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„Pure substance“, Ewa Kupiec is praised by
Fono Forum, Germany’s leading magazine for classical music. The Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung certifies: “Kupiec plays with a rare mixture of spirit, a
faultless technique, a complete understanding of musical texture and an ability
to shape music with transparency and an impressive richness of colours. Her
playing is brilliant but never obtrusive, full of atmosphere and subtly
virtuosic.”
Ewa Kupiec regularly performed at the world’s leading festivals and with major
orchestras, which in recent seasons have included Munich Philharmonic, Sao
Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony,
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Royal Danish Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Melbourne
Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, and
Orchestre de Paris. Conductors she worked with include Andrés Orozco-Estrada,
Marin Alsop, Neeme Järvi, Ingo Metzmacher, Xian Zhang, Sakari Oramo, Semyon
Bychkov, Giancarlo Guerrero, Herbert Blomstedt, Krzysztof Penderecki, Lothar
Zagrosek, Gilbert Varga, Christoph Poppen, Andrey Boreyko and Marek Janowski.
Renowned Polish maestro Stanislaw Skrowaczewski has initiated and supported an
exceptionally fruitful musical collaboration between the two, and as such they
have performed all over the world and, released in 2003, recorded Chopin’s
piano concerti together.
Ewa Kupiec is a dedicated interpreter of contemporary music. Her Berlin
Konzerthaus performance in 2005 of Schnittke’s First Piano Concerto with the
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra was the first performance of this work since
1964 and was released by Phoenix in 2008, together with other Schnittke works
for piano and orchestra. Her recital and chamber music programs often include
contemporary works, and different composers have dedicated pieces to her. As a
result of this collaboration a CD “Conception” with works of R. Meyers and A.
Bibalo was released in 2005.
2014 saw four special releases: Polish composer’s Andrzej Panufnik’s piano
concerto for the complete recording of his œvre, together with the Konzerthausorchester
Berlin for cpo (ICMA Special Achievement Award 2015), Grażyna Bacewicz‘ piano quintet
arranged for piano and string orchestra for the Naxos label together with the
Capella Bydgostiensis – awarded the prestigious Fryderyk Award in
Poland (2015)
Among other numerous recordings are works by Szymanowski (ECHO Klassik 1997)
and Paderewski. For Sony, she recorded Władysław Szpilman’s music, known from
the movie „The Pianist“.
2007 Haenssler released her recording of Janacek‘s solo works and 2010 saw the
release of Żal, with solo works by Chopin and Schubert. In 2011, in cooperation
with Deutschlandfunk, she published a CD with solo works by Kodály and Enescu
(Solaris). 2012 saw the release of Chopin’s piano concertos
and Nocturnes selection on the Australian ABC label, and 2013 the premiere
recording of Lutosławski’s works for piano solo (Sony). In 2014 Chopin’s works
for piano and cello with Johannes Moser (Hänssler) and piano quintets by
Scharwenka and Dvorak with the Armida Quartet (Solaris).
She is giving masterclasses around Europe and has been a member of the Jury of renowned Competitions like ARD/ Germany, Sydney/Australia, Busoni/Italy, Beethoven/Bonn-Germany and Maj Lind/Finland.
Ewa Kupiec was born in
Duszniki-Zdroj/ Poland, studied in Katowice, the Chopin Academy in Warsaw and
at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
In 1992 she won the ARD Music Competition
(category duo piano/cello).
Since autumn 2011, she is a professor for
piano at the Hanover University for Music, Drama and Media.
In July 2018 Ewa has been elected as a
member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Ewa Kupiec currently lives in Hannover.
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