The Concert is probably at Keffer Chapel, WLU, 7:00 p.m.

It it’s elsewhere, we’ll let  you know!

Tickets $40/$25 from

www.ticketscene.ca/kwcms

Program:

      Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)           
      Sonate No.7 Es-Dur D568 ( E flat major)

      Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
      Fünf Stücke ( five pieces)
    – Intermezzo B-Dur op. 76 Nr. 4(B flat major)
    – Rhapsodie h-Moll op. 79 Nr. 1( B minor)

    _Intermezzo A-Dur op.118 Nr.2 ( A major)
   – Intermezzo b-Moll op. 117 Nr. 2 ( B flat minor)
  – Capriccio d-Moll op. 116 Nr. 7 ( D Minor)

PAUSE

      Frédéric Chopin (1810 –1849)
      Polonaise in Cis-Moll op.26 Nr. 1 ( C sharp minor)

      Ballade in F-dur op.38  ( F major)

      2 Mazurkas
      Scherzo Nr. 4 E-Dur op. 54 ( E major)

From her biography, in case you need to know!

btw: her recently released autobiogroaphy, A Note in Time, is a wonderful read, and would be even if it weren’t by such a great artist! Do look out for it  (e.g., WordsWorth can get it)

A legend visits ... For the legendary Arthur Rubinstein she was “the born Chopin interpreter” – a reputation, Janina Fialkowska has preserved until today. One may call, no, one must call the Grande Dame of the piano her mentor’s heir … Chopin’s spirit flows out of her in each melodic phrase … pin sharp pianistic calligraphy and overwhelming musicality … her natural narrative flow and her intrusively creative Tempo rubato … A real pianistic moment of glory …

For almost 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 playing” (Frankfurter Allgemeine).

Born in Canada, she began her piano studies with her mother at age 4 continuing on in her native Montreal with Yvonne Hubert. In Paris she studied with Yvonne Lefébure and in New York at the Juilliard School with Sascha Gorodnitzki, experiencing the best of both French and Russian piano traditions. Her career was 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 this composer.

Since then she has performed with the foremost orchestras worldwide under the baton of such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel, Sir Georg Solti, Sir Roger Norrington and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, to name one of the younger generation. She has won special recognition for a series of important premieres, notably Liszt’s newly discovered Third Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony and several contemporary piano concertos. Ms Fialkowska's discography includes many award-winning discs, e.g. the BBC Music Magazine’s 2013 “Instrumental CD of the Year" award as well as the Canadian "Juno Award" in 2018.

Her native Canada has bestowed upon her their highest honors: “Officer of the Order of Canada”, the “Governor General’s 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award in Classical Music” (Canada's equivalent to the US Kennedy Centre Awards), as well as three honorary doctorates. She passes on her wide musical experience in master classes and at her annual “International Piano Academy” in Bavaria, where she now resides and makes frequent appearances as a juror of the world's most prestigious piano competitions.