Tamara Anna Cislowska is the most acclaimed and awarded Australian pianist of her gene-ration. She has performed as soloist with the London Phil and Romanian Phil O., the NHK and New Zealand Symphony O. and the six major Australian orchestras.  As a guest performer and chamber musician she has appeared at the Barossa and Huntington Festivals, the Mostly Mozart Series and Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music, and  festivals in Germany, Italy and the U.K.  As a recitalist she has performed at the Purcell Room in London and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.  In the USA she has appeared at the Frick Collection, in Chicago and Los Angeles.  In addition, she has toured Japan, performed in Poland, Italy and  Greece.     

Tamara began her career early, gave her first public performance at two, playing Bartok, and recorded several pieces for ABC Radio at three. She began studies at the Sydney Conservatory at 6, and 2 years later gave her first performance with an orchestra.  At 14, she was the youngest pianist ever to win Australia's most prestigious classical music award, the ABC 'Young Perfomers' Award'.  Soon after, she was named Sydney's Finest Performer, resulting in a tour of Japan and the United States as a cultural ambassador.  She has been a major prizewinner at international competitions, including the Maria Calls, National World Power and Rovere d'Oro.  In 2003 she was awarded the Music Council of Australia/Freedman Foundation Fellowship in Classical Music.  In addition, she has been nominated for 3 ARIAs (Australian Recording Industry Award) for Best Classical Release.  Her wide repertoire includes 40 piano concertos and she has given 15 world premieres of new works.  In 2003, her performance of Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto was named as one of the year's ten best performances in Australia.

She has performed regularly with the Mozart Piano Quartet and has recorded the Brahms and Mozart quartets for Arte Nova, the Dvorak piano quartets for MDG and the complete chamber music of Gustav Jenner for German Radio.

Tamara has also recorded 5 solo albums for Artworks - including Liszt, Scriabin, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Hovhannes, Berio and Grainger.  In addition, she has joined the Sydney Symphony, New Zealand Symphony and the London Philharmonic on recordings for ABC Classics, Chandos and Naxos.