You cannot miss a tribute to Chopin on the occasion of the bicentenary of his birth (1810-2010); the program is entrusted to the piano of one of the most appreciated interpreters of the great Polish composer's romantic repertoire. For the Spoleto Festival in the setting of Teatro Romano the concert will have the characteristics of a unique event, as the magic of music will be joined by the pathos of light and video to give the audience a memorable evening.

Program
Polonaise in A major, Op. 40, No. 1

2 Waltzes from op.34

           No. 1 in A-flat major

           No. 2 in A minor

3 Mazurkas, op. 59

           No. 1 in A minor

           No. 2 in A-flat major

           No. 3 in F-sharp minor

Polonaise in F sharp minor, op. 44

2 Waltzes, op. 69 (opera posthumously)

           No. 1 in A-flat major

           No. 2 in B minor

4 Mazurkas, op. 33

           No. 1 in G sharp minor

           No. 2 in D major

           No. 3 in C major

           No. 4 in B minor

Polonaise in A-flat major, op. 53

Daniel Wnukowski
Born in 1981 to Windsor, Canada, as a pianist he studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, the Peabody Institute at John Hopkins University in Baltimore with Fleisher and the Warsaw Academy of Music with Paleczny. He has also studied with Perry, Frank, Fialkowska, Pressler, Hambro and Kalish. He was recently admitted to the prestigious Lake Como International Piano Academy where he works under the direction of such recognized pianists as William Grant Naboré, Fou Ts'ong and Dimitri Bashkirov. Reported by critics at the XIV International Piano Competition "Fryderyk Chopin" in Warsaw (2000) the same year he also participated in the International Chopin Festival in Duszniki Zdrój (Poland) and in 2001 recorded a recital with the composer's music for Radio-Canada. He carries out concert activity in America and Europe where he has performed in the prestigious Concertgebouw Music Halls in Amsterdam, Salle Pleyel to Paris, Stadt Casino in Basel, and National Philharmonic in Warsaw, interpreting composers from the classical repertoire with a predilection for Romantic, Neo-Romantic, and Impressionist music. In April 2007 he played with the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, under the baton of Tomasz Bugaj; the concert was broadcast live throughout the country.
Last May, Daniel Wnukowski performed in a special recital to Tokyo in Japan during the unveiling ceremony of the new monument dedicated by the city to Chopin. In the same month he performed an outdoor concert to Singapore for an audience of about 3,000 people.
Daniel Wnukowski is also known as an accompanist pianist. In early 2010 he opened the Chopin year to Poznań in Poland with Aleksandra Kurzak, soprano of theopera Metropolitan Theater. In 2009, he inaugurated several major Chopin festivals around the world, including the "Chopin in Autumn Colors" festival, the fifth oldest international festival dedicated to Chopin to Antonin in Poland.
Daniel Wnukowski also recently received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to promote the Polish composer´sopera , Karol Szymanowski.

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