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Janina Fialkowska

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Biography

Janina Fialkowska, born May 7, 1951 in Montreal, Quebec, is a Canadian classical pianist. She began studying piano at age four with her mother and made her debut as a soloist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at 12. In 1969, she won first prize in the CBC National Radio Competition for Young Performers. Her international career was launched by Arthur Rubinstein after he intervened on her behalf during the inaugural Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv in 1974. She performed Franz Liszt’s complete Transcendental Études in various cities in 1986 and gave the world premiere of Liszt's Third Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1990. In 2002, she overcame an aggressive cancerous tumor and resumed performing. Her album Chopin Recital 3 won a Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year in 2018.
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