Biography

Canadian pianist Daniel Wnukowski is one of the leading young pianists of his generation and regularly performs throughout Europe, North America, South America and Asia in many prestigious concert halls. He has performed with many important orchestras such as the Polish Radio Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Windsor Symphony and Southfield Symphony with conducters such as Jerzy Maksymiuk, Alain Trudel and David Amos. He has also performed in numerous important festivals around the world such as the Chopiniana festival in Argentina, the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi in Italy and at the Chopin and His Europe festival in Poland. Daniel Wnukowski is also very active as a chamber musician and vocal accompanist.

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, Polandwhich 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.