Elzbieta Bilicka
Country – Poland
Age – 29
Elzbieta Bilicka has performed solo and with orchestras in many cities in her native Poland, as well as in Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and the United States. Her recitals have been featured on Polish Radio Koszalin, Polish TV Culture and BBC Radio. In July 2021, Centaur Records released her debut CD Lights and Shadows, with music from Chopin, Ravel, Scriabin and Szymanowski.
Elzbieta is a prizewinner of several international piano competitions. The latest and most prestigious are first prize at the G-clef International Music Competition in South Korea (2021), first prize in the Walled City Music International Online Piano Competition (2020, Northern Ireland), first prize in the Putra International Online Piano Competition (2020, Malaysia), laureate at the 10th International Ignacy Jan Paderewski Piano Competition (2016, Poland) and third prize in the Polish Chopin Piano NIFC Competition (2016). In 2018, she was awarded the Young Poland Scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture.
Elzbieta holds a Master of Arts degree in Piano Performance from the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (class of Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron, Agata Nowakowska-Gumiela and Alberto Nose). She is currently earning a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at her Polish alma mater. Between 2016 and 2018, she studied under Nelson Goerner at the Haute École de Musique de Genève in Switzerland.
Elzbieta joined the Piano Faculty of the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University (Logan, UT) in May 2019.
Repertoire
Round I
Bach English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808
Liszt Tarantella from Anneés de pèlerinage II Supplément: Venezia e Napoli, S. 162
Round II
Beethoven Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2
Round III
Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
Chopin Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante in E-flat major, Op. 22
Ravel Oiseaux Tristes from Miroirs No. 2
Ravel Une barque sur l’océan from Miroirs No. 4
Ravel La valse
Round IV
Prokofiev Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26