RIP Leon Fleisher
May you rest in peace, Leon Fleisher! Leon was one of my most influential teachers who helped shape my understanding of music as I know it today. Anyone who had the privilege of working with him, was immediately taken on an inquisitive quest from day one – a...
A Stroke of Genius
Daniel’s improv session in the style of Beethoven featured on Classical FM with 55,000 FB shares.
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Gershwin Reaches One Million Hits
Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue reaches 1 million hits and over 500,000 views on Facebook.
Free Livestreamed Concerts
Enjoy a series of free live-streamed recitals with Daniel Vnukowski. Help support this project!
10 Commandments for Professional Pianists
If you were to ask me about my strongest childhood memories, two things immediately come to mind: the piano and my school lunchbox with a blue penguin painted on its cover. All I can remember about the lunchbox was that it accompanied me everywhere I went and was made of tough tin metal, as were most lunchboxes back in the day.
Sold-out Carnegie Hall Recital
Read about Daniel Vnukowski’s sold-out Carnegie Hall debut recital including reviews.
Program Notes – Carnegie Hall
Tonight’s program presents three musical figures that span over 250 years of Western music history. Although one can immediately note considerable differences in each composer’s style or life story, there is one binding factor that brings all three of these composers together: Each composer had left his homeland and readily assimilated into a new culture – a new home where each conceived some of his greatest works.
The Road To Rathaus
With the release of a new CD of Karol Rathaus’s piano music, numerous performances of his compositions this season and an unabashed enthusiasm for the research of his works, I thought it would be ripe time-wise to write a blogpost on precisely what triggered my interest in this composer’s life & works.