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Program

Massenet: Meditation

Faith: Reflection

Mozart: Sonata E minor

Dvorak: Romantic Piece #1

Bacewicz: Oberek

Wieniawski: Romanza from the Violin Concerto #2/

Violinist Izabela Spiewak  started her international musical career as a winner of the Wieniawski/Lipinski International Young Violinists' Competition at the age of 17, in Lublin, Poland.

Born in Eastern Poland, she is a graduate of the State Music School for gifted children which she joined at the age of 8 and was a part of for 12 years ona full scholarship. Subequently she completed the Performing Artists' Degree and graduated with honors from the acclaimed Warsaw Music Conservatory, Poland.
She studied with the leading Eastern European pedagogues, including Mr. Oskar Ruppel, a pupil of a legendary virtuoso Eugene Ysaye.
Still as a student, Ms. Spiewak recorded classical and popular music for the Polish Radio and TV and was a part of the Polish Radio and TV Orchestra.
Under the auspices of the Polish Performing Artists' Management, Ms. Spiewak relocated to Central America and toured   all over the world with the Mexico City Philharmonic.

Upon arrrival to the United States, Ms. Spiewak was offered a full scholarship to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute under the direction of Leonard Bernstein and Michael Tilson Thomas.

She  studied chamber music  and performed under the guidance of such distinguished masters as Menahem Pressler, Martha Argerich, Lynn Harel,  and Pinchas Zuckerman.  She recorded albums with celebrities  such as Leonard Bernstein, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, YoYo Ma and Yehudi Menuhin, and pop stars, such as Michael Jackson, Lisa Minelli, Michael Crawford, Gloria Estefan, Julio Iglesias, Sarah Brighton.  In addition,  she was priviledged to play for Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton, and the Pope  John Paul The 2nd. She is an active recitalist, a  recipient of the North Carolina  Regional Artist Grant and a Touring Artist for the State of North Carolina, a  leader of the Arcangelo Piano Quartet (since 1997) and a violinist of the DUO APPASSIONATO. She toured the US, Europe, South America and China.

In addition to her busy performing career, she keeps a prominent teaching studio where she shares her expertise with talented young violinists.