Professor Ewa Pobłocka

Ewa Pobłocka started her piano edu­ca­tion under Krystyna Lewińska at the age of five. She com­pleted her piano stud­ies at the State Higher School of Music in Gdańsk under Pro­fes­sor Zbi­gniew Śliwiń­ski and Pro­fes­sor Jerzy Suli­kow­ski, obtain­ing a diploma with hon­ours (1981). She con­tin­ued her post­grad­u­ate stud­ies in Ham­burg under Con­rad Han­sen (1979−1982). She had artis­tic con­sul­ta­tions from Jan­ina Sukien­nic­ka, Rudolf Kerer (1977), Tatiana Niko­laeva (1981) and Mar­tha Arge­rich (1981). She began her per­for­mances in a duo with her mother Zofia Janukowicz-Pobłocka, out­stand­ing singer (1970). In 1977 she won the 1^st Prize at the Inter­na­tional G. Viotti Com­pe­ti­tion in Ver­cella, two years later (1979) she was given a Golden Medal at the Inter­na­tional Fes­ti­val of Young Lau­re­ates in Bor­deaux. In 1980 she won the 5^th Prize at the 10^th Fry­deryk Chopin Piano  Com­pe­ti­tion, dur­ing which she also won the Pol­ish Radio award for the best per­for­mance of mazurkas.

For 25 years Ewa Pobłocka has been con­tin­u­ing her Carter of a con­cert pianist. She has per­formed in almost all Euro­pean coun­tries, both Amer­i­cas and in Japan, Aus­tralia, Korea, Sin­ga­pore. She was applauded in such places as: Herkules-Saal in Munich, Musi­khalle in Ham­burg, Audi­to­rio Nacio­nal in Madrid, Bar­bi­can Cen­tre and Wig­more Hall in Lon­don, Musi­kve­rein in Vienna, Lin­coln Cen­ter in New York, Glenn Gould Stu­dio in Toronto. She was a soloist of: Lon­don Sym­phony Orche­stra, Eng­lish Cham­ber Orche­stra, Orche­stra del Mag­gio Musi­cale Fio­ren­tino, Bay­eri­scher Rund­fun­kor­che­ster, Nie­de­röster­re­ichi­sches Ton­kün­stle­ror­che­ster and of key Pol­ish orches­tras, such as:  Sym­phony Orches­tra of the National Phil­har­monic in War­saw, Sin­fo­nia Varso­via, National Sym­phony Orches­tra of the Pol­ish Radio in Katow­ice. She went on a few con­cert tours abroad with the ensem­ble of the National Phil­har­monic in War­saw under the baton of Kazi­mie­rz Kord (1984, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1998).

The artist suc­cess­fully per­forms cham­ber music giv­ing con­certs with singers, vio­lin­ists and string quartets.

Ewa Pobłocka has done many record­ings for radio broad­cast­ing sta­tions and TV sta­tions in Poland and abroad. For the record com­pa­nies: Pol­skie Nagra­nia “Muza”, Deut­sche Gram­mo­phon, Vic­tor JVC, Grüner & Jahr, Coni­fer Records, KOS War­saw Records, BeAr­Ton, CD Accord, Pony Canyon she recorded works by Chopin (all Noc­turnes, all Bal­lads, all Sonatas, Piano Con­certo in F Minor, Fan­ta­sia on the Pol­ish Themes, Mazurkas and oth­ers), Field (all Noc­turnes), Bach (all Par­titas), Schu­bert (com­plete Impromp­tus), Grieg (Piano Con­certo in A Minor), Mozart (Piano Con­cer­tos), Beetho­ven (Piano Con­certo in C Major), Ravel (Piano Con­certo in GMa­jor), Saint-Saëns (Piano Con­certo in G Minor), and con­cer­tos by Panuf­nik, Luto­sław­ski, Paweł Szy­mań­ski and Paweł Mykie­tyn. More­over, with singers Jad­wiga Rappé, Ewa Pod­leś and Olga Pasiecz­nik she recorded recitals of songs by such com­posers as: Kar­ło­wi­cz, Szy­ma­now­ski, Brahms, Duparc, Debussy, Poulenc and Luto­sław­ski. Some of her albums received phono­graphic awards.

Apart from her con­cert activ­ity she also per­forms teach­ing activ­ity. Since 2000 she has run piano class at the Feliks Nowowiejski Acad­emy of Music in Byd­goszcz, as well as mas­ter classes in Cal­gary and Tokyo, and since 2007 she has been Pro­fes­sor at Warsaw’s uni­ver­sity of music. The artist was a jury mem­ber at piano com­pe­ti­tions in Poland and abroad.

In 2004 Ewa Pobłocka was a lau­re­ate of the annual award of the Min­is­ter of Cul­ture, in the same year she was dec­o­rated with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polo­nia Resti­tuta by Pres­i­dent of the Repub­lic of Poland. In Decem­ber 2003 the artist was appointed as a mem­ber of the Pro­gramme Coun­cil of the National Insti­tute of Fry­deryk Chopin.