Janina Fialkowska

Janina Fialkowska ( born May 7, 1951 in Montreal ) is a Canadian pianist.

Life

Fialkowska is the daughter of a Canadian upper-class origins, before the Second World War, a musical education, among others Alfred Cortot received at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. Her father was a 1945 immigrant Polish officer. It is related to the actor Christopher Plummer. Fialkowska received musical training with her mother, then at the École Vincent- d'Indy in Montreal, had her first appearance in 1963 with the Orchestre 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 pupil and later assistant Sasha Gorodnitzki ( 1905-1986 ). Since 1974, her career was under the tutelage of Arthur Rubinstein.

Fialkowska plays in the classical repertoire especially Chopin and Liszt. It has also taken care of the presentation of contemporary Polish composer Witold Lutosławski as Andrzej Panufnik and Marjan Mozetich, as well as the North American Libby Larsen.

Fialkowska had to stop the concert operation at the beginning of the 21st century due to a severe disease of the left arm, then first began to play concerts with his good arm and transposed this piano literature for the left hand to the right.

In the year of the centenary of the birth of Lutosławski studied them in 2013 whose Concerto for piano and orchestra.