Pawel Siwczak, harpsichordist & early keyboard specialist, graduated with honours from the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. He is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree at the Royal Academy of Music with the support of the Isabel May Walton Award, and earlier the Peter Le Huray Award. He studies harpsichord and fortepiano with Carole Cerasi, as well as clavichord with Terence Charlston.

In May 2007 Pawel won the 8th Broadwood Harpsichord Competition; in April 2006 he won the Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize founded by Musica Britannica Trust for the performance of early English music.

Pawel Siwczak performs actively as a soloist and with chamber ensembles, including the Donum Musicum Baroque quartet. He has played in orchestras conducted by Laurence Cummings, William Christie and Simon Standage, and his touring activities have taken him to countries such as France, Holland, Sweden, Malta, Russia, England and Poland. Pawel has also founded The King’s Private Musick, a period instrument ensemble specializing in performing vocal-instrumental music.

He has taken part in masterclasses with prominent musicians, including Kenneth Gilbert, James Johnstone and Elzbieta Czerny-Stefanska. Pawel Siwczak has taught keyboard studies at the Warsaw Academy and participated in a project of the Polish National Philharmony in Warsaw which aimed to popularise Baroque dance amongst young people.

 

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