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.
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 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.
, on ABC Classic radio, Cislowska hosts the weekly program Duet, 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.
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.
At the ARIA Music Awards of 2015 Cislowska won Best Classical Album for Peter Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo Piano.[4]
Her mother, Neta Maughan, is an accomplished piano teacher.
| Album details | Peak chart positions | ||
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| The Enchanted Isle |
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| The Persian Hours |
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| Piano: The Russian Album |
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| The Ghost Ship |
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| In Concert: Haydn – Mozart – Beethoven |
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| Bass Instinct (with Damian Whiteley) |
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| Complete Works for Solo Piano (with Peter Sculthorpe) |
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| Butterflying: Piano Music By Elena Kats-Chernin (with Elena Kats-Chernin) |
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| Elena Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters – Meditations on Erik Satie |
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| Into Silence (with Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra) |
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| Vasks Gorecki Pelecis (with Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra & Johannes Fritzsch) |
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| Playing with Fire |
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| One Summer's Day |
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| Duet (with guests) |
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| Duet 2 (with guests) |
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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.! |-| 1997| The Enchanted Isle|rowspan="7" | Best Classical Album| |rowspan="6" | [6] |-| 1998| The Persian Hours| |-| 1999| Piano: The Russian Album| |-| 2015| Peter Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo Piano| |-| 2017| Elena Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters – Meditations on Erik Satie| |-| 2018| Into Silence: Part Vasks Gorecki Pelecis (with Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra & Johannes Fritzsch)| |-| 2022| Duet| | [7] |-