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Artist description
Recordings and live performances by cellist
DARIUSZ SKORACZEWSKI. » |
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Music Style
Classical |
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Musical Influences
Feuermann, Heifetz, Shafran, Rostropovich, Kates |
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Artist History
Cellist, DARIUSZ SKORACZEWSKI has received many prizes including first place awards in the Young Artist String Competition in Santa Barbara, California, the Mary Graham Lasley Concerto Competition of the Alexandria Symphony and the Baltimore Music Club Co mpetition. He was a semi finalist at the Eleventh International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and received the Gery Mois Prize at the 2001 Third International Leonard Rose Competition.
Mr. Skoraczewski was a Principal Cellist and a resident guest ar tist with the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra during the 1996-98 Seasons. He performed as a soloist with the Montgomery Symphony, the Alexandria Symphony, the Music Academy of the West Orchestra and the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra.
Summer studies inc luded Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, Pacific Music Festival in Japan, Ithaca Violoncello Institute in New York, String Courses in Baden-Baden, Germany and in Lancut, Poland. Dariusz was invited twice to perform at the Gregor Piatigorsky Semin ar for Cellists at USC in Los Angeles. He is a faculty member at the Apple Hill Chamber Music Festival and the Adirondack Music Festival.
A native of Poland, Mr. Skoraczewski graduated from the Peabody Conservatory of Music where he was a student of Professor Stephen Kates. Most recently Mr. Skoraczewski won a third chair cello position with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under the directorship of Maestro Yuri Temirkanov. Upcoming solo concerts include the Elgar Concerto with the Columbia Orchestra in October 2003.
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Instruments
Cello |
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Press Reviews
"Bach was... played with considerable warmth... effectively exlored
Beethoven's sonata, and then had a field day with David Popper's Dance of
the Elves. ...his nimble scampering through phrase after lighthearted
phrase
was delectable."
Baltimore Su n… |
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Location
Elkridge, MD - USA |
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