Polish-Canadian pianist Daniel Wnukowski is one of the leading pianists of his generation and regularly performs throughout Europe, North America, South America and Asia. He has performed with the Polish Radio Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Windsor Symphony and Southfield Symphony, with conductors Jerzy Maksymiuk, Alain Trudel and David Amos, as well as at international festivals including Chopin and His Europe in Warsaw, Poland; Festival Dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy; Chopiniana in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and the Pre-LSO Concert Series in London, UK.

In early 2010, he inaugurated the Chopin year in Pozna, Poland alongside Metropolitan Opera soprano Aleksandra Kurzak, and was chosen as a Samling Scholar. In May 2010 he performed in Tokyo, Japan to commemorate the unveiling of a new Chopin monument in that city. This led to a debut in Singapore, in the hall of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra and at the Singapore Botanic Gardens. He received an award from the Canada Council for the Arts for promoting the works of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski.

Wnukowski trained at the Lake Como International Piano Academy in Italy where he worked with distinguished artists including Dmitri Bashkirov, Menahem Pressler, Claude Frank, and William Grant Naboré; at the Peabody Institute of Baltimore under the guidance of Leon Fleisher; and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with Graham Johnson and Ronan O’Hora. In March 2011, Daniel Wnukowski’s all-Liszt recital was recorded and broadcast over Swiss and other European radio stations.

Daniel Wnukowski plays Chopin Ballade No.4 – Part 1

Daniel Wnukowski performs Chopin’s Waltz in F Major Op. 34 No. 3

“He came into his own in the enormously variegated 24 Preludes Op. 28 by Chopin, where he displayed not only his affinity with the style but also the big guns to deal with some of the atrociously difficult ones as if they were child’s play; this was great playing and show Wnukowski to be a distinguished Chopinian.” Buenos Aires Herald

“…pyrotechnic display of virtuosity” Mundo Clasico

 Programs

Heaven and Hell: a Year of Liszt

Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
Mephisto Waltz No. 1
In Festo Transfigurationis Domini Nostri Jesu Christi
Sancta Dorothea
Paganini Etude No. 2
Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata Rémiscences de Don Juan

Masks

R. Schumann – Papillons, Op. 2
K. Szymanowski – Masks, Op. 34
R. Schumann – Carnaval, Op. 9

Monumental

F. Chopin – 24 preludes, Op. 28
J.S. Bach – Goldberg Variations