Arktos Label, distributed by SRI..
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Toronto Globe and Mail August 8, 1998: "Prochazka's passionate performance of
the Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 36 and her gorgeous sound make this work the
high point of the disc"
CD with University of Alberta Madrigal Singers, Conductor Len Ratzlaff 2001
John Tavener(1944-): Svyati (1955)
Recorded at McDougal United Church Edmonton, 2001
Arktos Label, distributed by SRI
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CD with Sylvia Shadick-Taylor 1996
Iren Bartok -soprano
Jens Lindemann -trumpet
Tanya Prochazka - cello
William Street -alto saxophone
Nandor Szederkenyi - violin
Mozart, Dvorak, Schmitt, Walton, Robbins and Denis Gougeon.
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"French" CD with Stephane Lemelin, 1995, 2nd printing 2000
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): Sonata for Cello & Piano (1948)
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924): Pieces for Cello & Piano
Camille Saint Saens (1835-1921): 2nd Sonata for Cello & Piano Opus 123
Producer Alan McLellan, recorded June 20-21, 1994 at University of Alberta
Atma Label, Distributed by Analekta, Montreal
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About TANYA MARY PROCHAZKA
Tanya was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1952 and began playing the cello at age 7.
Her grandfather was Albert Coates, famous conductor of the Kirov Opera in St. Petersburg
and the London Symphony Orchestra.
In 1969 Tanya won the Australian Broadcasting Commission's National Instrumental and Vocal Competition,
and the following year appeared as a soloist with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras,
and with the Australian Youth Orchestra in Japan and the Philippines. From 1970 to 1973 Tanya
was a student of Andre Navarra at the Paris Conservatoire. During this period she won the Suggia
Prize in London and twice visited the summer courses at the Academia Chigiana in Sienna, Italy,
and the Academie Maurice Ravel in St. Jean-de-Luz, France. In 1972 she was a prize winner at the
International Tribune of Young Interpreters in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, and performed as a soloist
in that country. In 1973 Tanya Prochazka graduated in cello and chamber music from the Paris
Conservatoire, and subsequently gave recitals in France, England, and at the Sofia Festival, Bulgaria.
She also returned briefly to Australia to perform as a recitalist and soloist with orchestra.
In 1974 Tanya Prochazka moved to Vienna. She became a member of various chamber music
ensembles including Ensemble I, the Clemencic Consort and Capella Academica, and performed
throughout Europe and the Middle East. It was with Ensemble I that she performed most
extensively, and recorded for radio in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France and Holland. She was
a prize winner at the Gaspar Cassado International Cello Competition in Florence, Italy in 1975.
In 1976 Tanya undertook further studies with Janos Starker in Bloomington, Indiana, and later that
year she was appointed "Artist in Residence", as cellist of Ensemble I, at the Victorian College of
the Arts in Melbourne Australia, for two years. This was a period of numerous concerts and
recordings as a chamber musician and soloist, in Europe as well as Australia.
In 1978 Tanya was a semifinalist at the Tchaikovsky International Competition in
Moscow, again played recitals in Australia, and the same year collaborated with Salvatore Accardo
and Bruno Giuranna in Asolo, Italy. The same year she settled in London, where her musical
activities were extremely varied. They included chamber music with Lontano, the Sirius
Ensemble, the Florestan piano trio, cello and piano recitals, and work as principal cello in
various chamber orchestras including the Scottish Baroque Ensemble, the London Mozart Players
and the English Sinfonia. She also broadcast as recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with
orchestra for the BBC and played in the Philharmonia Orchestra and for the Royal
Shakespeare Company. She taught at the Royal Academy of Music and at the Guildhall School of
Music. In August 1986 she was a professor at the 3rd Anglo-French Music Course in Martel, France.
Since her arrival in Edmonton, Canada, in 1986, Tanya has performed in Canada, USA, Germany,
UK, Russia and Australia. She performs frequently for the CBC. Tanya has performed concertos with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Alberta Baroque Ensemble. She collaborates in sonata repertoire with pianists Stephane Lemelin, Joseph Fridman, Janet Scott-Hoyt and Angela Cheng. She teaches at the University of Alberta and Alberta College. Tanya freelances in chamber and symphony orchestras in Edmonton and Banff. She plays regularly with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and in 1999 was again featured as a soloist, performing two concerti and a gamba solo with this orchestra.
In 1997 Tanya was appointed Artist-in-Residence at the University of Alberta,
in 1998 she was appointed Assistant Professor and in 2001 she was appointed
Associate Professor:
