Name Tamara Cislowska | ||
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Education Sydney Conservatorium of Music Albums Piano Concertos No. 1 & 2/Concerto For 2 Pianos, The Enchanted Isle: Australian Piano Music, The Ghost Ship Similar People Elena Kats‑Chernin, James Judd, David Stanhope, Edo de Waart, Geoffrey Tozer | ||
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Tamara Anna Cislowska is an Australian concert pianist. She has performed across most of the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Germany, Colombia, Greece, The Netherlands and Poland, and has associated with the Philharmonia, the London Philharmonic and Romanian Philharmonic orchestras as well as all six major Australian symphonies.
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Cislowska was taught the rudiments of the piano by her mother, Neta Maughan, AM. 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. Her mother then sent her to a different teacher, Nancy Salas, because she felt her daughter was copying her own students' idiosyncrasies too well. 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.
She has received a number of awards and honors 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. Her work has received three nominations for ARIA awards for "Best Classical Release".
Cislowska's recordings include five solo albums on the Artworks label, including The Enchanted Isle, The Persian Hours and The Russians. 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. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2015 Cislowska won Best Classical Album for Peter Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo Piano.
Family
Her mother, Neta Maughan AM, is an accomplished piano teacher. The Australian opera singer Eva Mylott (1875–1920), grandmother of Mel Gibson, was a relative of Cislowska's family.