Pianist Elizabeth Borowsky CONTACT: Intermuse Performing Artists' Bureau P.O. Box 28060 Baltimore MD 21239 USA Tel/Fax: +1 (410) 426-6062 EMAIL

Although young (b. 1983), Elizabeth Borowsky has achieved international recognition as an outstanding artist of her generation. Her impressive interpretations and her great talent have been praised around the world. Since her Baltimore debut at age seven, she has been invited to perform concerts and recitals in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Some of her concerts have been nationally or internationally televised. Elizabeth's live performance of the Haydn D-Major Concerto with the Polish Camerata at the Paderewski Ad Memoriam Festival (Poland) has been broadcast world-wide by Pol-Sat TV several times since it's recording in June 1999. Her televised performance at the World Child Prodigies Concert, under the auspices of UNESCO and sponsored by the Ford and Texaco Foundations, was distributed world-wide.   

Elizabeth has received national and international awards and prizes including the International Young Artists Award (1997), the International Music Talent Award (1998), and the Heidelberg Grand Prix (1998), Best '99 CD Prize (for her highly praised debut CD, “Pearls of Music," recorded together with her brother Emmanuel), the Pro Sinfonika Award for Promoting Classical Music Among Youth (Poland), the distinguished Chopin Foundation of the United States Scholarship (four times; 2000-2003), the title of “Maryland’s Junior Miss 2001,” the Merit Award from the U. S. National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, the distinguished Cultural Achievement Award from the Middle East Consortium of the International Friends of Music (2003). Most recently, she, together with her brother Emmanuel and sister Frances Grace (known together as “The Young American Virtuosi), received the Erick Friedman Prize for Outstanding Young Musicians and performed their New York Debut at Carnegie Hall on October 31, 2004.  Elizabeth has exclusively recorded several CDs for the ICRecords Company. These recordings (Pearls of Music, Music for Peace in the Middle East, and The American Virtuosi: Musical Favorites of All Times) are distributed world-wide by www.amazon.com.   

Elizabeth has also earned a reputation as an outstanding composer. Her work, “Israeli Dance: Let Us Go to Jerusalem, the City of Peace” (dedicated to the youth of the Middle East) was premiered by the King David String Ensemble of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra at the Embassy of Israel in Washington D.C. on February 6, 2003. She was honored with the Jerusalem Medal.

Elizabeth began her piano studies at age four. She has continued her studies under the guidance of her lead-teachers Reynaldo Reyes and her mother, Cecylia Barczyk (both of the University of Maryland-Towson). She has also been mentored by Maestro Krystian Zimerman, Ward Davenny (Yale), Leon Fleisher (Peabody), Andrzej Jasinski, Maria Kolakowska-Schweiger (both of Katowice Music Academy), Veronika Jochum (New England Conservatory), Ann Schein (Peabody), Piotr Paleczny (Warsaw), and Arnaldo Cohen (Royal Academy of Music/Indiana University).

Elizabeth has been on the faculty of the International Music Institute at Coolfont since 2003. In  March-April 2005, she was invited to perform concerts and give masterclasses in Asia (Korea, Japan, Vietnam). Her concert at the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music (Vietnam) was nationally televised. Elizabeth was invited to be a US delegate to the 2005 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland; following the competition, she will perform throughout Europe. In January 2006, Elizabeth will begin her studies at Indiana University in pursuit of a Master’s Degree in Piano Performance, under the guidance of the renowned pianist Arnaldo Cohen. Elizabeth will also be teaching piano at Indiana University as an Assistant Instructor.

From Reviews:

“In playing the Gershwin Preludes, she represents Americana at it’s best!”                   
CD Debuts (USA)

"A very impressive young pianist with a great mind, delicate heart, and strong hands."
Ha Aretz (Israel)

“A superb performance by the American Virtuosi!”
Sudthüringer Zeitung (Germany)

"Elizabeth plays with interpretation, feelings, and elegance of the highest standard."
 Dziennik Zachodny (Poland)

"Miss Borowsky is a superb pianist. Her playing penetrates one's mind and soul."
Osaka News(Japan)

"Elizabeth is a fantastic young pianist!"                                                                    
Gazeta Wyborcza(Poland)

“The Borowsky siblings gave a phenomenal performance at Carnegie Hall.”
The New York Post (USA)

“She played with great virtuosity and showed her excellence in piano technique.”
Amman Times (Jordan)

“She is a brilliant young musician with a great personality.”
Aegis (U.S.A)

“Both Elizabeth and Emmanuel really deserve their place among great musicians. . . . Their performance was superb.”        
Professor Roger Kamien, Jerusalem (Israel)

"Elizabeth and Emmanuel) Borowsky are both; extraordinary and ordinary children."
Dziennik Zachodny (Poland)

"The unbelievable sounds of  Chopin's Valse Melancolique came through the fingers of the 12-year-old. Elizabeth is a very promising artist."
The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)

"Although only 14 years old, Miss Borowsky is already a great pianist."
Heidelberg Rhein-Neckar Zeitung (Germany)

Discography:

Pearls of Music, ICRecords, 1999.
Music for Peace, ICRecords, 2004.
Musical Favorites of All Times, ICRecords , 2004.

CDs available on www.amazon.com and www.cdbaby.com