Ewa Kupiec
Ewa Kupiec (* 1964 ) is a Polish pianist and professor.
biography
Ewa Kupiec studied in Katowice , at the Fryderyk Chopin University for Music in Warsaw and at the London Royal Academy of Music, and together with Andrzej Bauer, she won the ARD music competition in the category duo piano / cello in 1992. Since then, numerous engagements have taken Ewa Kupiec not only to the most important festivals in Europe, but also to the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra , the Gürzenich Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic . She has also played with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Warsaw Philharmonic. In the 2005/06 season she made her solo debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the International Piano Series in London's South Bank Center.
Ewa Kupiec pays particular attention to contemporary music. In 2001, for example, she gave the European premiere of Joan Tower's Piano Concerto under the direction of Marin Alsop in Berlin with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra . In 2005 she performed the rediscovered 1st Piano Concerto by Alfred Schnittke for the first time with the Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Berlin Konzerthaus , which was followed in September 2006 by the 2nd piano concerto and the double concerto. Contemporary works are often found in their recital and chamber music programs, and many composers have appropriate works for them. Regular chamber music partners are e.g. B. the Petersen Quartet , Jan Vogler , Jörg Widmann and Isabelle Faust .
The close artistic collaboration between the pianist and the conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski has also been documented since 2003 through the recording of Chopin's two piano concertos. In addition to standard works, her repertoire includes compositions by Lutosławski , Paderewski , Szymanowski , Clara Schumann , Szpilman , Ravel and Debussy .
Kupiec has been a professor at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media since 2011 .
Discography
Ewa Kupiec has recorded numerous CDs, including works by Grażyna Bacewicz , Lutosławski, Karol Szymanowski ( Echo-Klassik concert recording of 1997) and Paderewski. In October 2004 Sony Classical released a CD with works for piano and orchestra by the Polish composer Wladislaw Szpilman with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. Current recordings include Shostakovich's piano quintet with the Petersen quartet, the CD “Conception” a. a. with works by Randall Meyers as well as “Children's Corner” with works by Debussy, Ravel, Villa-Lobos and Meyers, the latter two on their own label “Solaris”. Her recording of Leoš Janáček's solo works was released in February 2007 . In May 2005 she completed an extensive tour of Australia - her recording of Chopin's 1st Piano Concerto with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra there became the first CD of the newly founded orchestra's own label. In 2008 her recording of the Schnittke piano concertos with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra was released by Capriccio.
Quotes about Ewa Kupiec
- “Kupiec's playing is a mixture of temperament, limitless technique, creative ability and complete penetration of the musical structure with the greatest possible transparency and no less admirable richness of color in this perfection. Their playing is brilliant and yet unobtrusive, atmospherically dense and completely devoid of virtuoso powerhouse work. ”( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 29, 2004)
- “A true revelation”, enthused the composer Witold Lutosławski of her virtuosity and natural individuality.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prize winners. Duo Violoncello Piano ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: BR-Klassik .
- ↑ Stefan Arndt: Ewa Kupiec becomes a professor at the music college. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine . February 16, 2012, accessed September 26, 2015 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kupiec, Ewa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |