Joanna Kielar

Joanna Kielar was born in 1984 in Sanok. She took up her cello studies at the age of nine under the teacher Wojciech Pelczar at the Music School in Sanok. Since 1999 she has been a student of Andrzej Orkisz at the Brzewski Music School in Warsaw and now she continues her musical education under the same profesor at the Chopin Music Academy together with studies in Sibelius Music Academy in Helsinki under renowed russian cellist and composer- Victoria Yagling.Joanna is a prize-winner of many national and international cello competitions, including 2nd Prize at the International L. van Beethoven Cello Competition in Hradec (Czech Republic, 2005), 3rd Prize at the International Cello Competition in Liezen (Austria, 1998 and 2000), 2nd Prize (2000) and 3rd Prize (1999) at the K. Wilkomirski’s Youth Cello Competition in Poznan (Poland), 2nd Prize at the Polish Nationwide Cello Competition in Elblag (Poland, 2000) and Grand Prix and the 1st Prize at the Polish Nationwide Cello Competition in Wroclaw (Poland, 1995). In 1998 and 2000 she was awared a Scholarship of the Polish Prime Minister , in 1998 and 2000 she was awared a Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.Many times she was presented at prestige concert halls, eg. debut at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw (with Warsaw Chamber Orchestra), at the Witold Lutoslawski’s Concert Studio of the Polish Radio and Television in Warsaw, in The National Finnish Opera in Helsinki, in Rzeszow Philharmonic (with Rzeszow Symphony Orchestra), in Jelenia Gora Philharmonic (at the festival “Stars promote” with Dolnoslaska Symphony Orchestra),at the Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw, at the Royal Castle in Warsaw and at Atma in Zakopane( Karol Szymanowski’s house).She also took part in many masterclasses led by famous and renowed cellists like prof. Bernard Greenhouse(USA), prof. Karine Georgian (Manchester, UK), prof. Victoria Yagling (Helsinki, Finland), prof. Gary Hoffman prof. Michael Flaksman (Mannheim, Germany), prof. Claus Reichardt (Dusseldorf, Germany), prof. Frieder Berthold (Germany), prof. Andrzej Orkisz (Warsaw, Poland), prof. Stanislaw Firlej (Łódź, Poland)