Barbara Hesse-Bukowska
Barbara Hesse-Bukowska (born February 8, 1930 in Łódź ; † December 9, 2013 ) was a Polish pianist and piano teacher.
life and work
education
Barbara Hesse-Bukowska was born in 1930 into a family with a long musical tradition: her father was a violinist and conductor, her mother a pianist and piano teacher, her grandfather a piano tuner. From the age of six she began to learn the piano with her mother. Her next piano teacher was Czesław Aniołkiewicz. In 1938 she enrolled in basic courses at the Warsaw Conservatory under Maria Glińska-Wąsowska . During the Second World War she took piano lessons from Margerita Trombini-Kazuro . In 1945 she began regular piano studies with Maria Wiłkomirska in Łódź before joining Trombini-Kazuro's class at the Warsaw State Academy of Music . In 1949 she graduated with the highest distinction and in the same year she won second prize at the 4th International Chopin Competition . In 1953 she won fifth prize at the International Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris. Five years later she deepened her skills with Arthur Rubinstein in Paris as a scholarship holder of the Polish government.
Concert career
She gave her first public concert on July 1, 1945 in Łódź, where she performed Chopin's Andante Spianato and the Grande Polonaise brilliant Op. 22 performed with the local orchestra. She was very active as a concert pianist from the 1950s to the 1970s and performed on all continents. In Europe it occurred in almost every country. She has performed under well-known conductors Nikolai Anossow , Hermann Abendroth , Adrian Boult , Enrique Bátiz , Henryk Czyż , Jerzy Katlewicz , Jan Krenz , Kurt Masur , Witold Rowicki , Stanisław Skrowaczewski and Stanisław Wisłocki . She participated in numerous international festivals in Dubrovnik, Duszniki, Gaming, Ghent, Prague, Warsaw, Vienna and elsewhere. She undertook several concert tours as a soloist with the Warsaw Philharmonic (including in Germany, Austria and France) and the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice. In 1962 she received the Harriet Cohen Piano Medal, introduced in 1951 in memory of the outstanding British pianist Harriet Cohen, as the best pianist of the year.
She recorded for many radio and television stations around the world. For the record companies Polskie Nagrania Muza , Lumen , Westminster , Le Chant du Monde , Deutsche Grammophon and Pol-Music , she recorded works by Frédéric Chopin (concerts, waltzes, mazurkas, nocturnes, impromptus, allegro de concert, polonaises and studies) Karol Szymanowski ( 20 Mazurkas), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (Concerto in A minor), Ludomir Różycki (Ballad for Piano and Orchestra) and other composers.
Teaching
In the mid-1950s, Barbara Hesse-Bukowska began to give piano lessons privately. From 1963 she gave piano classes at the State Music Academy in Wroclaw and from 1972 on at the Warsaw Conservatory. She has given master classes in Warsaw, Helsinki, Havana and Sydney. She participated as a juror at international piano competitions in Warsaw (Chopin Competition, 1985, 1990, 1995), Leeds, Paris, Palm Beach and Hamamatsu.
Awards
Barbara Hesse-Bukowska received the Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland in gold in 1955 . In 1959 she received the Order of the Labor Banner of Class II and in 1984 the same award of Class I.
literature
- Stanisław Dybowski: Barbara Hesse-Bukowska. Fryderyk Chopin Institute, accessed August 20, 2018 .
- Małgorzata Kosińska (culture.pl): Barbara Hesse-Bukowska. Retrieved August 20, 2018 (Polish).
Web links
- Barbara Hesse-Bukowska at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hesse-Bukowska, Barbara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish pianist and piano teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Łódź |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 2013 |