Daniel Wnukowski Recital

(Note that this event requires registration at AmateurPianists.org; see link below.)

Exciting news! We will be offering a special virtual recital in June featuring Daniel Wnukowski, a wonderfully talented Canadian-Polish pianist, who has performed throughout the world, including in Poland and Austria where his Polish roots lend poignancy to the music created during the holocaust of incarceration of WWII. Daniel has also performed in private residences in San Diego where some of us got to hear his gorgeous musicality and technique in solo and collaborative appearances with other pianists including Ines Irawati and Alevtyna Dobina. (See below for biography on Daniel.)

This FREE virtual event will be broadcast using Zoom and after the virtual recital, Daniel will be able to answer questions.

IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU REGISTER AT THIS LINK: https://bit.ly/AP-June28. You will receive a Zoom invitation sometime before June 28 and again 3 hours prior. We will start Zoom 15 minutes before to allow everyone adequate time to log on.

Look forward to seeing you on June 28, 2020. Please stay healthy.

Lulu Hsu
Chair, AmateurPianists

Biography

Hailed as “a pianist to watch” by New York Classical Review and “a dashing pianist” by The Sunday Times, Polish-Canadian pianist Daniel Vnukowski has performed throughout Europe, North America, South America and Asia in prestigious concert halls. Dedicated to giving back to the country that nurtured him as an artist, Vnukowski founded “Piano Six – New Generation” to perform outreach concerts for remote communities in Canada and the “Collingwood Summer Music Festival”.

During the Covid-19 crisis, Vnukowski’s virtual live streaming project from home has made waves internationally, with his performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue reaching over a 1 million hits and 500,000 views. The virtual concerts have been endorsed by NPR.ORG, BBC Music Magazine, Ludwig Van in Toronto, The New Classical FM, ideacity and Fazioli Pianos.

The music of interwar Jewish composers also occupies a special place in Mr. Vnukowski’s repertoire and during 2019 he continued to focus on the music of Karol Rathaus, performing the composer’s Piano Concerto with The Orchestra Now conducted by Leon Botstein, as part of a Rathaus Festival presented by the Copland School of Music at Queens College; made his sold-out Carnegie Hall recital debut in a program that included the composer’s Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 20; and released an all-Rathaus recording of solo piano music on the Toccata label. Mr. Vnukowski will be featured in a documentary on Rathaus produced by Lev Deych & Michael Haas.