Adam Wodnicki

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, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Israel, South Africa, Colombia, Spain and Portugal. 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.