Canadian pianist Janina Fialkowska’s career is associated with several great names: she received her first piano lessons from her mother, who had been a pupil of Alfred Cortot in Paris. And one of her early mentors was the legendary Arthur Rubinstein, who praised her as a “born Chopin interpreter”. For over four decades she has felt at home on the great concert podiums of the world, and is now reckoned among the “Grandes Dames of piano playing” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). The daily La Presse in her home town of Montreal wrote: “Fialkowska has become an artist of rare distinction as well as retaining all the virtuosity of her youth.” She now returns after her acclaimed début at the Ruhr Piano Festival in 2015!