For 50 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” (Frankfurter Allgemeine.) She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and won the Governor General’s 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award in Classical Music.
Her career 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 the composer. She shares her musical experience at her “International Piano Academy” in Bavaria, where she now resides and frequently appears as a juror in the world’s most prestigious piano competitions.
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