Although young (b. 1983), Elizabeth Borowsky has achieved international recognition as an outstanding artist of her generation. Her impressive interpretations and her great talent have been praised around the world. Since her Baltimore debut at age seven, she has been invited to perform concerts and recitals in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Some of her concerts (Bulgaria- 1992, Indonesia- 1996, Israel- 1999 & 2000, Japan- 1998, Jordan- 1999 & 2000, Korea- 1998, Poland- 1993, 1998, 1999, 2000, and Vietnam- 2005) were nationally or internationally televised. Elizabeth's live performance of the Haydn D-Major Concerto with the Polish Camerata at the Paderewski Ad Memoriam Festival (Poland) has been broadcast world-wide by Pol-Sat TV several times since June 1999. Her televised performance at the World Child Prodigies Concert, under the auspices of UNESCO and sponsored by the Ford and Texaco Foundations, was distributed world-wide.
Elizabeth has received national and international awards and prizes including the International Young Artists Award (1997), the International Music Talent Award (1998), and the Heidelberg Grand Prix (1998), Best '99 CD Prize (for her highly praised debut CD, “Pearls of Music," recorded together with her brother Emmanuel), the Pro Sinfonika Award for Promoting Classical Music Among Youth (Poland), the distinguished Chopin Foundation of the United States Scholarship (four times; 2000-2003), the title of “Maryland’s Junior Miss 2001,” the Merit Award from the U. S. National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, the distinguished Cultural Achievement Award from the Middle East Consortium of the International Friends of Music (2003). Most recently, she, together with her brother Emmanuel and sister Frances Grace (known together as “The Young American Virtuosi), received the Erick Friedman Prize for Outstanding Young Musicians (2004) and performed their New York Debut at Carnegie Hall on October 31st, 2004. Elizabeth has exclusively recorded several CDs for the ICRecords Company. These recordings (Pearls of Music, Music for Peace in the Middle East, and The American Virtuosi: Musical Favorites of All Times) are distributed world-wide by www.amazon.com.
Elizabeth has also earned a reputation as an outstanding composer. Her work, “Israeli Dance: Let Us Go to Jerusalem, the City of Peace” (dedicated to the youth of the Middle East) was premiered by the King David String Ensemble of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra at the Embassy of Israel in Washington D.C. on February 6, 2003. She was honored with the Jerusalem Medal.
Elizabeth began her piano studies at age four. She has continued her studies under the guidance of her lead-teachers Reynaldo Reyes and her mother, Cecylia Barczyk (both of the University of Maryland-Towson). She has also been mentored by Maestro Krystian Zimerman, Ward Davenny (Yale), Leon Fleisher (Peabody), Andrzej Jasinski, Maria Kolakowska-Schweiger (both of Katowice Music Academy), Veronika Jochum (New England Conservatory), Ann Schein (Peabody), Piotr Paleczny (Warsaw), and Arnaldo Cohen (Royal Academy of Music/Indiana University). Elizabeth was invited to tour Asia (Korea, Japan, Vietnam) in March-April 2005, giving masterclasses and performing concerts. Her concert at the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music (Vietnam) was nationally televised. In the Fall of 2005, Elizabeth participated in the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland; receiving a special prize from ICRecords that resulted in her solo CD, “Chopin Recital.”
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