Current position: Piano, Harpsihord and Organ: Chair of Piano Chamber Music: Professor Maja Nosowska
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Professor Maja Nosowska
e-mail: nosek@chopin.edu.pl
I began to learn the piano when I was four. I completed all three steps of my music education and graduated from the State College of Music in Warsaw as Master of Fine Arts in the class run by Professor Natalia Hornowska and Jerzy Marchwiński. I then continued to improve my piano skills under Professor Tatiana Nikolayeva at the P. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and also under Guido Agosti, Ricard Brengolo and Alain Meunier at Accademia Chigiana in Sienna.
Already as a freshman at the Warsaw College of Music I began to take interest in chamber music to which I have devoted my entire professional life, both as a performer and as a teacher. I won a prize at the First International Contemporary Music Competition in Utrecht in 1968 where I played with a violinist, I was given a congratulating letter by the jury of a competition in Vienne in 1969 when I accompanied a singer,
and then I was given many more diplomas and awards for this type of activity at other national and international competitions.
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| with Ivan Monighetti in 1991 |
Since then I have been performing very actively all over Europe, in the USA and Cuba, where my partners have been such outstanding musicians as Kaja Danczowska, Jadwiga Rappé, Oleg Krys, Ivan Monighetti, Milos Sadlo, Michael Flaksman, Jean Fournier, Wolfgang Marscher and many, many others.
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With Kaja Danczowska |
I play many forms of chamber music and many stylistic genres. In 1971 Barbara Halska and I set up the Warsaw Piano Duet and in 1974 Kaja Danczowska, Tadeusz Wojciechowski and I formed a trio. I have also co-operated in the role of harpsichord player with several Polish chamber orchestras: T. Ochlewski's, K. Teutsch's and J. Maksymiuk's. I have made a number of record and radio-television recordings for Polish Radio and Television and many European broadcasting houses. I feel a special affinity to the music of Schubert, Brahms and Szymanowski but I also like French music very much.
Another form of activity
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| With a group of students after a concert in 1998 |
My real passion is teaching which occupies just as much room in my life as performing and recording. I have been working for many years at the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music where I lead a chamber music class. For several years now I have also been teaching chamber music at the F. Chopin Secondary Music School in Warsaw. I am especially dedicated to the artistic song. I have also conducted master courses in Poland and abroad: at State California University Fresno, Nord Holland Festival Alkmaar, Accademia Tranese. Just recently I have coached singers and pianists at a course at Epsom College (England) at the Colla Voce Summer School.
I am interested in various systems of music education throughout the world and whether or not they can be transferred to our conditions here at home. In particular, I am looking closely at the appropriate and conscious use of the body in singing and playing musical instruments as well as in the communication of artistic ideas.
My deep concern for the need to keep this "instrument", i.e., the human body, in good order has led me to establish the Saint Cecilia - Health for Musicians Foundation. The main purpose of this foundation is to bring to professional musicians the awareness that they must continually care for their own psycho-physical fitness and that of their students (professional prevention) and I eventually plan to develop a rehabilitation centre for musicians.
When I am not working I like best to walk in the mountains, the woods or the countryside ... and go to the cinema.
Professor Maja Nosowska
Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music
