Dunn

Session Description

How does the representation of Chopin’s pianism affect our understanding of his teaching and practice? Chopin’s fingerings reveal that his approach to piano playing differed from how it appears in many editions of his music. This session focuses on Chopin's fingerings in primary sources. Examples from Etudes Op 10 and Op 25 will be compared to the editions of his pupils. Furthermore, technical configurations found in the Etudes will be linked to complex portions of Chopin's Polish works (Mazurkas, Ballades, Polonaises). Demonstrations will show that primary sources can reveal best practices for teaching fingerings in Chopin’s music. Participants may bring passages with complex fingering or technical problems, and Dr. Dunn will offer a solution.

Biography

Dr. Jarred Dunn (Tonebase Artist, Yamaha Artist) teaches at McGill University and has been invited to give lectures and master classes at Juilliard, Mannes, SMU, Katowice Academy, Bydgoszcz Academy, Mount Royal Conservatory and numerous others. Critics have praised his performances as a recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestras in the United States, Canada, and Europe. His discography is heard on CBC/Radio-Canada, WWFM, WQXR, VNMO, 96.3 New Classical network, Belarus First Radio, and others, including Chopin's Diary: The Mazurkas (Lexicon), alongside albums of Debussy, Górecki, and Brahms.

Mr. Dunn won 1st Prize and Concerto Award at the Lithuanian International Chopin Competition (Vilnius) and is a prize-winner of the Jan Hoffman International Competition (Kraków), Rome, Verona, and Bari competitions. He teaches at festivals such as Semaine Internationale Piano et Musique de Chambre (Switzerland), Chetham's Summer School for Pianists (Manchester), Talent Master Courses (Brescia), Tonebase Piano, Tonebase Chamber Music (Vermont), and Kallmunz Festival (Germany). He studied with Andrei Gavrilov, Maria João-Pires, Anna Górecka, Andrzej Jasiński, Katarzyna-Popowa-Zydroń, Dorothy Taubman, Yoheved Kaplinsky, and Jacob Lateiner.