Olga Iliwicka-Dąbrowska

Olga Iliwicka-Dąbrowska (born July 13, 1910 in Łódź , † December 26, 1979 in Poznan ) was a Polish pianist and music teacher.

Iliwicka spent her early childhood in Russia and began her musical education after her family returned to Poland during the First World War with Antoni Dobkiewicz , a student of Teodor Leszetycki . She studied from 1928 to 1931 at the Warsaw Music Academy with Jerzy Żurawlew and made her debut after graduation (with distinction) in 1931 with a noted symphony concert in Łódź.

In 1932 she took part in the International Chopin Competition , in 1933 in the International Music Competition in Vienna. In 1937 she took tenth place in the Chopin Competition. Since the early 1930s she has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in concerts and on the Polish Radio , and in 1934 she gave the world premiere of Adam Wieniawski's Piano Concerto. She has also been teaching since 1932, initially as an assistant to Jerzy wurawlew , and later with her own piano classes at the Warsaw Academy of Music.

After the outbreak of World War II, she lived as a piano teacher in Warsaw and gave concerts underground. During the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, she was arrested and came to Germany as a forced laborer. After the war she returned to Poland and taught at the Toruń Music Institute, the Sopot Music Academy and, from 1951, at the Poznan Music Academy . In 1967 she gave the world premiere of the First Piano Concerto, and in 1970 the world premiere of her husband Florian Dąbrowski's Second Piano Concerto .

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• Narodowy Institut Fryderyka Chopina - Olga Iliwicka-Dąbrowska (Polish)
• Olga Iliwicka-Dąbrowska at Discogs (English)