Gisele Nacif Witkowski
Piano

Pianist Gisele Nacif Witkowski’s first performance at Carnegie Hall received critical acclaim from the New York Concert Review, which called it “one of the most genuinely fascinating recital debuts in many a moon.” Ms. Witkowski has performed extensively throughout Brazil, the United States, and Europe. A native of Brazil, she received her Master’s degree in Piano Performance from the Manhattan School of Music and is in the final stages of her doctoral studies at the Hartt School of Music under the tutelage of Luiz de Moura Castro. Ms. Witkowski has won a number of first prizes in piano competitions such as the Villa-Lobos National Contest and the Artists International Young Artists Piano Award. She has appeared as a soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Rio Claro, the City of Sao Paolo String Quartet, the Estate of Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, among others. Ms. Witkowski has also performed extensively in Italy at the Amalfi Coast Music Festival and at the Ravello concert series, “Music of Two Americas”. In the fall of 2002, she and her husband, Fabio Witkowski played a four-hands program at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage as part of “Ravello in America”, an annual celebration of the international Ravello Music Festival.

Ms. Witkowski is head of the Piano Department at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut where she has taught since 1999. She is also co-director of the Piano Division of the Hotchkiss Summer Arts Program in Italy held in cooperation with the Amalfi Coast Music Festival & Institute.

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