From Press Reviews...
Kazimierz Rozbicki, Muzyka 21, November 2011
„(…)After the intermission, there was another monumental piece, more majestic Romantic music and more excellent piano: the piano concerto by Grieg, with the solo part played by Joanna Marcin-kowska.
Read moreJózef Kański, Ruch Muzyczny, Oct. 30, 2011
„(…)Evidence that the Polish art of the piano is not yet quite on the wane was provided during the same programme by Joanna Marcinkowska, one of the most talented pianists of the younger generation ...
Read moreWiadomości, Jelenia Góra, September 2, 2010
„(…)A recital by Joanna Marcinkowska started the concert. The musician has won many prestigious prizes for her piano performances.
Read moreJean-Luc Perrot , La Tribune—Le Progrès, May 4, 2010
„(…)The concert began with a performance by Joanna Marcinkowska, who was playing (as she confessed to us, for the first time in her life) a Pleyel pianoforte from Chopin’s times.
Read moreAndrzej Chylewski, Głos Wielkopolski, May 20, 2009
The Poznań Sorceress of the Piano
Who else in our city in the year 2009 can afford such an extensive instrumental recital with such a diversified repertoire and such a technique of playing? One could well ask this question after the performance of the Poznań pianist Joanna Marcinkowska at the Aula Nova on Sunday.
Kazimierz Rozbicki, Muzyka 21, December 2008
From the Concert Stage of the Koszalin Philharmonic
The Philharmonic inaugurated its 53rd season with a concert in honor of the 50th anniversary of the artistic work of Kazimierz Rozbicki (on Sept. 26), which necessarily limits the extent of this review to a mere account of the facts.
Bogusław Rottermund, Ruch Muzyczny, August 2008
Tchaikovsky: Concert Suites
Mikhail Pletnev, pianist, conductor, author and performer of numerous transcriptions of pieces by Russian composers, may boast a personal approach to his repertoire, a great intuition and creative potential in his quest of new manners of performance, and is easily recognizable by his peculiar treatment of the issues of articulation and rhythm. It may be claimed that this excellent musician in certain respects does not comply with what is generally considered the distinguishing characteristics of the Russian school of piano playing, yet he always manages to capture the audience’s attention. If the author of the transcriptions is himself their unsurpassed performer, then can the audience expect anything more? Joanna Marcinkowska proves that it indeed can.
Kazimierz Rozbicki, Muzyka 21, October 2007.
„(…) The performer of the afternoon concert at the Castle was Joanna Marcinkowska, who in an outstanding manner played piano transcriptions...
Read moreFakty Kaliskie, March 20, 2007
A Musical Feast with Brahms
She is among the best known Polish promoters of Brahms’s music as well as among the most striking performers of piano pieces by the composer. Small wonder then that it was Joanna Marcin¬kowska whom the Kalisz Philharmonic invited to take part in a program to honor the 110th anniversary of Brahms’s death.
Andrzej Chylewski, Głos Wielkopolski, Feb. 5, 2007
„(...) The youthful Poznań pianist Joanna Marcinkowska provided further evidence of the continuous development of her unique talent in her performance of the 1st Piano Concerto by Brahms.
Read moreKazimierz Rozbicki, Miasto, Oct. 30, 2006
„(...) The overture was followed by the serious, dramatic Piano Concerto in D Minor by Brahms, performed by the excellent pianist Joanna Marcinkowska.
Read moreJózef Kański, Ruch Muzyczny, October 2004
„(...) Most spectacular was the performance of the Poznań pianist Joanna Marcinkowska, who eight years ago had won the Competition Artur Rubinstein In Memoriam in Bydgoszcz...
Read moreAndrzej Chylewski, Głos Wielkopolski, Feb. 16, 2004
„(...) Due to her admirable talent and vigor, Joanna Marcinkowska exercised complete control over the scope, size and emotions of the virtuoso 1st Piano Concerto in E flat Major by Ferenc Liszt. .
Read moreTadeusz Szantruczek, Gazeta Poznańska, Feb. 14–15, 2004
„(...) Beside the appearance of Tadeusz Strugała, another attraction of this evening was the recital of Joanna Marcinkowska, a highly talented pianist, the winner of twenty-one national Polish and foreign competitions.
Read moreVolker Fries, Kölnische Rundschau, Oct. 4, 2001
„(...)The third prize and the award of the public were granted to twenty-one-year-old Pole Joanna Marcinkowska, who in the final stage charmed both the jury and the audience with her performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto in D Minor.
Read moreMarianne Kierspel, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Oct. 4, 2001
„(...) The award of the public was granted to twenty-one-year-old Pole Joanna Marcinkowska, not only for her elegant performances.
Read moreRoman Kraszewski, Głos Szczeciński, Jan. 26, 1999
„(...) Joanna Marcinkowska’s recital culminated in a performance of “Scarbo” from Ravel’s cycle Gaspard de la nuit.
Read moreBogusław Rottermund, Ruch Muzyczny, Feb. 20, 1999
„(...) In the second part of the recital, we heard Schumann’s 1st Sonata, whose performance testified to the artist’s familiarity with the difficult form of multi-movement Romantic pieces.
Read moreBogusław Rottermund, Kurier Szczeciński, Jan. 27, 1997.
„(...)While there are many perfectly trained pianists today, there are fewer and fewer original personalities. Listening to the seventeen-year-old Joanna Marcinkowska play E. Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, one actually feels like shouting “Eureka!”
Read moreKazimierz Rozbicki, Głos Koszaliński, Sept. 17, 1996
„(...) Joanna Marcinkowska’s recital was sensational, and in my view unique in the entire history of the Słupsk festival. Her outstanding talent for music, imagination, unfailing intuition and a marvelous mastery of the piano-playing skills, as well as her tasteful and refined performances combine to make up an agreeable and fully mature artistic personality.
Read moreJan Popis, Ruch Muzyczny, September 1996
„(...) Joanna Marcinkowska is highly talented, and—which is even more heartening—her gifts ripen at a lightning speed.
Read moreMatti Raekallio, Finland, Ruch Muzyczny, March 1996
„(...) The Polish pianists were delightful. Particularly conspicuous was Joanna Marcinkowska, with her breathtaking musical and intellectual abilities, which deny her young age.
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