 Internationally renowned pianist, recording artist
and pedagogue, Polish born artist ADAM WODNICKI has received acclaim
on five continents for his dramatic interpretations, poetic
sensitivity and brilliant technique. He can be heard on MUZA,
FOLKWAYS, CENTAUR, WERGO,
ALTARUS and
KLAVIER labels. Recent
releases of cello and piano sonatas by Dzubay, Muczynski and
Shostakovich with cellist Carter Enyeart (Centaur) and solo discs
with piano works by Ignacy Jan Paderewski (Altarus) received rave
notices: “one of the year’s best contemporary chamber music
albums” (Chicago Tribune), “incontestable brilliance” (Harold
C. Schonberg in American Record Guide), and “a recording by a
master pianist” (Journal of the American Liszt Society). The most
recent CD release of the three Piano Trios by Robert Muczynski was
chosen by a FANFARE critic as one of the top five recordings on the
“Best of 2004” list. Wodnicki has also made numerous radio and
TV recordings as well as concerto recordings with the Polish
National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Adam Wodnicki has concertized and taught in North and South America,
Europe, Africa and the Far East. He has appeared in such musical
centers as Krakow, Warsaw, Helsinki, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston,
New York, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei, Tel Aviv, Pretoria and
Prague. In recent seasons he has appeared at prestigious
international music festivals such as Arundel Festival in England,
Les Rencontres Internationales Frederic Chopin in Nohant, France,
Chopin Festival in Marianske Lazne (Marienbad), Czech Republic, and
others; he has also performed and taught in Japan, the Czech
Republic, Ukraine, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Israel, South Africa, Colombia,
Spain, Portugal, Italy, Argentina, and Austria. Since 1991 he has returned yearly to his native
Poland for highly successful tours; his appearance at the Paderewski
Festival in Krakow was described by the press as a “pianistic sensation”(Czas Krakowski).
Adam Wodnicki studied with Jan Hoffman, Guido Agosti and Gyorgy
Sebok, and his artistic roots can be traced to the traditions of
Fryderyk Chopin, Franz Liszt and Ferrucio Busoni. Three-time
prizewinner of the Annual Chopin Society National Piano Competition
in Warsaw and the recipient of three prizes at the Eighth Festival
of Polish Pianists, Wodnicki is Professor of Piano at the University
of North Texas in Denton, and Co-Director of an international summer
course Piano Masterclasses in Prague, now in its sixth year. He has
served on juries of international competitions and is a performance
editor for the Musica Iagellonica’s first ever edition of The
Complete Works by Paderewski. Mr. Wodnicki is a Steinway Artist. |
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