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Janina Fialkowska’s keyboard brilliance returns to the Coast

Coast Recital
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Janina Fialkowska performs at the Raven’s Cry Theatre on March 20.

Beloved the world over for her exquisite pianism, Janina Fialkowska returns to the Coast Recital Society this Sunday afternoon, March 20. The concert at the Raven’s Cry Theatre begins at 2:30 p.m., with a pre-concert chat at 1:30 p.m. hosted by CRS artistic director Frances Wainwright.

For over 40 years, Janina Fialkowska has enchanted audiences with her glorious, lyrical sound, her sterling musicianship and her profound sense of musical integrity. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung calls her “one of the Grandes Dames of piano playing.” Fialkowska has appeared as guest artist with major orchestras around the globe, with such renowned conductors as Andrew Davis, Charles Dutoit, Bernard Haitink, Georg Solti and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Fialkowska was the founding director of the hugely successful “Piano Six” project and its successor Piano Plus. She is much sought-after for her master classes worldwide, and is the founder of the International Piano Academy held annually at the Bavarian Music Academy in Marktoberdorf, Germany. There she passes on the traditions of her own teachers from the Russian piano school of Anton Rubinstein and the French school of Alfred Cortot, as well as her unique musical experiences as a protégé of Arthur Rubinstein. Fialkowska is an Officer of the Order of Canada and the recipient of the 2012 Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement in Classical Music, Canada’s foremost honour for excellence in the performing arts. She was the first woman instrumentalist to be so honoured.

Fialkowska’s recital will be devoted entirely to the music of Frédéric Chopin. Music critic Bryce Morrison raved in Gramophone Magazine about her all-Chopin two disc: “Indeed, lesser mortals may well weep with envy at such unfaltering authority.”

For ticket information, call 604-885-0991 or visit www.coastrecitalsociety.ca.