Harpsichordist, Royal Academy of Music
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Junior Fellow at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
- Founder, Academia Creative Services at Academia Creative Services (Sole Proprietorship)
- harpsichordist, early keyboard specialist (teacher) at Royal Academy of Music
- harpsichordist, fortepianist, pianist at Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland
- Musician, freelancer (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Junior Fellow at Royal Academy of Music
- Harpsichordist at Brighton Early Music Festival - Early Music Live!
- Accompanying pianist at Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland
- Education
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- Royal Academy of Music, U. of London
- Akademia Muzyczna im. Fryderyka Chopina w Warszawie
- Panstwowa Szkola Muzyczna I i II stopnia im. Fryderyka Chopina w Olsztynie
- I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Adama Mickiewicza w Olsztynie
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Pawel Siwczak’s Summary
- Early keyboard specialist (harpsichord, fortepiano, clavichord, virginals, chamber organ), freelancing soloist and chamber musician based in London, performing both in the UK and abroad.
- Teacher at the Royal Academy of Music in London
- Junior Fellow at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff
- Award winner (including 8th Broadwood Harpsichord Competition 2007, Musica Britannica's Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize 2006, DipRAM for an outstanding final recital 2008)
Completed a Master of Music in Performance (MMus) degree with distinction, researching Wanda Landowska's expressive playing and combination of the value of individual interpretation with the historically informed manner of performing early music to contemporary audiences.
For more details, including concert invitations, latest news, contact details,
see http://www.pawelsiwczak.com
Pawel Siwczak’s Specialties:
Performing early keyboard music - late renaissance & baroque as well as early classical, chamber music from 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, solo and with chamber ensembles.
Pawel Siwczak’s Experience
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Junior Fellow
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
(Music industry)
October 2009 — Present (2 months)
Working with students of the Historical Performance department and with keyboard players (mostly pianists), coaching, accompanying, introducing to the harpsichord playing and to figured bass realization.
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Founder, Academia Creative Services
Academia Creative Services (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Graphic Design industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
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harpsichordist, early keyboard specialist (teacher)
Royal Academy of Music
(Music industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
* Teacher of basso continuo for non-keyboard players at the Historical Performance Department
* Teacher of harpsichord for piano accompanists
* Teacher of second study harpsichord -
harpsichordist, fortepianist, pianist
Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland
(Educational Institution; AMFC; Music industry)
1998 — Present (11 years )
Studied piano master's and postgraduate with Elzbieta Tarnawska, piano chamber with Barbara Halska and still doing harpsichord with Wladyslaw Klosiewicz
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Musician, freelancer
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Music industry)
April 1991 — Present (18 years 8 months)
* Solo harpsichord and other early keyboards player, see www.pawelsiwczak.com
* Member of Four Temperaments (previously known as Donum Musicum), Baroque Quartet, see www.fourtemperaments.co.uk
* Member of Triologue, Baroque Ensemble, see www.triologue.co.uk
* Founder and dorector of The King's Private Musick, early music ensemble, see www.kingsprivatemusick.com
* freelancing continuo player, ask for availabity and details (contact through LinkedIn or www.pawelsiwczak.com) -
Junior Fellow
Royal Academy of Music
(Music industry)
September 2007 — July 2008 (11 months)
Four Temperaments (previously known as Donum Musicum), Pawel's ensemble specializing in performance of Baroque and Early Classical repertoire on period instruments, was the first baroque group to be awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music for 2007/2008. The group acted as an ensemble-in-residence at the Academy, working alongside current students in various areas of performance.
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Harpsichordist
Brighton Early Music Festival - Early Music Live!
(Music industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
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Accompanying pianist
Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland
(Educational Institution; AMFC; Music industry)
October 2004 — June 2005 (9 months)
accompanied the violin, cello, viola and accordion,
students of Krzysztkof Bakowski, Andrzej Orkisz, Blazej Sroczynski, Piotr Reichert and Jerzy Jurek
Pawel Siwczak’s Education
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Royal Academy of Music, U. of London
Master of Music , Early Music - Harpsichord, Clavichord, Fortepiano , 2005 — 2008
Received the "Peter Le Huray Award" and "Isabel May Walton Award", scholarships from the Royal Academy of Music.
- Activities and Societies:
- * Student of Carole Cerasi and Terence Charlston at the Historical Performance Department (Early Music) led by Laurence Cummings; completed a Master of Music in Performance (MMus) degree with distinction.
* Member of a fortepiano trio with Eleanor Harrison and Kinga Gaborjani-Szabo
* Member of the Donum Musicum, Baroque ensemble
* Member of Triologue, Baroque ensemble
* Fortepiano and violin duo with Eleanor Harrison
* Fortepiano and flute duo with Soile Pylkkonnen
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Akademia Muzyczna im. Fryderyka Chopina w Warszawie
Master of Arts and postgraduate , music, piano, piano accompanimet, harpsichord , 1998 — 2004
Studied piano master's and postgraduate with Elzbieta Tarnawska, piano chamber with Barbara Halska and still doing harpsichord with Wladyslaw Klosiewicz
- Activities and Societies:
- Strusingers Choir, Jeunesse Musicale de Pologne,
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Panstwowa Szkola Muzyczna I i II stopnia im. Fryderyka Chopina w Olsztynie
diploma , Piano , 1986 — 1998
Studied with Marzena Bienkunska and Waclawa Daniluk
- Activities and Societies:
- Member of Agata Wilinska's choir "Continuo"
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I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Adama Mickiewicza w Olsztynie
Additional Information
Pawel Siwczak’s Websites:
Pawel Siwczak’s Interests:
early music, renaissance, baroque, classical, opera, arts, creative activities, web-design, DTP, languages (Latin, Greek, Quenya, French, English, Polish, German), horse riding, swimming, books, travels, tea, wine, cooking
Pawel Siwczak’s Groups:
Royal Academy of Music
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Royal Society of Arts
Incorporated Society of Musicians
Goodenough College
British Harpsichord Society
British Clavichord Society
The Hospital Club
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London House (William Goodenough College) - Former or Current Residents, London -
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Royal Academy of Music (London) -
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IFN Music -
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Working In France -
Aficionados of Baroque Music
Pawel Siwczak’s Honors:
* 2008 - DipRAM awarded for an oustanding final recital at the Royal Academy of Music, London
* 2007 - Winner of the 8th Broadwood Harpsichord Competition, Fenton House, Benton Fletcher Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments, London
* 2006 - Winner of the Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize organised by Musica Britannica Trust for performance of early English music
* 2005 - received a scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music, Peter Le Huray Award
* 2003 - "special" Jerzy Bytnerowicz Prize for contemporary music performance at the 37. Festival for Polish Pianists in Slupsk
* 2003 - Regina Smendzianka's scholarship for the best candidate for postgraduate studies at the Academy of Music in warsaw
* 2002 - a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture for the best student of Keyboards Faculty at the Academy in Warsaw
* 1998 - 3rd Prize at the Polish Nationwide Piano Competition in Warsaw
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