Overture Magazine: 2017-2018 Season March - April 2018 | Page 34

MAHLER’S TITAN
debut CD, Cello Populus, is a collection of
contemporary solo pieces with works by
Hindemith, Ligeti, Crumb, Penderecki,
Saariaho and Lutosławski. Praised as “a
truly exceptional album that leaves listeners
eagerly waiting for another installment,”
the recording earned attention that led
to Skoraczewski’s winning Baltimore’s
prestigious Baker Artist Award in 2013.
His second recording with pianist
Michael Sheppard, Cello Phantasia,
features music by Schumann, Franck and
Rachmaninoff. Together with violinist
Igor Yuzefovich, they’ve recorded pieces
by Brahms, Shostakovich and Schoenfield
as the Monument Piano Trio.
As a recitalist and chamber musician,
Skoraczewski has appeared on series
including Chamber Music by Candlelight,
Music in the Valley and Music in the Great
Hall. He has also appeared at Weill Hall,
Barge Music Festival and Merkin Hall in
New York City. He is currently artist-in-
residence at An Die Musik.
Skoraczewski began his musical
education at the age of six in Warsaw,
Poland, studying with Zbigniew Liebig
and Andrzej Zieliński. As a scholarship
recipient at the Peabody Conservatory,
he studied with world-renowned cellist
Stephen Kates.
Skoraczewski plays a 1702 C