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Magdalena Adamek holds a Master of Arts in Piano Performance
from the Frederick Chopin University of Music (Warsaw, Poland) under
tutelage of widely respected interpreter of Chopin’s music,
Professor Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, and Doctor of Music in Piano
Performance from the University of Alberta, under supervision of
Professor Jacques Després. Dr. Adamek also worked under the guidance
of such renown pianists as Halina Czerny-Stefanska, Andrzej
Jasinski, Paul Badura-Škoda, Stęphane Lemelin, Kyoko Hashimoto, and
Kevin Fitz-Gerald. She has led an active performing career giving
performances across Poland, Germany, Austria, Lithuania, France,
China, USA, and Canada, with repertoire ranging from the classical
period to the contemporary music. Her long-term artistic project
involves promoting piano music by Polish composers, for instance
Chopin, Moniuszko, Szymanowski, and post-romantic composer Feliks
Nowowiejski. Over the past few years the artistic project concerning
Nowowiejski involved world premiere recordings of Nowowiejski’s
music for piano solo, doctoral essay devoted to Nowowiejski’s music
for piano solo (“Piano Works by Feliks Nowowiejski.”),
presentations, and book The Unknown Face of Feliks Nowowiejski:
The Piano Works, published by VDM in Germany.
Dr. Adamek has been a recipient of
numerous prestigious scholarly and performing awards including Izaak
Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, Dissertation Fellowship, Mary
Louise Imrie Graduate Award, FS Chia PhD Scholarship, Beryl Barns
Memorial Graduate Scholarship, Harriet Snowball Winspear Graduate
Prize in Performing Arts scholarship (University of Alberta), and
also Marek Jablonski Piano Scholarship for the Banff International
Keyboard Festival and a scholarship by Polish Ministry of Culture
and National Heritage (awarded twice). Her projects have been also
supported by Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European
Studies, The Polonia Foundation of Alberta, Polish Culture Society
in Edmonton, Polish Federation of Women in Edmonton, Polish
Combatants Society of Edmonton, Consulate General of the Republic of
Poland in Vancouver, and Alberta Registered Music Teachers’
Association.
Magdalena Adamek has been a laureate of the 2nd prize and a special
distinction for the best performance of piano works by Frederick
Chopin at International Milosz Magin Piano Competition in Paris, 3rd
prize in the piano trio category at Kiejstut Bacewicz International
Chamber Music Competition in Lódz, Poland, 3rd prize at the National
Piano Competition in Warsaw, and distinction at the National Chamber
Music Competition in Warsaw. She also represented Poland at the II
European Piano Forum at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin.
Magdalena Adamek’s discography
includes five compact discs for an independent Polish label Acte
Prčalable with works of such composers as Feliks Nowowiejski, Milosz
Magin, Romuald Twardowski, Jozef Elsner. The latest recording
project involves a CD Romantic Central Europe, which was made
in collaboration with the Wirth Institute of Austrian and Central
European Studies at the University of Alberta.Magdalena Adamek’s
performances have been broadcast on CBC, Polish National Radio,
Radio France, and ABC Radio Classic FM.
Since June 2005 Magdalena Adamek
has served on the Board of the Marek Jablonski Endowment Fund,
which supports young musical talents in Alberta.
Between 2066 and 2011 she taught
piano and chamber music, and served as collaborative pianist at the
University of Alberta. Currently she is Piano Instructor at Alberta
Music Academy and Alberta College Conservatory of Music (Grant
McEwan University) in Edmonton.
In addition to performing,
Magdalena Adamek has been in demand as adjudicator and workshop
presenter, both locally and provincially.
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