Antoinette Szumowska-Adamowska

Antoinette Szumowska-Adamowska (born Antonina Szumowska , also Antoinette Szumowsky-Adamowsky / Antoinette Szumowski-Adamowski ; born February 22, 1868 in Lublin ; † August 18, 1938 in Rumson / New Jersey) was a Polish pianist and music teacher.

Szumowska was a student of Rudolf Strobl and Aleksander Michałowski at the Warsaw Music Institute and took private lessons with Ignacy Jan Paderewski from 1890 to 1895 . She made her debut as a pianist in the Paris Salle Erard in 1891 and gave concerts in all the major concert halls in London, Russia and Poland the following year.

With a recommendation from Paderewski, she went to the USA in 1895, where she made her debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and toured with conductors such as Theodore Thomas and Walter Damrosch . During her concerts she met the cellist Józef Adamowski , whom she married in 1896. With him and his brother Tymoteusz Adamowski she founded the Adamowski Trio , which existed until 1914 and gave concerts on a regular basis. Her marriage to Adamowski had two children: the ice hockey player Tadeusz Adamowki and the actress Helenka Pantaleoni .

Since the beginning of the 20th century, Szumowska-Adamowska taught - as did her husband and brother-in-law - at the New England Conservatory , where Ruth Culbertsen and Mary Madden were among their students. Her most famous student, the Puerto Rican Jesús María Sanromá , took over her chair in 1930. Some recordings of her own piano playing, made around 1916/17, have been preserved on piano rolls.

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• Sophie Drinker Institute - European female instrumentalists of the 18th and 19th centuries - Szumowska, Antoinette
• encyclopedia.com - Szumowska, Antoinette
• WJ Baltzell: A complete history of music for schools, clubs, and private reading , Theodore Presser, 1908