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The Poilish harpsichordist, conductor and music treacher, Lilianna Ewa Stawarz, graduated in 1988 from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw (the harpsichord class of Władysław Kłosiewicz). Two years later she gained a diploma from the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Rueil-Malmaison, where she studied with Huguette Dreyfus (1988-1990).
For twenty years Lilianna Stawarz was a member of the Il Tempo Early Music Ensemble which focused on instrumental and vocal-instrumental music from early Baroque to the Classical period. She made numerous recordings for radio, recorded five CD's and participated in prestigious early music festivals with Il Tempo, in Poland and abroad (Bruges, Brussels, Utrecht, Moscow, New York, New Brunswick, Rome, Berlin).
From 1991 to 2017, Lilianna Stawarz was associated with the Warsaw Chamber Opera, both as a harpsichordist and a conductor, serving from 2015 to 2017 as the company’s Artistic Director for Baroque opera. She was a co-founder and Artistic Director of the Dramma Per Musica Festival during which she directed from the harpsichord George Frideric Handel’s Agrippina (nominated for the 2015 Coryphaeus Award), Orlando, Rinaldo and Alcina, as well as Antonio Vivaldi’s Farnace (nominated for the Cyprian Kamil Norwid Prize). She also directed from the harpsichord and positive organ a wide range of instrumental and vocal-instrumental compositions (J.S. Bach’s St Mark Passion (BWV 247), Marcin Mielczewski’s Opera Omnia released as a 6-CD album by Pro Musica Camerata Foundation, works by Damian Stachowicz), as well as operas - Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Scarlatti’s Tetide in Sciro (live CD recording for Pro Musica Camerata Foundation).
Lilianna Stawarz' solo recording debut featured works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (2002, CD Accord). Her discography also includes a 2-CD album with G.F. Handel’s harpsichord suites HWV 426-433 (2007, Pro Musica Camerata Foundation), J.S. Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias (BWV 772-786 & BWV 787-801) (2012, Polish Radio) and J.S. Bach's 6 Sonatas for violin and harpsichord obbligato, BWV 1014-1019 (recorded with Paweł Łosakiewicz for Chopin University Press). In 2020, the DUX record label released their another joint album - Domenico Scarlatti. Sonatas Transcribed for Violin and Harpsichord. In 2018 she received the Fryderyk Award of the Polish recording industry in the category ‘CD of the Year - Early Music’ for a live recording of Antonio Caldara's oratorio Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo, released by Polish Radio. Forthcoming releases include Wilhelm Friedemann Bach's 12 Polonaises and Fantasias, J.S. Bach’s French Suites (BWV 812-817), W.A. Mozart's Harpsichord Concertos, KV 107, Haydn’s Harpsichord Concerto, Hob. XVII:11 (with the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra for Polish Radio). She has also recorded Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz’s Harpsichord Concerto with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
From 2012 to 2016 Lilianna Stawarz served as Deputy Dean of the Department of Instrumental Studies and Musical Education and as a coordinator of the Concert Bureau at the Białystok branch of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She is currently a Professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and Head of its Interdepartmental Faculty of Early Music. |
