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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, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia, and all major Australasian symphony orchestras. Recent engagements include concerti by Gorecki, Liszt, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich and Kats-Chernin’s Piano Concerto no.3, Lebewohl, commissioned for Cislowska and performed in the LPO’s 20/20 season. Tamara performed in the world premiere of Human Waves with music by Elena Kats-Chernin and libretto by Cislowska for Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ Centenary Celebrations in 2020. She has toured to the USA with CIRCA for the Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival and given solo and chamber recitals in almost all the major venues, and arts and classical music festivals in Australia with concerts this year including Four Winds Festival, Melbourne Recital Centre, UKARIA Cultural Centre, the Art Gallery of NSW and regional touring for Musica Viva.
With seven ARIA no.1 albums including One Summer’s Day, Into Silence with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and Unsent Love Letters (also available on Deutsche Grammophon), Tamara also presents weekly program ‘Duet’ for ABC Classic FM, with a first collection of the show’s duets now available, from ABC Classics.