Laureate
Krzysztof Jablonski’s love of music began in Wroclaw, Poland, where he was born. At age 12 he performed his first concert with orchestra and by 20 his New York Timesacclaimed “pianistic power of a very high magnitude” had taken him across four continents. In addition to his Honens win, Jablonski was prize-winner at the Dublin IPC, the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition and the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition. He is a Chopin specialist who plays “elegantly and with unshakable interpretive control” (The New York Times). He has devoted much of his musical career to the music of Chopin and, in 2010, performed the Opening Recital of the Chopin Year Celebration at the Senate of the Republic of Poland. Jablonski immigrated to Canada in 1998. He has a busy international touring schedule and teaches in Calgary. More recently, Jablonski performed with Valery Gergiev and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra for the Clean Baltic Sea Concert fundraiser in Helsinki. This performance was streamed live via Internet and recorded by Finnish Radio and TV. He has also toured Japan extensively, including performances at the Kirishima Festival and with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he celebrates 30 years of his artistic career.
Krzysztof Jablonski studied with Janina Butor and Andrzej Jasinski and graduated with honours in 1987 from the Academy of Music in Katowice, from which he also earned his Ph.D. in 1996. He is a Professor of the F. Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and at Calgary’s Mount Royal University Conservatory.
Jablonski has made several live recordings for radio and television and numerous CDs in Germany, Japan and Poland.