Adjudicator Spotlight: Eva Maria Doroszkowska BMUS (HONS), DIPRNCM, PG DIP C.V.AMSTERDAM
Eva Maria Doroszkowska is an international pianist whose dramatic and colourful interpretation of the piano repertoire has earned her high acclaim.
“An emotionally committed pianist who sensitively conveys both the lyricism and dramatic drive of the music.”
Eva Maria won a scholarship to study at the Royal Northern College of Music winning many prizes and was generously funded by the Countess of Munster Trust to complete her postgraduate study there. She later won a government scholarship to study under Professor Jasinkski at the Szymanowski Academy in Poland and also completed her Second Phase Postgraduate Diploma studies at the Amsterdam conservatory. A travel scholarship was awarded to Eva to take the Royal Danish Academy Soloist Program and she made her debut there in the prestigious RundeTorn which also led her to work extensively in Scandinavia.
She has taken part in the International Holland Music Sessions and the International Prague–Vienna–Budapest Master Classes.
As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed throughout Europe with many festival appearances in the UK and abroad. With Polish roots, she is particularly well known for her Chopin playing. She has performed for the Chopin Society in London, at the anniversary celebrations in Bergen and at London’s St.Katherine’s Dock as part of the bicentenary of Chopin’s birth. She has also played in the Tivoli Mozart Festival in Copenhagen, the Beethoven festival in Malmo as well as many British festivals including Tunbridge Wells, Greenwich and Docklands and Edinburgh Fringe. Recently, Eva was invited to perform in Busko-Zdroj, Poland and performed Mozart’s D-minor piano concerto with the Abingdon Symphony Orchestra.
A keen interest in contemporary music has led her to work with two of this century’s finest composers, Gorecki and Per Norgard and led her to give the Uk premier of Norgard’s Cantica for Cello and Piano. Television appearances include broadcasts on the BBC and T.V. Polonia as well as Polish radio.
Eva Maria has partnered with many musicians in various chamber ensembles including the award-winning Kroger quartet, Mats Lidstrom and Sounds Collective amongst others. She has a regular partnership with the clarinettist, Vicky Wright as part of the Duo Crusell.
Alongside her performing career, Eva Maria gives workshops and master classes. She holds a teaching post at the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music. Many of her students have gone on to study music at leading conservatoires and universities both in the UK, America and Europe. Pupils have won major prizes including finalists in the Northern Piano Competition, prizes at many festivals nationally and her students have been chosen to play with Lang Lang at the South Bank.
She is also an adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals and is passionate about inspiring musicianship and creativity in all.
You can find out more about Eva on her website: https://www.evamaria.co.uk/