TAMARA ANNA CISLOWSKA ‘From the PIano with Love’

“What a treat to be able to hear such a fantastic, sensitive and agile pianist” The Age (February 2018)

“Tamara-Anna Cislowska’s solos are impeccable … ravishing … and crystalline ” – Limelight Magazine

Arguably Australia’s most renowned ARIA award-winning concert pianist and familiar ABC presenter, Tamara returns to Harden by popular demand. She performs and records in Australia, London, Italy, Greece Japan and the USA. Awarded 'Best Classical Album’ she now has ten ARIA no.1 albums and presents her weekly program ‘Duet’ for ABC Classic FM.

‘From the Piano with Love’ will include some colourful Rachmaninoff, Moussorgsky, Beethoveb and a few beautifully familiar popular classics: Lara’s theme from Dr Zhivago. Deborah de Graaff clarinet, will join Tamara request to perform some of their favourite pieces.

Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), Prelude in C sharp minor

Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943), Vocalise transcribed for Clarinet in A and Piano

Elena Kats-Chernin (b 1957), Russian Rag for Clarinet and PIano

Eric Satie, (1866 - 1925), Gymnopedie no.1

Elena Kats-Chernin (b 1957), Unsent Love Letters

Arvo Pärt (b 1933) Für Alina

Modest Moussorgsky (1839 - 1881), Baba Yaga from Pictures at an Exhibition

Maurice Jarre (1924 - 2009), Lara’s Theme from Dr Zhivago

Ben Folds (b 1966), Capable of Anything

Elena Kats-Chernin (b 1957), Slick Back Tango for Clarinet and PIano

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 - 1827), Adagio from the ‘Emperor’ Concerto

Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886), Hungarian Rhapsody No.6

Ross Memorial Uniting Church, 2pm, Sunday February 25th, 2024. A new visitor to Hilltops LGA? Why not spend the whole weekend in Harden? After the concert and a beautiful high tea with wine and cheese tasting, rest over at one of our beautiful motels, hotels and B&Bs. For accomodation in Harden see https://www.hrdc.org.au/explore/#stay

For other events on this weekend see https://www.visithilltopsregion.com.au/see-do/festivals-events/

To guarantee best seats online bookings are recommended and preferred to avoid disappointment

Proudly sponsored by Freeman Vineyards HRDC

listen to Tamara play here:

https://youtu.be/YHubCfP3aUU?si=aFpug7la9xeIUYqf Pelēcis 'Concertino Bianco' – Tamara-Anna Cislowska / Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

https://youtu.be/zB3G3YbEIyM?si=BPIQl1fZ0D4DK8x0 unsent love letters: a musical meditation on Erik Satie

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TAMARA-ANNA CISLOWSKA, PIANO

Tamara-Anna Cislowska is one of Australia’s most renowned pianists, performing and recording in Australia and internationally to critical and public acclaim. Earning international prizes in London, Italy and Greece and touring Japan and the USA as cultural ambassador for Australia, Tamara’s accolades include ABC Young Performer of the Year, the Freedman Fellowship, an Art Music Award for ‘Performance of the Year’ (ACT) and the 2015 ARIA award for 'Best Classical Album'.

Tamara has performed recitals at London’s Purcell Room, the Kleine Zaal of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and New York’s Frick Collection, and as soloist with the London Philharmonic, Puerto Rico Symphony, Australian Chamber Orchestra, and all major Australasian symphony orchestras. Recent highlights include touring with CIRCA for the Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival (New York) and the world premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin’s Piano Concerto no.3, Lebewohl with the Queensland and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras.

2023 engagements included as soloist with Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra performing the premiere of Kats-Chernin’s Ancient Letters concerto for piano, and as pianist in the sold-out Sydney Opera House world premiere of ‘Human Waves’, celebrating with empathy and humour, the waves of human migration that have shaped the harbour city, commissioned by Sydney Philharmonia Choirs for its Centenary Celebrations, with music by Kats-Chernin and libretto by Cislowska. Concerts have included with soprano Tarita Botsman at Bleach Festival (Gold Coast), two-piano concerts at Sydney’s City Recital Hall and Melbourne Recital Centre with Gerard Willems, Musica Viva Tasmania, Piano Plus’ ‘Out West Piano Fest’ and Australian Digital Concert Hall’s 88 Keys piano festival. 2024 sees a return to as soloist with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (cond. Dmitri Matvienko), with the Bendigo Symphony Orchestra, Canberra International Music Festival, Blackheath Chamber Music Festival (NSW), and a recording of Kats-Chernin concertos with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra for 2025 release.

