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Hometown:
Krakow, Poland
Education: Julliard
Joined the Orchestra: Boston Symphony – 1970-1987,
Cleveland Orchestra– 1987-1990, ASO – 1990-present
Favorite saying: “What goes around comes around”
Greatest accomplishment: living
Favorite movie: Age of Innocence
Who would play you in a movie: Greta Garbo
Most
memorable moment in Orchestra: Tchaikovsky’s
“Pathetique” with Robert Spano at the Inaugural
Concert
Inspiration: Art, music, and the Dali Lama
Favorite foods: healthy
Bad habit: negativity
Three
things always found in your refrigerator:
butter, eggs, half/half (I can give up everything else but
not coffee)
Most influential teacher: Joseph Silverstein and Yascha
Heifetz
Luxury defined: To have enough time in a day to do
and accomplish all that you desire
Books at bedside: Tibetan Buddhism and Book of Runes
Favorite piece of music: No such thing – it’s
like asking which of your children is your favorite
Place you'd most like to be stranded: Venice
Concertmaster
of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since 1990, Cecylia Arzewski
previously was a member of the Boston Symphony for 17 years,
rising to the position of Assistant Concertmaster, and then
joined the Cleveland Orchestra as Associate Concertmaster
for three years before coming to Atlanta.
Born in Krakow, Poland, Ms. Arzewski began her violin studies
at the age of five. After moving with her family to Israel
in 1957, she studied at the Tel Aviv Conservatory with Odeon
Partos. Subsequent teachers have included Ivan Galamian at
Juilliard and Meadowmount and Joseph Silverstein, a major
influence, at the New England Conservatory of Music.
Ms. Arzewski was an award winner at the International Bach
Festival in 1978. She has appeared as soloist with the Cleveland
Orchestra and the Boston Pops, played regularly in chamber
music concerts throughout New England, and made her New York
solo debut in Carnegie Hall. She has also appeared in concerts
with the Georgian Chamber Players and in recitals throughout
Europe.
With the ASO, Ms. Arzewski has performed concertos by Bach,
Vivaldi, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Wienawski,
Brahms, Conus, Berg, and Bartók. In March '01 she gave
a solo recital at the University of Georgia featuring sonatas
by Mozart, Brahms, and Prokofiev, and she was a featured soloist
in the ASO's Inaugural Concert at the beginning of last season.
Her performance of the incidental violin solos in the orchestra's
new recording of Sheherazade, which was released summer of
2001, has received glowing reviews.
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