MONIKA ROSCA

Monika Rosca ukończyła z wyróżnieniem studia na Akademii Muzycznej w Łodzi w 1985 roku i została asystentką, a następnie adiunktem w klasie fortepianu prof. Tadeusza Chmielewskiego. Dalszym źródłem jej inspiracji wykonawczych były kursy mistrzowskie u prof. Rudolfa Kerera i prof. Ryszarda Baksta. Była stypendystką Towarzystwa im. Fryderyka Chopina. Jest laureatką wielu międzynarodowych i krajowych konkursów pianistycznych; m.in. Rina Sala Gallo w Monza we Włoszech, Konkursie Pianistów i Wokalistów im. Marii Callas w Atenach, Ogólnopolskiego Konkursu Muzyki Kameralnej Konkursu Pianistycznego im. Miłosza Maginaw Paryżu.Wiele koncertowała w Europie, brała udział w festiwalach pianistycznych w Dusznikach, Antoninie, Łodzi, Bordeaux, Bergerac i Tiranie. Występowała także poza Europą; m.in. w Japonii, Korei Płd., Indonezji, Indiach, Australii i w USA. Nagrywała dla Polskiego Radia i Telewizji; Polskie Nagrania wydały jej płytę z utworami J. S. Bacha, W. A. Mozarta i L. van Beethovena. Od lat podczas swych pobytów w Polsce występuje w Zelazowej Woli, Łazienkach Królewskich i w Pałacu Ostrogskich w Warszawie, a także w Pałacach Radziwiłłów w Nieborowie i Antoninie. Uznaniem cieszą się jej recitale dla Towarzystwa im. Fryderyka Chopina i Warszawskiego Towarzystwa Muzycznego w Warszawie

Monika Rosca is one of the most talented female pianists in Poland.She studied at Lodz and Warsaw Colleges of Music, graduating with distinction in 1985 as a member of Prof.Tadeusz Chmielewski's piano class.She perfected her skills as a pianist on master courses under professors such as Rudolf Kerer and Ryszard Bakst.

She has won prizes at numerous domestic and international competitions, for example:

Rina Sala Gallo, Monza, Italy

K.Szymanowski Competition,Mozart Competition,Chamber Music Competition, Lodz

Atheneum International Competition, Athens,

Milosz Magin International Competition, Paris

Musique-Esperance International Competition, Bergerac

F.Chopin All-Poland Competition for Artistic Scholarships

Miss Rosca has appeared as a solo performer and with orchestras in many countries including Poland (Piano Festivals in Slupsk, Duszniki and Antonin), Germany, France, Romania, Moldova, Albania, India, Indonesia,USA.

She has made recordings for Polish Radio and Television,as well as performing works by Bach,Mozart and Beethoven on a record released by Polskie Nagrania label.

She has won an acclaim with her performances at K.Szymanowski Competition which shows the press review:

"The only outstanding and genuinely talented pianist was Monika Rosca, who has an exellent technique and a sense of musicality which enables her to give persuasive interpretations. It has been a long time since I have heard such an exeptional performance on Chopin's Second Concerto, played with such subtlety, beautiful clarity of sound and intuition in expressing the emotional value of this work".

PHILOSOPHIES:

She is a passionate supporter of the "old" school of interpretation of the great Romantic composers.To her, playing Chopin without an emotional input and an emotional response by the audience is just "piano playing", however exellent the technique or high volume.
Although her own technique is exellent and when appropiate(eg.Chopin's Polonaise)she can and does produce high volume, her purpose when playing is always to be faithful to the emotional content of the work.
It is that passion and practice which has won Monika Rosca so much acclaim in concert halls.

Unusualy for an international performer, she willingly gives some of her time to play concerts for school-children to encourage appreciation of calssical music and frequently she combines concert with musical quiz to increase their knowledge of the works of Frederic Chopin.

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Even before commencing music studies, however, she become known to millions, in Poland and abroad, playing the lead role "Nel Rawlison" in the film " In the desert & the Wilderness" based on the book by the Nobel -Prize winning author Henryk Sienkiewicz.
Her own dramatic performance in that film delighted milions of children in Poland where over 27 million cinema tickets were sold.It also shown frequently on Polish Television.

As if such accomplishments were not enough for any one person she is also a brilliant linguist with fluency in four languages(Polish, Rumanian, Russian and English)and is interpid underwater swimmer with experience in the shark-fested waters around the Maluku Islands in Eastern Indonesia and has a magnetic charm and an infectious, sparking sense of humour-despite her natural shyness and modesty.

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