Free entry!– RSVP is essential to reserve your free ticket (general admission, tickets will be reserved on a first-come, first-serve basis) – by e-mail: marta.kiec-gubala@msz.gov.pl or by phone: 9363 9816.

Anna Kijanowska is coming to Sydney on a tour encompassing New Zealand and several cities in Australia.

Hailed by The New York Times (2007) as "An excellent young Polish pianist," Anna Kijanowska has distinguished herself internationally as a recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist. A devoted promoter of the music of Karol Szymanowski, her recording of his Mazurkas (DUX, 2005) has already gained substantial recognition and was recently named by Adrian Corleonis of Fanfare Magazine "as superior to any other interpretations that came before or after hers." Mr. Muse of the Classik Reviews called the performance a "revelation," while Mr. Leonard of All Music Guide noted, "Kijanowska's performances are amazingly virtuosic, astonishingly charismatic, astoundingly empathic and completely compelling."

Anna Kijanowska’s past and upcoming engagements include solo recitals at Carnegie and Merkin Halls in NYC, the National Gallery of Arts and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Harvard University in Boston, North-West University in South Africa, the French Institute in New Delhi, India, the Polish Embassi in Tokyo, Singapore and Bangkok, Chinese Conservatory in Beijing, and orchestral appearances in the Ukraine and Poland (Piano Concerti by Lutoslawski and Gorecki). As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with such eminent performers as Charles Castleman, Diane Monroe and Basil Vendryes.

Anna Kijanowska began her musical education in Poland at the age of seven, and gave her first recital at age eight. In 1992, she entered the Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice, where she studied with Prof. Jozef Stompel. After receiving her Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the Music Academy in Wroclaw, she was awarded a scholarship to study with Dr. Madeleine Forte (pupil of Alfred Cortot and Wilhelm Kempff) at Boise State University in the United States. She holds a Doctorate and a Master of Music in Piano Performance from the Manhattan School of Music in New York, where she studied with Byron Janis (pupil of Vladimir Horowitz), Mykola Suk (pupil of Lev Vlasenko), Sara Davis Buechner (pupil of Mieczyslaw Munz) and Marc Silverman. Ms. Kijanowska is currently a visiting professor at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, and she is a former faculty member of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and the Levine School of Music in Washington DC.