North London Festival of Music, Speech & Drama

Eva Maria Doroszkowska

Eva Maria Doroszkowska is an international pianist, chamber musician and educator. She has performed globally appearing at Tivoli Copenhagen, Crush Room, Royal Opera House, Steinway Hall, London with many festival appearances in Europe. A recording artist, she has been interviewed and featured on South West Klassik Radio, Germany, Estonian Radio Tallinn, Portuguese Radio as well as on Radio 3. Television appearances include BBC and Polish TVP. Eva Maria has been invited to South East Asia and the Middle East to give workshops and masterclasses. She has a wealth of experience working with contemporary composers and is known for her performances of Polish and Eastern European composers in particular.

Her recent CD Baltic Tides garnered high praise in International Piano and Gramaphone Magazine and she has held an artistic residency at the Arvo Part centre. She holds an Honorary Associate from the Royal Academy of Music where she has taught in the junior department for over 20 years. Eva Maria has also mentored for Young Talents as part of Help Musicians UK and regularly publishes articles for IP magazine and Epta Piano.

Eva Maria won a scholarship to study at the Katowice Szymanowski Academy in Poland with Professor Andrzej Jasinski, also studying in Amsterdam, Holland and completing Soloist Masters in Copenhagen. She won a scholarship for her undergraduate studies at the Royal Northern. She is an adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals. A self confessed book junkie, she is a passionate advocate of Alexander Technique which she has studied for over 20 years and has a keen interest in ballet and the visual arts.

Eileen Field

Eileen Field studied singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music. She is a Graduate of the Royal Schools of Music and was appointed an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in February 1998. She has extensive experience as a soprano soloist, piano accompanist, choral conductor, and teacher of piano and singing from beginners to post-graduate level. She has given masterclasses for solo singers and choirs, including Highcliffe Junior Choir, winners of the youth section of the Sainsbury Choir of the Year Competition.

Eileen selected the material and wrote performance notes for two volumes of 20th century songs for Boosey & Hawkes. Her work as an adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals has taken her all over the British Isles and Ireland.

Eileen examined for ABRSM for forty years, working as a Consultant Moderator, a grade and diploma examiner and trainer of new examiners, as Lead Consultant for the selection of repertoire for the ABRSM Singing Syllabus and as Series Consultant for the new ABRSM Songbooks Plus. She examined and presented seminars for teachers in the UK, Southern Africa, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Bermuda, Canada, the USA, France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Turkey, Poland and Iceland. She examined for ABRSM at the Reykjavík Academy of Singing and Vocal Arts on ten occasions and, in parallel, examined candidates taking the Academy’s internal examinations, hearing a broad range of Icelandic vocal repertoire. As a result of her encouragement, the First Collection of Icelandic Art Songs, with English singing translations, was published by Ísalög, all of which are included in the ABRSM Singing Syllabus.

Eileen is very much looking forward to hearing your performances.