Essence of Violin

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In recent seasons Polish violinist Magdalena Filipczak has performed in the UK (including Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, St Martin in the Fields, St John’s Smith Square), Europe as well as South America, Canada and the USA. Recently she was one of the Holland Music Sessions’ New Masters on Tour 2015/16, which included her debut recital at Het Concertgebouw Kleine Zaal in Amsterdam.
Among her many competition successes, Magdalena was the winner of the 2008 IV Heino Eller International Violin Competition in Estonia. She has been awarded numerous scholarships including 'Młoda Polska' by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
In THE STRAD Julian Haylock wrote about Magdalena’s solo debut disc ‘Essence of Violin’: ‘...glittering....beguiling... captivating...hauntingly atmospheric...’. She has also recorded chamber music works by Schoenberg and Webern with group Montebello, and with the Royal Northern Sinfonia violin solos for Tim Garland’s ‘Songs to the North Sky’, (5 stars by the BBC Music Magazine and the Guardian).
In concerts Magdalena has collaborated with Peter Frankl, Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Clive Green- smith, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Krzysztof Jabłoński, Volker Jacobsen, Gilbert Kalish, London Mozart Trio, Charles Neidich, Rohan de Saram, Krzysztof Śmietana, Colin Stone, Roger Tapping, Donald Weilerstein.
Magdalena has appeared at Music Festivals such as Proms, City of London Festival (UK), Edin- burgh Fringe (Scotland), Yellow Barn (USA), Krzyżowa-Music (Poland), Ryedale Festival (UK), Swaledale Festival (UK), Norfolk Festival (USA), Paxos Chamber Music Festival (Greece), Lid- köping Festival (Sweden), Tallinn Chamber Music Festival (Estonia). Magdalena has recorded for the BBC Radio 3, Chicago WFMT Radio, Canadian Radio, Polish, Austrian and Estonian TV and Radio. She toured Brazil and Argentina as a guest leader/director with the Tallinn Chamber Or- chestra.
Magdalena studied violin with Krzysztof Śmietana and additionally classical singing with John Evans at the Guildhall School. She teaches at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London (Junior Department).

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