Professional Biography
Heralded by the press as “a brilliant young musician with a
great personality,” Elizabeth Borowsky enjoys a versatile musical career as
a solo and collaborative pianist, composer, educator, speaker, and recording artist.
“Elizabeth's performance and personality dismiss any
preconceptions of classical music as elite, or being a music of the past. She
is a vibrant and engaging performer and can draw even the most reluctant
audience member into her spell.”
Borowsky’s scintillating musical personality has led to invitations to
perform as soloist with orchestras around the world, including the Israeli Soloists Orchestra,
Lublin Philarmonic Orchestra, Polish Camerata, St. Christopher Orchestra, Šiauliai Chamber Orchestra, Young German Symphony Orchestra,
Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, and Towson University Symphony Orchestra. Her live
performance of the Haydn D-Major Concerto with the Polish Camerata was internationally
broadcast by Pol-Sat TV.
She has been a featured performer at such distinguished venues
as Carnegie Hall and The Kennedy Center, and has performed recitals in over
thirty countries in prestigious music festivals including Klavierwoche
International, the Maryland Arts Festival, Concerti di Primavera, Heidelberg
Klavierwoche, Music at the Paderewski Manor, and the International Festival of
Music and Architecture in Torun.
Borowsky has recorded CDs and DVDs of standard literature, music by living composers, and her own original compositions for ICRecords. In 2005, she was among the pianists
invited to participate in the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw and
was awarded the Acte Preable Prize for Outstanding Interpretation of Chopin's
Music, resulting in her solo album, “Chopin Recital.”
As composer, Borowsky has written
and published music for piano, violin, cello, piano trio, and string orchestra.
Her work, "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.
and she was honored with the Jerusalem Medal. Her joint collaboration with Dr.
David Marchand, “Solo Book for Winds" was
published by Imagine Music in 2011. Her works have been performed by orchestras
including the Tianjin Philharmonic (China) and Šiauliai
Chamber Orchestra (Lithuania).
Borowsky's enthusiasm for music and people is clearly visible
both on- and off- the concert stage. She enjoys sharing her musical experiences
with people of all ages and backgrounds and often reaches out to perform in
local schools and community centers. She has earned a reputation as an
outstanding teacher for young pianists; her students have garnered awards and
honors at festivals and competitions. Borowsky has taught at Indiana
University, ARTI-ST Music Education, and the Maryland Conservatory of Music. She has
been a member of the piano faculty of the International
Music Institute and Festival USA since 2003 and was appointed
Executive Director in 2010. She is Director of Piano Prodigies, LLC.
Borowsky comes from an especially musical family. The daughter
of professional cellist Cecylia Barczyk and acclaimed
sociologist-turned-music-entrepreneur Charles Borowsky, she frequently
performs together with her mother, brother (violinist Emmanuel Borowsky) and
sister (cellist Frances Grace Borowsky). Together, they are called "The
American Virtuosi." In 2008, they were invited to perform Pre-Olympic
concerts in China under the theme "One World, One Dream, One Family."
Together, the family has toured Vietnam, Indonesia, Germany, Poland, Norway,
Ukraine, Korea, Japan, and China, amongst other countries. In 2004, the
Borowsky siblings they were awarded the Erick Friedman Prize for Outstanding
Young Musicians and performed their New York debut recital at Carnegie Hall. They
have also been recipients of an Artist-in-Residence grant from the Rhein-Neckar
Kulturstiftung. They have performed with orchestras in the U.S. and abroad,
they were the featured soloists for the Young German Symphony Orchestra’s 2008
U.S. Tour.
Perhaps due to her frequent collaboration with her family, Borowsky
has earned a reputation as a skilled and sensitive collaborative artist. She
was invited by UNESCO to perform with violinist Erick Friedman and soprano
Teresa Kubiak at the International Conference on Local Music Heritage in the
Age of Globalization.
Borowsky began her piano studies at age four. At seven, she
performed her debut recital in Baltimore and by the age of nine, she was
received enthusiastically by audiences in Bulgaria, Poland, and Germany. Borowsky
studied at Indiana University - Bloomington, Towson University, and Trinity College of Music (London) and received scholarships from the Chopin Foundation of the United States, Maryland International Education Association, U.S. National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Ford Foundation, and Kosciuszko Foundation. She has been mentored by luminaries including Arnaldo
Cohen, Andrzej Jasinski, Ann Schein, Yonty Solomon, and Reynaldo Reyes.
Highlights of the 2010-11 concert season include performances for the American Tribute to Chopin celebration events and a tour Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
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