Tune every day at 1PM for a complete work performed by the award winning pianist who'll be in Winnipeg March 23rd performing with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra.

 For over 40 years, concert pianist Janina Fialkowska has enchanted audiences and critics around the world. She has been praised for her musical integrity, her refreshing natural approach and her unique piano sound thus becoming “one of the Grandes Dames of piano playing” (Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2015).

Born in Canada, she began her piano studies with her mother at age 4 continuing on in her native Montreal with Yvonne Hubert. In Paris she studied with Yvonne Lefébure and in New York at the Juilliard School with Sascha Gorodnitzki, experiencing the best of both French and Russian piano traditions. Her career was launched in 1974, when the legendary Arthur Rubinstein became her mentor after her prize-winning performance at his inaugural Master Piano Competition, calling her a “born Chopin interpreter” laying the foundation for her lifelong identification with this composer.

Since then she has performed with the foremost orchestras worldwide under the baton of such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel, Sir Georg Solti, Sir Roger Norrington and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, to name one of the younger generation. She has won special recognition for a series of important premieres, notably Liszt’s newly discovered Third Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony and several contemporary piano concertos. Ms Fialkowska's discography includes many award-winning discs, e.g. the BBC Music Magazine’s 2013 “Instrumental CD of the Year" award.

Her native Canada has bestowed upon her their highest honors: “Officer of the Order of Canada”, the “Governor General’s 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award in Classical Music” (Canada's equivalent to the US Kennedy Centre Awards), as well as three honorary doctorates. She passes on her wide musical experience in master classes and at her annual “International Piano Academy” in Bavaria, where she now resides and and makes frequent appearances as a juror of the world's most prestigious piano competitions.

2016 marks her 65th birthday which she will celebrate by giving a year-long “Birthday Celebration Tour", performing several times in the UK, Germany and Poland, but also playing concerts in Japan, Spain, Portugal, Austria and about 30 concerts in Canada.

Janina Fialkowska is performing with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra March 23rd and she will be Sarah Jo Kirsch's guest in the Diamond Lane Tuesday afternoon March 22nd between 4:30 PM and 5 PM. Tune in!

And Tune in to Intermezzo every day this week at 1 PM for a different performance by the pianist.

Watch this fantastic piece directed and animated by: Patrick Doan (DEFASTEN, KNIGHTGEIST)
sound design: Shervin Shaeri (mutantjukebox.co.uk)

The music is: "Etude No.12 in C minor, Opus 10" (Révolutionnaire) by Frédéric Chopin
intrepreted by Janina Fialkowska, recipient of the Canadian 2012 Governor General's Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award

 

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