NZSM hosts Anna Kijanowska: Piano Masterclass

Polish-born pianists Anna Kijanowska, currently on the music faculty at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, visits Wellington to give a piano masterclass to students at the New Zealand School of Music. This will take place in the Adam Concert Room on NZSM's Kelburn Campus. Observers are welcome.

Hailed by The New York Times (2007) as “an excellent young Polish pianist,” Anna Kijanowska (key-en-off-ska) has distinguished herself internationally as a recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist. Mr Leonard of All Music Guide noted: “Kijanowska's performances are amazingly virtuosic, astonishingly charismatic, astoundingly empathic and completely compelling.”

In addition to past engagements in the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom, other performances, both recent and in the near future, include solo recitals at the Carnegie and Merkin Hall in NYC, the National Gallery in Washington DC, the North-West University in South Africa, French Institute in Delhi, India, Polish Embassy in Tokio, an orchestral appearance in the Ukraine (Piano Concerto by Lutoslawski), and chamber music performances at the Hunter College in NYC, S.U.N.Y Fredonia and at the “Life-Music-Now” Center in Berlin.

Ms Kijanowska began her musical education in Poland at the age of seven, and gave her first recital at age eight. In 1992 she entered the Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice, where she studied with Prof. Jozef Stompel. She holds a Doctorate and a Master of Music in Piano Performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York, where she studied with Byron Janis, Mykola Suk, Sara Davis Buechner and Marc Silverman.

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