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:: Daniel Wnukowski
Canadian pianist Daniel Wnukowski is one of the leading young pianists of his generation and regularly performs throughout Europe, North America and South America in many prestigious concert halls. 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 and vocal accompanist.
Due to Daniel Wnukowski’s special affinity for Chopin and other important Polish composers, he has actively performed in numerous International Festivals and Chopin Foundations around the world.
In May 2010, Daniel Wnukowski performed a special recital in Tokyo, Japan to commemorate the unveiling of a new Chopin monument in that city. This also led to a debut in Singapore, in the hall of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra. His outdoor concert at the Singapore Botanic Gardens received rousing ovations by a crowd of close to 3000 people. He is the recipient of an award from the Canada Council for the Arts for helping to promote the works of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski.
In the beginning of 2010, he inaugurated the Chopin year in Poznań, Poland together with Metropolitan Opera Soprano Aleksandra Kurzak and was chosen as a Samling Scholar. In 2009, Daniel Wnukowski inaugurated many important Chopin festivals around the world including the "Chopin in Autumn Colors" Festival. 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.
In 2001, his all-Chopin recital was recorded live by Radio-Canada in Ottawa for broadcast on Radio-Canada French radio stations.
He was trained at the Lake Como International Piano Academy in Italy directed by Martha Argerich and William Grant Naboré and at the Peabody Institute of Baltimore under the guidance of Leon Fleisher.
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