DISTINGUISHED ARTIST AWARD

Hambidge announces Cecylia Arzewski as the recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Artist Award. Each yearly award winner will receive a 3 week Hambidge residency and join the distinguished list of over one thousand Fellows who have experienced the setting + solitude + time that support creativity.

CECYLIA ARZEWSKI

 

Concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since 1990, Cecylia Arzewski previously was a member of the Boston Symphony for 17 years. Joining the Boston Symphony in 1970, she became the youngest tenured violinist in the history of the Orchestra, and rose to the position of Assistant Concertmaster. In 1987, she joined the Cleveland Orchestra as Associate Concertmaster for three years before coming to Atlanta. Over the course of her distinguished orchestral career, prior to arriving in Atlanta, Ms. Arzewski has performed under the great batons of: William Steinberg; Eric Leinsdorf; Eugene Ormandy; Leonard Bernstein; Kurt Masur; Bernard Haitink; Claudio Abbado; Sir Colin Davis; Sir Simon Rattle; Christoph von Dohnanyi; Yoel Levi; Lorin Mazel; and James Levine

 

Born in Krakow, Poland, Ms. Arzewski began her violin studies at the age of five. After moving with her family to Israel in 1957, she studied at the Tel Aviv Conservatory with Odeon Partos. Subsequent teachers have included Ivan Galamian at Juilliard and Meadowmount and Joseph Silverstein, a major influence, at the New England Conservatory of Music. Ms. Arzewski has also been coached by Josef Gingold and Jascha Heifetz.

Ms. Arzewski was an award winner at the International Bach Competition 1978. That year she performed an unaccompanied Bach solo recital at Carnegie Hall. Ms. Arzewski has also appeared as a soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Boston Pops. She toured Europe on two occasions playing the Mozart D major and Stravinsky Violin Concertos. Ms. Arzewski has also performed chamber music with many great artists such as Emanuel Ax and Andre Watts.

With the ASO, Ms. Arzewski has performed twenty different concertos in the last 18 years. Her performance of the violin solos in the ASO's recording of Sheherazade has received glowing reviews. Ms. Arzewski’s recent Naxos recording of Earl Kim’s Violin Concerto garnered critical acclaim both here and abroad.

Currently, Ms. Arzewski is devoting all her time to teaching, recording projects and performances.

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