CD, digital
  • Label: ABC Classics (481 4967)
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Into Silence
(with Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra)
  • Released: September 2017
  • Format: CD, digital
  • Label: ABC Classics (481 6295)
Vasks Gorecki Pelecis
(with Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra & Johannes Fritzsch)
  • Released: 2018
  • Format: digital
  • Label:
Playing with Fire
  • Released: 2019
  • Format: CD, digital
  • Label: Wirripang ( Wirr 095)
One Summer's Day
  • Released: April 2021
  • Format: CD, digital
  • Label: ABC
Duet
(with guests)
  • Released: November 2021
  • Format: CD, digital
  • Label: ABC
Duet 2
(with guests)
  • Released: September 2022
  • Format: CD, digital
  • Label: ABC

Awards and nominations

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ARIA Music Awards

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The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.

Year Nominee / work Award Result Ref.
1997 The Enchanted Isle Best Classical Album Nominated [6]
1998 The Persian Hours Nominated
1999 Piano: The Russian Album Nominated
2015 Peter Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo Piano Won
2017 Elena Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters – Meditations on Erik Satie Nominated
2018 Into Silence: Part Vasks Gorecki Pelecis (with Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra & Johannes Fritzsch) Nominated
2022 Duet Nominated [7]

References

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  1. ^ "Musica Viva | Tamara Anna Cislowska". Archived from the original on 21 February 2011. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
  2. ^ "Duet". ABC Classic. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  3. ^ "David Paul Landa Memorial Scholarship for Pianists". State of the Arts. 24 August 2004. Archived from the original on 6 April 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ ARIA Music Awards for Tamara-Anna Cislowska:
  5. ^ "ARIA Chart Watch #413". auspOp. 25 March 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
  6. ^ ARIA Award previous winners. "ARIA Awards – Winners by Award". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  7. ^ Lars Brandle (12 October 2022). "Rüfüs Du Sol Leads 2022 ARIA Awards Nominees (Full List)". The Music Network. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
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