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concertmaster
Solo Performance Dates
April 19/20/21 at 8:00PM
MOZART: Violin Concerto No.5
Concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since 1990, Cecylia Arzewski previously was a member of the Boston Symphony for 17 years, rising to the position of Assistant Concertmaster, and then joined the Cleveland Orchestra as Associate Concertmaster for three years before coming to Atlanta.
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 was an award winner at the International Bach Festival in 1978. She has appeared as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Boston Pops, played regularly in chamber music concerts throughout New England, and made her New York solo debut in Carnegie Hall. She has also appeared in concerts with the Georgian Chamber Players and in recitals throughout Europe.
With the ASO, Ms. Arzewski has performed concertos by Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Wienawski, Brahms, Conus, Berg, Prokofiev, Hartmann, and Bartók. Her performance of the incidental violin solos in the orchestra's recording of Sheherazade has received glowing reviews. This season she performs the Beethoven Violin Concerto, April 7-9, 2005.
Questions With The ASO Concertmaster
Hometown
Krakow, Poland
Education
Juilliard
Orchestras
Boston Symphony, 1970-1987;
Cleveland Orchestra, 1987-1990;
ASO, 1990-present
Favorite saying
"What goes around comes around"
Greatest accomplishment
living
Favorite movie
Age of Innocence
Who would play you in a movie?
Greta Garbo
Most memorable moment in Orchestra
Tchaikovsky's "Pathétique" with Robert Spano at his Inaugural Concert in 2001
Inspiration
Art, music, and the Dalai Lama
Favorite foods
healthy
Bad habit
negativity
Three things always found in your refrigerator
butter, eggs, half & half ("I can give up everything else, but not coffee")
Most influential teachers
Joseph Silverstein and Yascha Heifetz
Luxury defined
To have enough time in a day to do and accomplish all that you desire
Books at bedside
Tibetan Buddhism and Book of Runes
Favorite piece of music
No such thing – it's like asking which of your children is your favorite
Place you'd most like to be stranded
Venice |
Cecylia Arzewski
