Polish Canadian pianist Daniel Wnukowski (vnoo-KOV-skee) is performing a homecoming recital on Friday, February 4 at Glenn Gould Studio, 8 PM. A highly gifted artist who left Ontario at age 15 to pursue studies in Europe and the US, Mr. Wnukowski will perform a concert entitled “Heaven and Hell: A Year of Liszt”.
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A new page with downloadable electronic press kits (EPK) available in four languages has now been uploaded to the Wnukowski.com website. It contains short & long biographies, press quotes, reviews and sample programs available in convenient word or pdf files. English, German, French and Polish.
Welcome to my website! As a pianist, music has always been the inner-core of my life. I am deeply gratified to have a virtual home in which I can share my music, thoughts and memories but the real praise must go to the composers who have left behind their great music. I am solely the medium which allows the composer’s intentions to blossom and spring to life.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
- Victor Hugo
Definitions of the word ‘pianist’:
*FYI: This website deals strictly with the first definition!
Whether it be destiny, some rare astrophysical occurrence, serendipity or a just another random convergence of events…you have stumbled upon my piano music blog!
I realize there are hundreds of other things you could be doing right now and so I wish that the time you spend here be as mutually stimulating, engaging and inspiring as it has been for me.
On this page you’ll find a few words about me. Pianists’ biographies can sometimes look so formal and forbidding, so instead I’ll walk you through the most important events of my life as they occurred and leave you to find the profound ‘existential’ meaning into how they shaped me into the person I am today.
So, how can we just leave music alone? A fast-paced culture together with beeping gadgets and state-of-the-art computers have created a phenomenen known as ‘music in a bottle syndrome’ which is basically ubiquitous music that you can access quickly and easily sometimes even with the push of a button. Sometimes, going to a piano recital today is like going to a butcher’s shop and asking for 2 kilograms of Rachman’ lard and 100 ml of Prokof’ vinegar. OK, I agree that Rachaminoff’s second sonata is a great piece of piano literature, but how many times do we have to hear it butchered in the same dull fashion, until it becomes so nautious that even a tired, old grub found in the corner of one’s basement seems more interesting?
A concert review following a piano recital given by Daniel Wnukowski in Tokyo, Japan which commemorated the unveiling of a new Chopin monument.
The Internationally Acclaimed & Gifted Daniel Wnukowski
From Windsor Life Magazine, Feb/March 2008 Edition
STORY BY LORI NEWTON
PHOTOGRAPHY BY RAMZA SARUNA
Every now and again throughout history, a child is discovered to possess such extraordinary talent at such an incredibly young age that it seems almost too unbelievable to be true. Whether they are in science, languages, the arts, athletics, or some other human endeavour, we call them child prodigies and we watch them in awe. Among musical prodigies we can point to Beethoven, Liszt, Mozart, Chopin, Paganini, Yehudi Menuhin and Yo-Yo Ma — all who displayed exceptional musical gifts at a very young age. The restof us mere mortals can only wonder what it might be like to possess so much awe inspiring talent.
Taken from the old website. Original post date: April 26, 2006
Every so often, I am stimulated to write diary entries not so joyous. And let me share with you a short reflection based on a time where I had truly lost it all…
View an online gallery of pianist Daniel Wnukowski’s most memorable blog photos.
