Elzbieta Bilicka
Biography Elzbieta Bilicka
Elzbieta Bilicka
Elzbieta's playing has been praised for “organic combination of thought and emotion” (Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron) plus “artistry and energy with the highest professionalism” (Cathal Breslin). She has been described as “an unusual and interesting artist” (Adam Rozlach) and “an intensely musical being – a highly refined musical temperament” (Michael Moran).
A graduate of the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (class of Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron, Agata Nowakowska-Gumiela and Alberto Nose), she is currently a DMA candidate at her Polish alma mater. Between 2016 and 2018, she studied under Nelson Goerner at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve in Switzerland.
Elzbieta is a prizewinner of various international piano competitions. The latest and most important of them are: Walled City Music International Online Piano Competition in Derry, Northern Ireland, 2020 (1st prize), Putra International Online Piano Competition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2020 (1st prize), the 10th International Ignacy Jan Paderewski Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 2016 (laureate title) and Polish Chopin Piano NIFC Competition in Katowice, Poland, 2016 (3rd prize). In 2018, she was awarded the ‘Young Poland’ Scholarship of the Polish Minister of Culture.
Elzbieta has performed solo and with orchestras in many cities of her native Poland, as well as in Italy, Austria, Switzerland and USA. Her recitals have been featured on Polish Radio Koszalin, Polish TV Culture and BBC Radio. In July 2021, Centaur Records will be releasing her debut solo album: Lights and shadows, which presents impressionistic influences in music by Chopin, Ravel, Scriabin and Szymanowski.
Elzbieta joined the Piano Faculty of the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University in Logan (UT) in May 2019.
