Tamara-Anna Cislowska

Cislowska received her first piano lessons from her mother, Neta Maughan, a noted piano teacher from a long line of pianists and teachers. Cislowska emerged as a child prodigy, giving her first public performance at age two. She began recording material for ABC Radio at three years of age. One of her first mentors was Nancy Salas, and she later studied with Geoffrey Tozer. She won the most^{[clarification needed]} prizes of the McDonalds Sydney Performing Arts Challenge over three categories; instrumental, speech and drama, singing.

In 1991, at the age of 14, she won the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards, Australia's most prestigious classical music competition, becoming the youngest pianist to do so. A year later she was sent on a tour of Sydney's sister cities as a cultural ambassador, visiting Nagoya, Wellington and San Francisco. Cislowska was a founding member of the Australian Young Performers Trio, St Laurence Trio, Mozart Piano Quartet (Berlin) and Australia Piano Quartet.^[1]

Cislowska's recordings include five solo albums on the Artworks label, including The Enchanted Isle, The Persian Hours and The Russians. She has recorded for Naxos, Chandos, Dabringhaus and Grimm, ABC Classics, and Deutsche Grammophon. 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.

Since 2020, Cislowska has hosted the weekly radio program, Duet, on ABC Classic, described as an hour of music and conversation at the keyboard.^[2]

She has received a number of awards and honours 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.^{[citation needed]}

She was the recipient of a David Paul Landa Memorial Scholarship for Pianists (sometime before 2004)^[3]

She is a Freedman Fellow. She has an APRA award for Best Performance ACT. Her work has received six nominations for ARIA awards for Best Classical Release.^{[citation needed]}

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2015 Cislowska won Best Classical Album for Peter Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo Piano.^[4]

ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.

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Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref.
1997	The Enchanted Isle	Best Classical Album	Nominated	[6]
1998	The Persian Hours		Nominated
1999	Piano: The Russian Album		Nominated
2015	Peter Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo Piano		Won
2017	Elena Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters – Meditations on Erik Satie		Nominated
2018	Into Silence: Part Vasks Gorecki Pelecis (with Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Johannes Fritzsch)		Nominated
2022	Duet		Nominated	[7]

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