Janina Fialkowska
Janina Fialkowska (born May 7, 1951 in Montreal ) is a Canadian pianist.
Life
Fialkowska is the daughter of Bridget Todd, a Canadian of upper-class origins who received musical training from, among others, Alfred Cortot at the École Normale de Musique de Paris before the Second World War . Her father Jerzy Fialkowski was a Polish officer who immigrated in 1945. She is related to actor Christopher Plummer . Fialkowska received basic musical training from her mother, then at the École Vincent-d'Indy in Montreal, made her first appearance in 1963 with the Orchester symphonique de Montréal and began her studies with Yvonne Hubert at the Université de Montréal and in Paris with Yvonne Lefébure . From 1970 she worked in New York City at the Juilliard School of Music, first as a student and later as assistant to Sasha Gorodnitzki (1905-1986). Since 1974 her career has been under the wing of Arthur Rubinstein .
Fialkowska plays Chopin and Liszt in particular in the classical repertoire . She also took care of the presentation of contemporary Polish composers like Witold Lutosławski , Andrzej Panufnik and Marjan Mozetich , as well as the North American Libby Larsen .
At the beginning of the 21st century, Fialkowska had to suspend concerts due to a serious illness of the left arm, then began to play concerts with the healthy arm and transposed piano literature for the left hand to the right.
In 2013, in the year of Lutosławski's hundredth birthday, she rehearsed his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.
Web links
- Literature by and about Janina Fialkowska in the catalog of the German National Library
- Janina Fialkowska , website (de)
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| SURNAME | Fialkowska, Janina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |