| Biography | Pawel Siwczak is a solo harpsichordist and historical keyboard specialist, winner of the 8th Broadwood Harpsichord Competition (2007), the Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize (2006, Musica Britannica), and the award of the Minister of Culture of Poland ('Mloda Polska' 2009).
Pawel was a Junior Fellow at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and currently teaches at the Royal Academy of Music and at Morley College in London.
In 2004 he completed his postgraduate piano studies with Elzbieta Tarnawska at the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, where he also studied harpsichord with Wladyslaw Klosiewicz.
Pawel's early music ensembles Triologue and Four Temperaments won Early Music Prizes at the Royal Academy of Music, in 2006 & 2007. Triologue has since performed at Festivals in the UK and abroad, including the Brighton Early Music Festival in 2008 & 2009. Four Temperaments was awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship at the Academy for 2007/2008 - the first early music group to receive this honour.
Pawel Siwczak studied harpsichord & fortepiano with Carole Cerasi and clavichord & continuo with Terence Charlston and in 2008 he received a master of Music degree (with distinction) from the Royal Academy ofMusic and a special prize for an outstanding final recital (DipRAM).
Pawel has toured internationally, performing with orchestras such as Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Gabrieli Consort & Players, The Kings Consort, Retrospect Ensemble, BBC Philharmonic, Northern Sinfonia, Britten Sinfonia, and others conducted by Sir Mark Elder, William Christie, Trevor Pinnock, Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Pawel has recorded for the BBC Early Music Show with soprano Rachel Nicholls and appeared on BBC Radio 3 In Tune. His CDs include Bach arranging and arranged, with The Bach Players (2008) and Stephen Dodgsons music for guitar and harpsichord (2009). |