Current position: Piano, Harpsihord and Organ: Chair of Piano: Professor Anna Jastrzębska-Quinn
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Professor Anna Jastrzębska-Quinn
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Professor
Anna Jastrzębska-Quinn
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Winner of the First Prize at the International Chopin Competition in Majorca in 1982 and international piano competitions in Barcelona (1975) and Santander (1979).
She received a diploma for participation in the 9th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw where she was a member of the Polish team and passed to Stage 2.
In 1968-1974, as winner of national competitions, she was a 7-times scholar of the F. Chopin Society in Warsaw and the Ministry of Culture and Art.
She graduated with honours from the Higher School of Music (now the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music) in Warsaw in 1976 where she studied in Professor Jan Ekier's class; the Geneva Conservatory in 1979, Professor Harry Datyner's class (virtuoso diploma); the Banff School of Fine Arts in Canada in 1981/1982 where she attended postgraduate courses led by Gyorgy Seboka, Menahem Pressler, Anton Kuerti and others.
She has been performing since she was 16.
One of the pivotal moments in her artistic career was her performance with the National Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra conducted by Karol Teutsch at the National Philharmonic when she was still a student (1974). Ever since, she has given recitals, played with chamber orchestras and symphony orchestras in nearly all philharmonics in Poland and also in Spain, Switzerland, China, Canada, Germany, Austria and Uruguay.
She has a large repertory in which Chopin's music has a special place.
She has played with such conductors as: Pierre Colombo, Renato Rivolta, Werner Pfaff, Pierre Hetu, Tang Li Hua, Ruben Gurevich, Larry Livingston, Romely Pfund, Klaus Zoephel, Juli Ribelles, Karol Teutsch, Jerzy Katlewicz, Wojciech Michniewski, Stefan Marczyk, Maciej Niesiołowski, Tadeusz Strugała, Szymon Kawalla, Zygmunt Hassa, Adam Natanek, Marek Pijarowski, Andrzej Rozmarynowicz, Włodzimierz Porczyński, Stefan Strahl, Piotr Warzecha, Jan Ślęk and Jerzy Herter.
As a chamber musician she has played with Kaja Danczowska (violinist), Raphael Hillier (violist), Shauna Rolston (celloist), David Stewart (violonist) and others.
She has taken part in many festivals including "The Generation of the Musicians of the 30th Anniversary of the Polish people's Republic" and the "Young Musicians festival" at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, the Polish Piano Festival in Słupsk, the F. Chopin Festival in Duszniki, the Music Festivals in Banff (Canada), Valencia (Spain) and Villena (Spain).
She has made radio and television recordings for Polish Radio and Television (including many archival recordings), RIAS in Berlin, Canadian Broadcast in Montreal, Radio Suiss Romande in Geneva. He has also made record recordings for Polskie Nagrania and the Spanish record companies SOMAGIC and Tabelet Estudis (CD). Her most important recordings are:
F. Chopin's Piano Concerto E-Minor and W. A. Mozart's Piano Concerto D-minor with Suiss Romande orchestra conducted by P. Colombo;
W. A. Mozart's concertos for 2 and 3 pianos with the Canadian Broadcast Orchestra in Montreal;
K. Szymanowski's Masques for Radio Suiss were the first recording of the work for this radio.
Anna Jastrzębska-Quinn has also published in Poland and abroad and is co-editor of T. Ciurana's collection of Sonatas (Ciurana was a Spanish composer of the classicist period) based on recently found manuscripts.
She has presented scientific papers and conducted seminars and master courses in Poland, Spain, China, Austria and Uruguay. She has also sat on competition juries in Poland, Estonia and Spain.
She acts as consultant for the Artistic Education Centre and is an expert of the Ministry of Education. She has worked at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw since 1979 with an interlude of several years when she was abroad. As professor at the Chair of Piano she teaches full-time students and postgraduate students from Poland, Spain, South Korea, Norway, Greece and Japan. She teaches in Polish, English, French, Spanish and Russian.
She also teaches a piano class at the Z. Brzewski Music High School in Warsaw.
Her students have won many national and international competitions (about 30 prizes and awards of distinction) and been granted many artistic scholarships, e.g., by the Minister of Culture and Art.
Anna Jastrzębska-Quinn has a passion for teaching. She treats each student individually and adjusts her methods to the student?s aptitude, personality and level of advancement. She believes that academic studies should stimulate artistic creativity supported by solid piano technique and that they should train independent professionals.
Compiled by: The Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music