With over a million streams on Spotify and ten ARIA no.1 albums for ABC Classics, Deutsche Grammophon and Naxos, Tamara is a regular voice on ABC Classic with her weekly show ‘Duet’, with live performances with international and Australian guests featured on her latest chart-topping album, nominated for ‘Best Classical Album’ in the 2022 ARIA Awards.

For more information, please visit www.tamara-annacislowska.com

“the audience welcomed one of the busiest concert pianists around, Tamara-Anna Cislowska. What a treat to be able to hear such a fantastic, sensitive and agile pianist navigate Prokofiev’s intense and lengthy cadenzas… Cislowska’s playing was impeccable. She was in turns immensely powerful and charmingly vulnerable, channelling the young Prokofiev as the pianist battles with pressures and forces internal and external… thunderous applause”

– The Age (live review, Prokofiev Piano Concerto no.2/Canberra Symphony Orchestra, February 2018)

“a thrill to hear [Cislowska] performing the technically demanding Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor… wonderful control and contrast in her playing style – one moment delicate and sublime then suddenly heavy, solid and demanding and in powerful control of her keyboard.”

– Canberra CityNews, February 2018 (Prokofiev Piano Concerto no.2/Canberra Symphony Orchestra) www.cinqueartistmanagement.com

“Tamara-Anna Cislowska’s solos are impeccable – ravishing in the Chopin and Beethoven and crystalline in Pärt’s bell-like Für Alina” – Limelight Magazine, 2017 (Australian Chamber Orchestra: Mountain)

“magisterial and uplifting” – Limelight Magazine, 2017 (live review: Monet’s Flowers of War, National Gallery of Australia)

“Australian piano gold... transfixing” – BBC Music Magazine, 2015 (Sculthorpe album review)

"A profoundly affecting release" - Gramophone, 2015 (Sculthorpe album review)

“I raved about Kats-Chernin and Cislowska’s fine artistic partnership back in May 2016, following the release of their album, Butterflying. Their latest project... is equally outstanding... Cislowska brings the Kats-Chernin/Satie amalgam to life with the same brilliance ... Unsent Love Letters is a triumph for Kats-Chernin and Cislowska, and a great tribute to the tender and exquisite music of Erik Satie.” – Readings Monthly, 2017 (Unsent Love Letters, ‘Classical Album of the Month’ March 2017)

"a true dream team... dazzling... Fasten your seatbelts and hold on." – Limelight 2016 (Butterflying, Editor’s Choice August 2016)

“strong and expansive. She played with a fleet-fingered fluency”

– The Press News, 2015 (Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra)

"A highly refined pianist, Cislowska drew kaleidoscopic tones from the instrument, reminding [one] of a young Rubinstein"

- Canberra CityNews, 2014

"real mastery... extraordinary stamina and skill" - Canberra CityNews, 2013

“a fiery and extremely agile technique.. a demonic attack and greatest command over virtuosic textures…”

– Sydney Morning Herald

"A perfect combination of artistry and virtuosity" - The Strad

"Skilful and poetic - a true artist" - The Times

Reviews for Peter Sculthorpe: Complete works for solo piano (ABC Classics):

“Australian piano gold… transfixing.” – BBC Music Magazine (January 2015)

"Cislowska's great gift is to pick up on the saudade inherent in this distinctive, finely-crafted, and for the most part lyrical music, and project it outwards in an utterly natural, unforced manner. A profoundly affecting release" – Gramophone (January 2015)

“With solid technique, innate sensitivity and interpretative powers, Cislowska commands the music’s changing moods... Cislowska’s intelligent, unerring musicianship and strong hand... make this project an Australian treasure." - news.com.au, 2014

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