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| Cecylia Barczyk |
Cecylia Barczyk has achieved international recognition as a complete artist, successful teacher, and great humanitarian. She has given concerts, recitals, and master classes throughout Europe, Asia and both North and South America, including appearances with prominent orchestras in Berlin, Budapest, Prague, Bratislava, Moscow, Tel Aviv, Shanghai, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Jakarta, Manila, and Warsaw, and Baltimore.
Ms. Barczyk's recordings have been highly valued by experts, and geatly appreciated by music lovers in many lands (Musa, Shanxi Records, CRS, Silesiaca, Phonodisc, and ICRecords). Barczyk's two newest CDs, VCPF and Belle Epoque, have been enthusiastically received by both the public and critics. Over the years, Cecylia Barczyk has received numerous awards, honors and distinctions. She won top prizes in prestigious music competitions including the Danczowski Cello Competition (Poznan), the Pablo Cassals International Cello Competition (Budapest), the Tchaikovsky International Cello Competition (Moscow), the Aldo Parisot International Competition (Brazil), the J.S. Bach International Competition (Leipzig), the Cassado International Cello Competition (Florence), and the W.C. Byrd Young Artists Competition (Michigan). For her musical and pedagogical achievements, she has received many awards and honors from professional, cultural, and government institutions in the USA, Poland, Germany, Korea, Mexico, China, and Indonesia. The Maryland Chapter of the American String Teachers Association awarded her the title Best Teacher of the Year (1995). The Tianjin Conservatory of Music, China granted her the title Distinguished Honorary Professor. The International Friends of the Cello Association granted her the Award for Great Achievements in Cello Music, and the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland gave her the Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Society and Culture. Cecylia Barczyk began studying cello at a young age and soon drew attention of great teachers. Among her mentors were Marian Miendlar, Kazimierz Wilkomirski, Natalya Gutman and Aldo Parisot. Upon graduating with highest honors from the Silesian School of Music in Bytom and the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, she received a grant for postgraduate studies at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music in Moscow. In 1977, on the invitation of Professor Parisot, she came to the U.S.A. to study and work at the Yale School of Music. Cecylia Barczyk has been a Professor of Cello at Towson University since 1983, continuing her solo career while educating young cellists from virtually every part of the globe. Several of her students have won national/international prizes; Rafal Kwiatkowski was a first-prize winner of the Young Concert Artists International Competition and winner of international cello competitions in Munich, Santiago, and Helinski. Since 1986, she has also been the Director of the Maryland International Cello Festival. Office: CA 3094 |