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MICHAŁ ĆWIŻEWICZ - VIOLINIST
Born in London in 1984 violinist Michał
Ćwiżewicz began his musical studies with Lisette
Meguerditchian at the Alexandria Conservatoire
in Egypt at the age of three. Numerous awards
and scholarships allowed Michal to continue his
studies in London with distinguished teachers
Krzysztof Smietana and, since 2005, with Itzhak
Rashkovsky.
Michal has recently completed with distinction
an RCM Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced
Performance and has won the RCM’s Concerto
Competition, First-prize and Audience-award at
the Eastbourne Young Soloist Competition and, on
two occasions, the Imperial College Concerto
Competition. Whilst in the first year of his
Aeronautics degree, Michal was string finalist
in the BBC Young Musician Competition 2004 and
appeared on BBC4 Television. In 2007 Michał
graduated with Masters in Aeronautical
Engineering from Imperial College concluding
with a research project into the aerodynamics of
insect flight.
Michał has performed as concerto soloist in the
UK, Spain and France including venues St John’s
Smith Square, La Madeleine in Paris and London’s
Cadogan Hall and with Guildford, Epsom,
Eastbourne, and St Bartholomew Festival symphony
orchestras. His appearances abroad have
included recitals at the festival Musicale en
Vaux d’Yonne in France, Polish Festival in
Zakopane with Justyna Danczowska and at the
Princess Daisy International Chamber Arts
Festival in Poland together with Paul Gulda.
Michal also plays Carpathian and Balkan folk
music and since 1993 has performed regularly
with the Polish highland band Giewont. In 1997
he won first prize at the folk fiddlers'
competition in Bukowina Tatrzanska in Poland –
playing the distinct music from Podhale that
inspired Szymanowski.
Michał’s studies have been generously supported
by the Wingate Foundation, Musicians Benevolent
Fund, Craxton Trust, Joan Weller Award,
Philharmonia's John E. Mortimer and Sidney Perry
Awards, South Square Trust, Bartholomew Wilkins
Charitable Trust and the Countess of Munster
Trust. Michal performs on G.B. Guadagnini 1743
on generous loan from Florian Leonhard Fine
Violins.
For further information, visit
www.michalcwizewicz.com
JOHN PAUL EKINS - PIANIST
Increasingly in demand as a recitalist, concerto
soloist and chamber musician, John Paul Ekins
has given performances throughout the UK and
Northern Ireland, and overseas in Italy,
Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Spain and the
Czech Republic, and his playing has been
broadcast on the BBC. In 2009 he graduated from
the Royal College of Music with First Class
Honours, studying with John Barstow, MBE. In the
same year he was awarded the James Anthony Horne
Scholarship by the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama to begin postgraduate study with Charles
Owen on the Artist in Performance course. He was
also the recipient of a Music Education Award
from the Musicians Benevolent Fund, and receives
support from the Concordia Foundation.
Competition successes include 2nd Prizes in the
Amy Brant International Piano Competition, the
San Sebastian International Piano Competition,
and the Oxford International Piano Competition.
Along with this, in past years he has been named
the Kingston, Woking and Croydon Festivals'
Young Musician of the Year, and the Richmond
Festival's Pianist of the Year.
This season’s highlights include recitals in
London, Bath, Rome, Bucharest, Bognor Regis,
Harting, Belfast, Cardiff, Woking, Woodbridge
and Warminster. With orchestra he performs
Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto, Gershwin's
Rhapsody in Blue the Grieg Concerto and Franck’s
Symphonic Variations.
He has also been accepted onto the prestigious
Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme 2010,
where he will take part in masterclasses with
soprano Louise Alder.
John Paul has an extensive chamber music
repertoire, and is a member of the Erato Piano
Trio, past winners of the Anglo-Czechoslovak
Trust Competition. As well ad performing
regularly with them around the UK, they are also
currently recording the complete Haydn Piano
Trios in Paris, the first disc of which will be
released later this year.
For more information, visit
www.jpekinspianist.com
or
www.eratopianotrio.com
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