Last revised: 30 Oct 2007
Pawel Siwczak CV
Pawel Siwczak
Harpsichord, Fortepiano, Chamber Organ & Clavichord E-mail: info [at] pawelsiwczak.com ✧ Website: www.pawelsiwczak.com Date of birth: 17 April 1979, Nationality: Polish Education & Qualifications 2005-(expected 2007)
Royal Academy of Music, London - Master of Music (MMus) Historical Performance Department Harpsichord & Fortepiano with Carole Cerasi Clavichord & Continuo with Terence Charlston
2003-(expected 2008)
Frederic Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw - Master of Arts Harpsichord with Wladyslaw Klosiewicz
2003-2004
Frederic Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw - Postgraduate diploma Piano with Prof. Elzbieta Tarnawska
1998-2003
Frederic Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw - Master of Arts Piano with Prof. Elzbieta Tarnawska Piano Chamber Music with Prof. Barbara Halska Prizes and Awards
2007
Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellowship for Four Temperaments ensemble at the Royal Academy of Music, London
2007
Broadwood Harpsichord Competition Winner (Benton Fletcher Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments in Fenton House)
2007
Bickerdike Allen Early Music Prize, Isabel May Walton and Peter Latham Awards, Royal Academy of Music, London
2007
Nancy Nuttall Early Music Prize First Prize with Triologue ensemble
2006
Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize, Musica Brittannica Trust Winner (Performance of early English music, solo harpsichord)
2006
Friends’ of RAM Early Music Prize First Prize with Four Temperaments ensemble
2005
Peter Le Huray Award, Royal Academy of Music, London Masterclasses
Apr 2007
J.S. Bach St Matthew’s Passion - Workshop with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
2006
Orchestral Masterclass with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, RAM
2006 & 2007
Harpsichord Masterclass with Kenneth Gilbert, RAM
2005-2007
Performance Classes with James Johnstone, Elzbieta Stefanska, Catherine Mackintosh, Jennifer Ward Clarke, Laurence Cummings, Jed Wentz, Katherina Spreckelsen, Ingrid Seifert, Jonathan Manson Work & other experience
2007-
Teaching second study harpsichord, harpsichord for piano accompanists and basso continuo for non-keyboard players at the Royal Academy of Music, London
Oct 2007
Educationl/Outreach project at Elderly People’s home and at a primary school as part of the Brighton Early Music Festival, Live! scheme, with Triologue ensemble
2004-2005
Teaching keyboard studies at the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw
2004-2005
Music and dance at the court of Louis XIV - educational project with the Polish National Philharmony
Last revised: 30 Oct 2007
Pawel Siwczak CV
Experience in Performance 25 Oct 2007
Recital at the University of Sheffield, University Drama Studio
9 Oct 2007
Concert with Triologue ensemble as part of the Brighton Early Music Festival, Live! scheme at the Old Market in Hove
26 Sep 2007
‘Autumn Baroque’ concert by Four Temperaments ensemble as part of their Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music, London (David Josefowitz Recital Hall)
16 Aug 2007
Prizewinner’s recital (Broadwood Competition) at Fenton House, London
Jul 2007
Four Temperaments concerts as part of the Young Artists’ Platform at the Festival de Saintes, France
May/June 2007 Concerts with Four Temperaments ensemble in Warwickshire and in Somerset 22 Jun 2007
J.S. Bach Mass in B minor, RAM Period Instrument Baroque Orhcestra and Choir, dir. Trevor Pinnock CBE
Apr 2007
Performance of J.S. Bach solo harpsichord music as part of the four-day Bach session at the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw
10 Mar 2007
‘A Celebration of the Concerto’, performance of the baroque concerti in Wimbledon (solo in JS Bach Triple A minor Concerto)
3 Feb 2007
‘From Renaissance to Baroque’, solo harpsichord recital, Goodenough College, London
5 Dec 2006
‘Telemann at Advent’, as the director of The King’s Private Musick ensemble, together with Galantia Voices choir
Nov 2006
UK Premiere of J.Ph. Rameau’s opera “Dardanus”, RAM Period Instrument Baroque Orchestra and RAM Opera, dir. Laurence Cummings
29 Nov 2006
Friends of the London Handel Festival, Winter Series, Four Temperaments ensemble concert in St. George’s Hannover Square
20 Oct 2006
Bloomsbury Festival, Songs and Arias by Handel and Purcell in the Foundling Museum, with Madeleine Holmes (soprano)
6 Aug 2006
Youth Chamber Music Festival, Olsztyn, Poland
23 Jun 2006
Spitalfields Festival, Academy Baroque Orchestra and Choir, dir. William Christie
May 2006
‘Music for the Sun King’, RAM Baroque Ensemble, dir. Lisa Beznosiuk Sutton House & Cobbe Collection
22 May 2006
Harpsichord recital at the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw
17 Mar 2006
Academy/Guildhall Period Instrument Orchestra, dir. Rachel Podger
10 Mar 2006
Solo harpsichord recital, together with Krzysztof Urbaniak, Goodenough College, London
Feb 2006
4th Early Music Forum at the F. Chopin Academy in Warsaw, opening and closing concerts
19 Nov 2005
Guildford Chamber Choir, Anniversary Concert (Handel ‘Israel in Egypt’), dir. Jeremy Summerly, Holy Trinity Chirch, Guildford
3 Nov 2005
RAM Period Instrument Baroque Orchestra, dir. Simon Standage
21 Oct 2005
A Celebration for Trafalgar Night, London Classical Sinfonietta and Pegasus Chamber Choir, dir. Laurence Cummings Future engagements
3 Nov 2007
Concert as part of the event commited to Scarlatti for the British Harpsichord Society
2008
Recitals in Hatchlands, Finchcocks & Edinburgh, at early keyboard instruments collections, and at Handel House, London
Jan 2008
A concert of French Baroque music by Four Temperaments ensemble at the Royal Academy of Music
Feb 2008
A concert by Four Temperaments as part of “Music by the Commons” in Wimbledon
Feb 2008
A concert by Triologue as part of “Music by the Commons” in Wimbledon
Jun 2008
A concert with The Bach Players in Hatchlands, Cobbe Collection