Jarred Dunn

“Yamaha pianos give me the freedom to let my imagination run wild. When performing on a Yamaha, I can unfold any possibility: from powerful bass to delicate cantilena, the instrument gives me the unmistakable sensation of limitlessness.”

Described by critics as “a piano sound-colour magician” (Muzikos Barai, Vilnius), “evocative and mystical” (New York Classical Music), "technically perfect" by Belarusian First Radio, and “a virtuoso with the most exquisite touch” (Freethought Today, Madison), “an important musician, pianist, scholar, and writer within the great art of serious music” (David Dubal, WWFM/Juilliard faculty emeritus), Jarred Dunn is featured on the 2018 CBC Top 30 Under 30: Hot Canadian Classical Musicians (CBC). Mr. Dunn is the First Prize and Concerto Award winner of the 2018 Lithuanian International Chopin Competition (Vilnius), leading to his premiere with the Lithuanian Chamber Symphony in November 2018 and a finalist/prizewinner in the 1st Jan Hofmann International Competition in Kraków. His first recording, Chopin and Debussy, was produced by Dan Barker (Freedom From Religion Foundation) and recorded by Audio for the Arts (Madison, WI). He has been heard on the CBC, WQXR New York, Belarus First Radio Minsk, and Freethought Radio-Television. He is particularly interested in the works of Chopin, Brahms, Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Liszt, Szymanowski, and H.M. Górecki.

Mr. Dunn has performed worldwide as a recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestras, and his career has included invitations to perform in Poland, Hungary, Belarus, Slovakia, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, Malta,The Czech Republic, England, United States, Canada, China, and Australia. He enjoys playing solo recitals, a capacity in which he performs regularly.

In his repertoire are over thirty concertos, representing his interest in this genre of performing. He has collaborated with conductors and appeared as a concerto soloist with orchestras in Canada as well as Poland, Lithuania, Berlin, Hungary, and Belarus.

“A revered pedagogue” (Tonebase Piano), Mr. Dunn has given lectures, workshops and master classes in Seattle, Toronto, Poland, Lithuania, and Australia. His articles have been published in the Canadian Music Educators’ Journal and Canadian Music Teacher. Of special importance to him was research at the former site of Auschwitz-Birkenau and music during the Holocaust, culminating in an article about Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (former cellist of the Auschwitz Women's Orchestra).

He has been sought for adjudicating in competitions in Canada and in Poland, and received numerous scholarships and awards for scholastic, musical, and pedagogical achievements.

Jarred Dunn is a double-graduate of the University of Toronto (B.M., Piano; B.Ed.), and he took professional studies at The Juilliard School with Jacob Lateiner and Yoheved Kaplinsky. While in New York, he became one of the only members of his generation to study with Dorothy Taubman. He completed his Master of Music and Post-Graduate Diploma (with Distinction) at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland, where he was a student of Anna Górecka (daughter of composer H. M. Górecki), and pursued an Artist Diploma with Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń at the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. His interest in a multitude of approaches to piano playing (and observation of musical personalities) has taken him around the world, to participate in master classes and consult with renowned pianists and pedagogues.