Tamara Cislowska

Background

Cislowska was taught the rudiments of the piano by her mother, Neta Maughan, Department of Administration and Management.

Career

She has performed across most of the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Germany, Colombia, Greece, The Netherlands and Poland, and has associated with the Philharmonia, the London Philharmonic and Romanian Philharmonic orchestras as well as all six major Australian symphonies. She emerged as a child prodigy, giving her first public performance at age two. She began recording material for American Broadcasting Company Radio at three years of age.

Cislowska"s recordings include five solo albums on the Artworks label, including "The Enchanted Isle", "The Persian Hours" and "The Russians".

She has contributed to albums with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. As a recitalist she has performed at the Purcell Room in London, the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House, the Kleine Zaal of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and in New York at the Frick Collection and Carnegie Hall.

The Australian opera singer Eva Mylott (1875–1920), grandmother of Mel Gibson, was a relative of Cislowska"s family.

Achievements

• She won the 1991 American Broadcasting Company Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards, Australia"s most prestigious classical music award, at the age of 14, becoming the youngest pianist ever to do southern She has received a number of awards and honors for her work and has been a major prizewinner at several international piano competitions, including the Rovere d"Oro, Maria Callas and National World Power. Her work has received three nominations for ARIA awards for "Best Classical Release". At the ARIA Music Awards of 2015 Cislowska won Best Classical Album for Peter Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo Piano. Her mother, Neta Maughan Department of Administration and Management, is an accomplished piano teacher.