Magdalena Nasidlak was born in 1981 in Krakow, Poland. She began her musical education seven years later at two specialist music schools in her home city with Monika Bylica and Wojciech Cieciora. From the years 2000 till 2005 she was a student of renowned professor and concert pianist, Ewa Bukojemska at the Krakow Music Academy. In 2004, her penultimate year in Krakow, Magdalena won a scholarship for the Socrates/Erasmus Programme to study for eight months in the United Kingdom at the Birmingham Conservatoire. In 2005, after finishing in Krakow, Magdalena returned to Birmingham to study for an Advanced Postgraduate Solo Diploma with Professors Malcolm Wilson and Mark Racz, graduating in 2006. She has also received lessons from musicians including Kevin Kenner (Krynica, Poland), Hans-Jurg Strub (Schloss Weidenkam, Germany), Norma Fisher (London Masterclasses), Victor Derevianko and Peter Takacs (Tel Hai International Piano Masterclasses, Israel), Peter Donohoe, Mikhail Kazaevich, Andrew Ball and Vanessa Latarcha. Chamber music masterclasses and consultations include members of Maggini Quartet, Schubert Ensemble, Daniel Hoexter and Rivka Golani.
Magdalena is a recipient of numerous prizes and awards. In 2004 she won the Ludlow Philharmonic Concerto Prize and a prestigious prize for Best Performance of a Polish Piece in the 8th International Contemporary Chamber Music Competition in Krakow, Poland. In September 2006 she won 2nd prize in the 10th International Contemporary Chamber Music Competition in a duo together with the award winning recorder player, Christopher Orton. Magdalena is also a scholar of the Friends of Cracow Society in Chicago where she was awarded the scholarship twice as an outstanding student of Krakow University or College, the Polish Ministry of Culture and recently the Diana Green Scholarship in the UK. Her studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire were possible thanks to this Award.
Magdalena has performed throughout Poland, Germany, the UK, Sweden and Israel with her solo repertoire, and also chamber music and accompanying. She is very keen and committed to performing contemporary music, playing in an exciting duo with Christopher Orton, mainly 20th and 21st century repertoire. A number of up-and-coming young composers from the UK, Sweden and Poland are currently writing for the duo.
Some examples of Magdalenas recent performances include a recital at Harlaxton Manor, a concert in the much celebrated CBSO Centre, The New Generation Arts Festival in Birmingham and several concerts within Mid Wales Music Week.
Magdalena is currently a piano tutor in the Junior Department of the Birmingham Conservatoire and King Henry 8th School in Coventry. Since September 2008 she is also Head of Keyboard Department in Bloxham School, Oxfordshire. In 2006 she was made a full member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians.
Magdalena is a recipient of numerous prizes and awards. In 2004 she won the Ludlow Philharmonic Concerto Prize and a prestigious prize for Best Performance of a Polish Piece in the 8th International Contemporary Chamber Music Competition in Krakow, Poland. In September 2006 she won 2nd prize in the 10th International Contemporary Chamber Music Competition in a duo together with the award winning recorder player, Christopher Orton. Magdalena is also a scholar of the Friends of Cracow Society in Chicago where she was awarded the scholarship twice as an outstanding student of Krakow University or College, the Polish Ministry of Culture and recently the Diana Green Scholarship in the UK. Her studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire were possible thanks to this Award.
Magdalena has performed throughout Poland, Germany, the UK, Sweden and Israel with her solo repertoire, and also chamber music and accompanying. She is very keen and committed to performing contemporary music, playing in an exciting duo with Christopher Orton, mainly 20th and 21st century repertoire. A number of up-and-coming young composers from the UK, Sweden and Poland are currently writing for the duo.
Some examples of Magdalenas recent performances include a recital at Harlaxton Manor, a concert in the much celebrated CBSO Centre, The New Generation Arts Festival in Birmingham and several concerts within Mid Wales Music Week.
Magdalena is currently a piano tutor in the Junior Department of the Birmingham Conservatoire and King Henry 8th School in Coventry. Since September 2008 she is also Head of Keyboard Department in Bloxham School, Oxfordshire. In 2006 she was made a full member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians.
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