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The exceptional artistry and brilliant virtuosity of Janina Fialkowska have won her enthusiastic accolades from audiences and critics worldwide. Born to a Canadian mother and a Polish father in Montreal, Janina Fialkowska started to study the piano with her mother at the age of five. Eventually she entered the Ecole de Musique Vincent d'Indy, studying with Yvonne Hubert. The University of Montreal awarded her both advanced degrees of “Baccalaureat” and “Maitrise” by the time she was only 17. After studies with the Yvonne Lefebure in Paris, she entered the Juilliard School of Music in New York, where she first studied with Sascha Gorodnitzki and later became his assistant for five years. In 1974 her career was launched by Arthur Rubinstein after her prize-winning performance at his inaugural Master Piano Competition in Israel.

She has performed with the foremost U.S. orchestras, all of the principal Canadian and Mexican orchestras as well as such prestigious orchestras as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, London's Philharmonia Orchestra, the BBC Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, the Scottish National Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic and the French and Belgium National Radio Orchestras, the Israel Philharmonic, the Osaka Philharmonic and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. She has worked with such renowned conductors as Charles Dutoit, Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Georg Solti, Leonard Slatkin and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski.

She has won special recognition for a series of important premieres, most notably the world premiere performance of a newly discovered Piano Concerto by Franz Liszt with the Chicago Symphony in 1990. Janina Fialkowska was the Founding Director of the award-winning “Piano Six” project and its successor “Piano Plus”. This latest project brings together some of Canada’s greatest Classical musicians with Canadians who, for either geographical or financial reasons, would otherwise be unable to hear this calibre of “live” classical performance.

The sixty-minute CBC television documentary, "the World of Janina Fialkowska” that aired to great acclaim throughout Canada won a Special Jury Prize at the 1992 San Francisco International Film Festival. In October 2002 Ms Fialkowska was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2006, Acadia University awarded her an honorary doctorate.

In January of 2002 Ms. Fialkowska’s career was brought to a dramatic halt by the discovery of a tumour in her left arm. After successful surgery to remove the cancer, she underwent further surgery. After 18 months of performing the Ravel and Prokofiev “concertos for the left hand” which she transcribed for her right hand she has resumed her two-handed career beginning with a highly emotional recital held in Germany in January 2004.

Ms Fialkowska's vast discography includes many discs featuring music by Chopin, Liszt, Szymanowski, Paderewski and many others, her latest being a unique performance of piano concertos by Mozart concertos in an authentic version consisting of piano solo and string quintet accompaniment.

The 2007/08 sees her busy traveling in the United States and Canada as well as in Europe and in Japan. For further information please check her website at www.fialkowska.com