Janina Fialkowska, the "Grande Dame of the piano," returns to Portland for recital co-produced by Portland Piano International and Oregon Music Teachers Association
PORTLAND, OR — Janina Fialkowska, the legendary Canadian pianist who has enchanted audiences around the world for 50 years, returns to Portland for a recital co-produced by Portland Piano International and the Oregon Music Teachers Association. Fialkowska will present this one-night-only performance on July 13 at the Portland Community College Performing Arts Center at Sylvania Campus.
Hailed as "a musician of extraordinary sensibility and captivating, artless purity" (Telegraph) and the "Grande Dame of the piano" (Allgemeine Zeitung), Fialkowska rocketed onto the international stage in 1974 after winning the inaugural Arthur Rubinstein Master Piano Competition. Since then, she has performed on the world's biggest recital stages and collaborated with leading orchestras under the batons of conductors Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel, Georg Solti, Klaus Mäkelä, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
A prolific recording artist, Fialkowska's critically acclaimed discography explores music of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, with a particular emphasis on the works of Frédéric Chopin, a composer with whom she has held a lifelong identification. A recipient of Canada's most prestigious cultural honors — including Officer of the Order of Canada and the Governor General's Lifetime Achievement Award in Classical Music — Fialkowska is also a gifted writer whose autobiography, A Note in Time, was published in 2021 by the London-based Novum Publishers.
Fialkowska's program for her Portland recital is as follows.
SATURDAY, JULY 13, AT 7 PM
Portland Community College Performing Arts Center at Sylvania Campus
CARL MARIA VON WEBER
Invitation to the Dance, op. 65
EDVARD GRIEG
Selections from Lyric Pieces:
Det var engang (Once upon a Time), op. 71, no. 1
For dine føtter (At Your Feet), op. 68, no. 3
Sommerfugl (Butterfly), op. 43, no. 1
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Fantasiestücke, op. 12
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Polonaise in C-sharp Minor, op. 26, no. 1
Ballade No. 2 in F Major, op. 38
Mazurka in B-flat Major, op. 7, no. 1
Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, op. 54
Tickets and more information
Tickets for Janina Fialkowska's Portland recital are available now at portlandpiano.org, where other details may be found — including program notes and a video of Fialkowska performing Chopin.
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PORTLAND PIANO INTERNATIONAL has presented more than 220 artists in recital and through outreach activities. Some of the greatest pianists in the world of music have played for Portland audiences because of this organization. While pianists have many opportunities to play the concerto repertoire, this is one of only a handful of recital series that remains devoted to the solo piano recital. Portland Piano International is a vital part of Portland's quality cultural life and it has consistently garnered praise from both the local and national media, heralded a "consistently brilliant Piano Recital Series" (Willamette Week) and "one of this city's musical treasures" (The Oregonian).