Wanda Wiłkomirska

Wanda Wiłkomirska ( born January 11, 1929 in Warsaw) is a Polish violinist.

Wiłkomirska received his first violin lessons from her father. Later she studied with Irena Dubiska in Łódź, at Ede Zathureczky in Budapest and Henryk Szeryng in Paris and won several international awards. In the 1950s and 1960s it was a year more than a hundred concerts and played many recordings one.

She performed in over fifty countries worldwide with major symphony orchestras under conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Otto Klemperer, Sir John Barbirolli, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Giulini, Kurt Masur, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Witold Rowicki, Erich Leinsdorf, Pierre Boulez, Eugen Jochum and Franz Konwitschny on.

Wiłkomirska played a world premieres of contemporary composers such as Tadeusz Baird and Krzysztof Penderecki and received the Polish State Prize for the promotion of contemporary Polish music. In addition to her solo career, she dedicated herself to chamber music. With Maria and Kazimierz Wiłkomirska Wilkomirski they formed the Wilkomirski Trio, from 1992 Genuit Werner and Christoph Richter Wiłkomirska the trio. In addition, it was also chamber music partner of musicians such as Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, Daniel Barenboim, Radu Lupu and Mischa Maisky.

1983 Wiłkomirska professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim. Since 1999 she teaches at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and since 2001 also at the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne.

Wiłkomirska was the first wife of the politician Mieczysław Rakowski.

Sound recordings

• Wanda Wilkomirska playing Polish music of Paderewski, Bacewicz, Zarzycki and Bargielski, with Paul Dam, Piano, ambitus, amb97830
• Prokofieff, Two Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Connoisseur Society CD 4079
• Works by Wieniawski, Lipinski and Bacewics with Jadwiga Szamotulska, Gambit 1003-1
• Britten Violin Concerto Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under Witold Rowicki, Soloist: Wanda Wilkomirska, 1967, Orchestral Concert CDs, CD12/2011