Bio | Julia Maria Sliwa

Biography

Born in Vienna, pianist Julia Maria Sliwa has won prizes at national and international competitions. She won first prize at the Valsesia Musica International Competition, second prize at the International Chopin Competition in Slovenia and was a finalist at the International Chopin Competition in Budapest.

She regularly performs as a soloist and chamber musician on modern and historical instruments in Austria and Europe and is a co-founder of the Fortepiano Society Vienna.

She played for the International Chopin Society Vienna and gave concerts at numerous festivals, such as the Rodachtal Music Festival, the Musikalischer Sommer in East Frisia, the National Chopin Seminar in Suwalki, the Krumpendorfer Kultursommer and the Fortepiano Festival Vienna.

Together with violinist Anne Harvey-Nagl, concertmaster of the Vienna Volksoper, she recorded her first album for Paladino Music in 2022.

Julia Maria Sliwa began piano lessons with her mother and Teresa Leopold. She studied in Vienna, Katowice and Zurich. She completed her piano concert studies with Robert Marat at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice and then studied postgraduately with Andrzej Jasiński.

The pianist returned to the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna to study chamber music with Teresa Leopold and Stefan Mendl. Since then, Vienna has remained her working and living space.

Here Sliwa received conducting lessons from Claudius Traunfellner and discovered his enthusiasm for the fortepiano after meeting Stefan Gottfried and Jesper Christensen.

Wichtige künstlerische Impulse erhielt die Pianistin regelmäßig von Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, Wojciech Świtała, Boris Berman und Maria Szweiger-Kułakowska.

Collaborations

Fortepiano Society Vienna (co-founder)

Die Fortepiano Gesellschaft wurde 2018 gegründet um neue Akzente in der Wiener Musikszene mit Originalinstrumenten aus der Zeit großer Komponisten zu setzen. So wird der Geist der vermeintlich «alten» Musik wieder zum Leben erweckt. Eine Gesellschaft bestehend aus Musikern aus vielen Ländern der Welt, die in Wien leben und wirken.

Anne Harvey-Nagl

Ihre Leidenschaft für das reichliche Repertoire für Violine und Klavier, bewog Anne Harvey-Nagl, Konzertmeisterin der Volksoper Wien und Pianistin Julia Maria Sliwa zur Zusammenarbeit. Sie konzertieren regelmäßig in Wien. Ihre gemeinsame CD wurde 2023 bei Paladino Music herausgebracht.

Miclen LaiPang

Einer der erfolgreichsten jungen Geigern weltweit. Die New York Times nannte ihn eine «Größe, mit der man rechnen muss». Das Duo spielte unter anderem beim Kultursommer Krumpendorf 2023.

Agata Lazarczyk

She is active as a soloist and chamber musician in Switzerland and Europe. She has been principal second violin with the Argovia Philharmonic since 2019 and joined the first violin section of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra in 2022. The duo has performed several times in Zurich.

Cristina Basili

The classical duo has played in various concert halls and festivals in Europe. Their extensive repertoire includes pieces from the baroque and classical periods and extends into the 21st century.

Markus Stolberg

An interesting collaboration was established with the Austrian actor. Musical readings in the Bösendorfer Saal, among other venues.