\u201cA pianist to watch.\u201d
\nNew York Classical Review<\/p>\n
\u201cA dashing pianist.\u201d
\nThe Sunday Times<\/p>\n
Polish-Canadian pianist Daniel Vnukowski (pronounced Vnoo-koff\u2019-skee) has toured throughout Europe, North America, South America and Asia. He has performed with many orchestras, including the Polish Radio Orchestra, Orchestra Now (TON), Sinfonia Varsovia, Windsor Symphony, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, Sinfonia Iuventus, Poznan Philharmonic, Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic with conductors such as Leon Botstein, Ariel Zuckermann, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Alain Trudel, Jacek Kasprzyk and David Amos.<\/p>\n
Mr. Vnukowski has also taken part in numerous International Festivals such as Chopin and His Europe in Warsaw, Poland; Festival Dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy and Chopiniana in Buenos Aires, Argentina and lectures at universities and institutes around the world, including University of California San Diego, Queens College CUNY, University of Toronto, University of Windsor and Tsinghua University in Beijing. In 2020, Mr. Vnukowski continues his cross-continental lecture recital series on Holocaust music at universities throughout the world.<\/p>\n
With the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Vnukowski\u2019s virtual live streaming project from home has made waves internationally, and reached over half a million viewers. The livestreams have been endorsed by Fazioli Pianoforte and featured on NPR Radio, Classical FM, Ludwig Van Toronto and BBC Music Magazine playlists.<\/p>\n
Since 2019, Mr. Vnukowski has frequently performed the music of Karol Rathaus, a Weimar-era composer whose music came to his attention in 2016 through his work with Exil.Arte, a Vienna-based organization whose mission is to restore \u2018degenerate\u201d music. In February 2019, Mr. Vnukowski performed the composer\u2019s 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, where Rathaus was on faculty and made his sold-out Weill Hall recital at Carnegie Hall debut in a program that included the composer\u2019s Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 20.<\/p>\n
For these performances, Mr. Vnukowski was called \u201ca formidable pianist\u201d (ConcertoNet) and \u201ca pianist to watch\u201d (New York Classical Review). His latest recording of the solo piano music of Karol Rathaus presented world-premiere recordings and garnered many positive reviews: \u201cVnukowski plays with sympathetic understanding\u201d \u2013 Limelight Magazine (July 2019); \u201cVnukowski communicates the emotions within the music.\u201d \u2013 Fanfare Magazine (Issue 43:1 \u2013 Sept\/Oct 2019); \u201cplayed to the hilt\u201d \u2013 American Record Guide (July\/August). This album was also featured in many interviews during a cross-country radio tour on various U.S. radio stations such as NPR, TPR, WBAA, and WOSU. Mr. Vnukowski will also be featured in a documentary on Karol Rathaus produced by Lev Deych & Michael Haas.<\/p>\n
Mr. Vnukowski has performed a cross-country, community outreach tour throughout Canada from Fort Nelson, B.C. to Corner Brook, NL. These tours began in early 2019, with a visit to Canada\u2019s Western provinces, organized by \u201cPiano Six Artists\u201d and ended later that year with a tour of Canada\u2019s Atlantic provinces \u2013 Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, organized by Debut Atlantic. In November 2019, Mr. Vnukowski also performed in the first-ever fundraiser for the Africville Museum in Halifax, NS., featuring the music of Black composers such as Florence B. Price, Zenobia P. Perry, Art Tatum and Duke Ellington.<\/p>\n
For more information, please visit danperforms.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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