Piano Recital of Dr. Anna Kijanowska

Wed 23 Jan 2013, 8 pm
Youth Theater

From The Embassy of the Republic of Poland:

The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Hanoi has the pleasure to invite you to the piano recital performed by Dr. Anna Kijanowska, with works by Jan Ignacy Paderewski, Karol Szymanowski, Frederic Chopin and Grazyna Bacewicz.

Kijanowska, whose recordings include “The Complete Mazurkas by Szymanowski,” has performed in North and South America, Asia, Europe, New Zealand, Africa and Australia. Hailed by The New York Times as “An excellent young Polish pianist,” she has established herself internationally as a recitalist; chamber musician and concerto soloist. She’s appeared at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall and the Kennedy Center, as well as in venues such as the Amazon basin in Brazil and the Himalayas in Nepal.

Ms. Kijanowska began her musical education in Bielsko-Biała, Poland and she attended the Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice, under the tutelage of Prof. Józef Stompel. After receiving her Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the Music Academy in Wrocław, she was awarded a scholarship to study with Dr. Madeleine Forte (pupil of Alfred Cortot, Rosina Lhevinne and Wilhelm Kempff) at Boise State University in the United States. She holds a Doctorate and a Master of Music in Piano Performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York, where she studied with Byron Janis (pupil of Vladimir Horowitz and Rosina Lhevinne), Mykola Suk (pupil of Lev Vlasenko), Sara Davis Buechner (pupil of Rudolf Firkušný and Mieczysław Munz) and Marc Silverman.

Ms. Kijanowska is currently a faculty member at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. She is a former faculty member of the University of Richmond in Virginia, the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, The Castleman Quartet Program, the Levine School of Music, and the Washington International Piano Festival in Washington D.C.

Free tickets are available from 17/01/2013 at:

Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Hanoi
3 Chua Mot Cot, Hanoi
Tel: 04-38452027

Goethe- Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi