 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,
Klavier,
and Dux labels. Recordings 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’ (H.C. Schonberg in American Record
Guide), and ‘a recording by a master pianist’ (Journal of the
American Liszt Society). Wodnicki’s recording of the three Piano
Trios by Robert Muczynski (Centaur) was chosen by a Fanfare critic
as one of the top five albums on the ‘Best of 2004’ list; and the
2008 release on the Dux label of the Piano Concertos by Serocki,
Baird and Krenz received a Polish Phonographic Academy nomination
for the 2009 Fryderyk Award. Adam Wodnicki has also made numerous
radio and TV recordings as well as concerto recordings with the
National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
 He 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 and Nancyphonies in Nancy (France) and the
Chopin Festival in Marianske Lazne (Marienbad), Czech Republic; he
has also performed and taught in Japan, the Czech Republic,
Bulgaria, 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 8th Festival of Polish Pianists,
Wodnicki is Regents Professor of Piano at the University of North
Texas in Denton and Co-Director of International Piano Masterclasses in Varna. 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. Adam Wodnicki is a Steinway Artist.
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