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::Concert Experience
Classical pianist Daniel Wnukowski regularly performs throughout Europe, North America and South America in many prestigious concert halls. Among these the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, Poland, the Concertgebouw Music Hall in Amsterdam, Holland, the Salle Pleyel in Paris, France, and the Barbican in London, UK. He has performed with the Polish Radio Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Windsor Symphony, Southfield Symphony, Jewish Community Orchestra, Celebrity Symphony Orchestra, Lodz Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and has also been very active as a chamber musician performing together with the Sonoris Quartet of Vienna.
Due to Daniel Wnukowski’s special affinity for Chopin and other important Polish composers, he has actively performed in numerous International Chopin Festivals across the world organized by Chopin societies in Paris, Rome, Vienna, Basel, Toronto, New York, Detroit, Warsaw, Duszniki Zdroj and Buenos Aires where he is continuously re-engaged.
::Important Events
At age 14, he performed at the Polish Embassy for government diplomats and officials in Ottawa, Canada, becoming the youngest pianist to ever perform at the Embassy. In 1997, in remembrance of the outbreak of World War II, he performed a recital at the National Theatre in Warsaw, Poland in front of an audience of over 2,000 people, which was broadcasted internationally on European television. In 2001, his all-Chopin recital was recorded live by Radio-Canada in Ottawa for broadcast on Radio-Canada French radio stations. In 2007, he performed Brahms 2nd piano concerto and Mozart’s KV595 with the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Poland which was broadcast on Polish radio stations under the direction of Tomasz Bugaj.
At the XIV Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw, critics singled him out for his idiomatic and compelling readings of Chopin’s music. He is also the winner of the National Chopin Piano Competition in Poland, for which he was awarded a government grant and many concerts throughout Europe.
::Background and Education
Born in Canada, Daniel Wnukowski was born with a natural talent and a musical destiny to fulfill. At age 3 and a half, he showed strong fascination for a grand piano made completely out of glass in a music store and begged his parents to begin taking piano lessons.
In 2006, he was one of 7 students out of a pool of 500 applications of pianists to be accepted into the Lake Como International Piano Academy in Italy directed by Martha Argerich and William Grant Naboré. In 2003, Mr. Wnukowski completed his studies at the Peabody Institute of Baltimore under the guidance of Leon Fleisher.
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