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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 thePhilharmonia, theLondon Philharmonic Orchestra and Romanian Philharmonic orchestras as well as all six major Australian symphony orchestras.
Cislowska received her first piano lessons from her mother,Neta Maughan, a noted piano teacher from a long line of pianists and teachers. She emerged as a child prodigy, giving her first public performance at age two. She began recording material forABC Radio at three years of age. One of her first mentors was Nancy Salas, and she later studied withGeoffrey 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 1991ABC 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, includingThe Enchanted Isle,The Persian Hours andThe Russians. She has recorded for Naxos, Chandos, Dabringhaus and Grimm, ABC Classics, and Deutsche Grammophon. She has contributed to albums with theSydney Symphony Orchestra, theNew Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
As a recitalist she has performed at thePurcell Room in London, the Concert Hall of theSydney Opera House, the Kleine Zaal of theConcertgebouw in Amsterdam and in New York at theFrick Collection andCarnegie Hall.
Since 2020, Cislowska hosts the weekly programDuet onABC Classic Radio, described as an hour of music and conversation at the keyboard.[2]
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 aDavid 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 forARIA awards for Best Classical Release.[citation needed]
At theARIA Music Awards of 2015 Cislowska wonBest Classical Album forPeter Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo Piano.[4]
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| AUS [5] | ||
| The Enchanted Isle |
| — |
| The Persian Hours |
| — |
| Piano: The Russian Album |
| — |
| The Ghost Ship |
| — |
| In Concert: Haydn – Mozart – Beethoven |
| — |
| Bass Instinct (with Damian Whiteley) |
| — |
| Complete Works for Solo Piano (withPeter Sculthorpe) |
| — |
| Butterflying: Piano Music By Elena Kats-Chernin (withElena Kats-Chernin) |
| — |
| Elena Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters – Meditations onErik Satie |
| 91 |
| Into Silence (withTasmanian Symphony Orchestra) |
| — |
| Vasks –Gorecki –Pelecis (with Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra andJohannes Fritzsch) |
| — |
| Playing with Fire |
| — |
| One Summer's Day |
| — |
| Duet (with guests) |
| — |
| Duet 2 (with guests) |
| — |
TheARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres ofAustralian 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 and Johannes Fritzsch) | Nominated | ||
| 2022 | Duet | Nominated | [7] |
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