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Maria Swiadek (nee Niedbala)

Viola


Professional Orchestral Experience
  • Southern Sinfonia
  • London Firebird Orchestra – principal viola
  • Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra of London – principal viola
  • Southbank Sinfonia Alumni orchestra – Tony Hadley UK Tour
  • Southbank Sinfonia – Member 2013 season
  • Side-by-side performances with BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Opera House Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  • Verdandi Camerata
  • Pascall Promotions, side-by-side with New London Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Canterbury Choral Society
  • Sinfonia Cymru 

Professional Opera Experience
  • Fulham Opera
  • Co-Opera Co.
  • Verdi vs. Wagner bicentenary celebrations – Royal Opera House
  • Performances with British Youth Opera – Peacock Theatre
  • World premiere of Peter Maxwell Davies – ‘Kammilitonen!’ – Royal Academy of Music
  • Chamber staging of Puccini’s ‘Fanciulla del West’ – King’s Head Theatre
  • Side-by-side performances with Royal Opera House players (Chance to Dance – ROH 2013) 

Session work:
  • With BBC Concert Orchestra for BBC Radio 3
  • With The Amadè Players – CD Forgotten Vienna for Resonus Classics
  • National Film and Television School – soundtracks for student’s short films
  • Short movie ‘Stiletto’ dir. W. Mager, mus: M. d’Oliveira; ‘Tosh’, mus. N. McLean 
  • Krakow Youth Philharmonic Orchestra – ‘Samotni jak gwiazdy’, mus: E. Zawilinski

Education work
  • Side-by-side project with Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School and Thomas’s Schools
  • Music workshops in local school on Guernsey
  • Saturday Spectacular at Cadogan Hall – family concerts and workshops
  • Music in Community – course preparing for educational music workshops 

Orchestral Training
  • Royal Academy of Music Symphony, Concert Orchestra & String Orchestra 
  • CLIC Sargent Symphony Orchestra
  • Royal Academy Sinfonia, world premiere of Peter Maxwell Davies’ opera ‘Kommilitonen!’
  • Charities Philharmonia
  • Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra
  • Krakow Youth Philharmonic Orchestra
 
Festivals, Summer Master Courses and Masterclasses:
  • Northern Chords Festival, 2014
  • Dartington International Summer School, Financial Assistance Award - Leverhulme Trust 2012
  • London Händel Festival, RAM Baroque Orchestra with Laurence Cummings, St. George’s Hanover Square, 2012
  • Princess Daisy International Chamber Arts Festival, Ksiaz-Castle, Walbrzych, Poland 2009 – 2012
  • Young Virtuosi Festival, Castlereng, France 2009

Education:
  • Royal Academy of Music, London - MA in Performance 2011 – 2012
  • Royal Academy of Music, London - BMus in Performance  2007 – 2011

Professors: Martin Outram, Yuko Inoue, Jane Rogers (baroque) and Annette Isserlis (baroque)

Referees:
  • Martin Outram
  • Simon Over  

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Instruments
Viola, Baroque Viola