Anne Koscielny Collection
Collection
0494-IPAM
The Anne Koscielny Collection consists of recordings from throughout the career of pianist and teacher Anne Koscielny. Koscielny was a successful concert pianist; she was a semifinalist in the Chopin Competition in 1960, and performed throughout Europe and the United States. She had a particular affinity for Beethoven, performing the complete cycle of his Sonatas several times. Koscielny taught at the Hartt School of Music, the University of Maryland College Park, the Eastman School and the Peabody Institute. Koscielny’s papers documenting her performing and teaching career are expected to be added to the collection at a later date. For additional information, expand the menus below.
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English
Anne Koscielny was born in Tallahassee, FL on May 12, 1936. The daughter of a German violinist who emigrated to the United States in 1929, she began her studies at age six, working with W. James Crosland and then Hans Barth in Jacksonville, Florida, the latter being a student of Josef Lhévinne. At 17, she performed with the Jacksonville Symphony. Koscielny trained at the Eastman School of Music with Cecile Genhart for four years, also working in the summers with Frank Mannheimer. While still a student, Koscielny won the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition in 1957. After graduating in 1958, she won a Fulbright grant to study in Vienna with Władysław Kędra. Kędra prepared her for the 1960 Chopin competition, in which Koscielny was a semifinalist. While living in Europe, Koscielny performed in Poland, Austria, and Italy.
After a series of complicated family events, Koscielny decided to return to school for a graduate degree in order to later find a permanent teaching position. She was awarded a full-tuition scholarship to work with Robert Goldsand at the Manhattan School of Music and completed a master’s degree in one year. Her teaching responsibilities combined with marriage and family meant that her concert career remained primarily localized. She played throughout the state of Connecticut, and after a successful initial performance at the Matthay Festival at the University of Maryland in 1967, was repeatedly invited back to the Washington D.C. area. Koscielny occasionally performed abroad, in particular giving a successful recital at Wigmore Hall in London in 1972.
Koscielny held faculty positions at the Hartt School of Music, the University of Maryland College Park, the Eastman School and the Peabody Institute. She maintained a repertoire that embraced the range of the piano literature, which she played with a high degree of technical command. Koscielny had a particular affinity for the Beethoven Piano Sonatas, presenting the entire cycle of Sonatas at various times in her career. Koscielny died in 2015.
The collection is arranged into three series:
Performances by Anne Koscielny
Performances by Anne Koscielny and Raymond Hanson
Performances by Raymond Hanson
See the detailed finding aid under inventories/additional information for an item-level overview of the collection.
Part of the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library