Teaching
Key points:
Master of Music (Performance);
Full member of Music Teacher’s Association of NSW;
Academic Lecturer at Australian Institute of Music since 2014;
Her students successfully audition for tertiary courses at Australian Institute of Music,
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and University of NSW,
and are marked highly on AMEB exams and certificates and Australian eisteddfods (competitions);
Masterclasses
Dr Kirill Monorosi is a pianist, musicologist, teacher and lecturer. He completed his B.Mus in piano performance with first class honours, after which followed a professional training course at the Moscow Conservatorium and studies at the Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik in Weimar, Germany, where he received Diplom und Aufbau A degrees in piano performance. He then went on to complete his PhD in musicology in 2014 at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Kirill has given recitals with solo, chamber music and song works in Europe, Australia and Russia, with repertoire ranging from the English virginalists to works produced in collaboration with contemporary Australian composers. In 2009, he was invited to perform a solo recital on Liszt’s piano in the Liszt Museum, Weimar. In 2012, in a series of lecture-recitals he performed the world premiere of César Cui’s Variations-Preludes Op. 104. In 2016 he recorded the first book of J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier in Germany.
Kirill has been awarded numerous Awards, including the Australian Postgraduate Award (APA), two Robert Hatherley Scholarships and a J. S. Bach Foundation Research Grant (Germany). In 2014, he was awarded the prestigious Churchill Fellowship to continue his research into previously unpublished piano works in various archives in Europe. He was also a Semi-finalist in the 2007 Vienna International Piano Competition; and a Finalist and Diploma Prize-Winner of the 2009 J. S. Bach International Piano Competition in Würzburg.
As a musicologist, Kirill has discovered numerous previously unpublished and uncatalogued works by a member of the ‘Mighty Handful’ César Cui, and Alexander Glazunov and has since edited these works for publication. He currently has 15 publications, including the first published piano reductions of three Mozart Piano Concertos K. 107 (with cadenzas composed for concertos 2 and 3), as well as first publications of César Cui’s Variations-Preludes Op.104, 15 Miniatures Op. 105 and Petite Sonatine Op. 106.
Kirill maintains a busy teaching schedule, which includes regular invitations to lecture and give masterclasses in Europe, Russia, and Latin America. He has adjudicated for various eisteddfods and competitions, including the Sydney Eisteddfod, and most recently the 2016 J. S. Bach International Piano Competition in Würzburg, Germany. In 2017 he was appointed co-artistic director of this competition.
Dr Wojciech Wisniewski is a pianist, pedagogue and author currently residing in Sydney, Australia. Born in Poland, Wojciech graduated from Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw (Poland) shortly before arriving in Australia in 2004. After completing his Bachelor of Music in 2007 (Ist Class Honors) at Australian Institute of Music, he received Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney in 2015, as a recipient of ‘Bessie Cook Piano Award’. In 2011 he received a diploma from Ministry of Culture of the Polish Government for ‘exemplary achievements in the field of popularising music of Frederic Chopin.”
His teachers include Dr Krystyna Wojcik, Edward Wolanin, Bronislawa Kawalla, Katarzyna Jankowska, Phillip Shovk and Natalia Sheludiakova. He participated in numerous masterclasses with such renowned artists as Andrzej Jasinski and Paul Lewis. After his arrival to Australia he performed as a soloist, chamber musician and with orchestra around the country and in New Zealand. In 2008 he was selected and performed at the Sydney International Piano Competition.
Wojciech is a devoted teacher and his other interests include psychology, history of piano performance styles, computers and web-design amongst many others.
In 2016, his book “Defining National Piano Schools – Perceptions and challenges” was published by ‘WWBooks Sydney’ and is currently available worldwide.