Jarred Dunn won first prize and concerto award at the 7th Lithuanian International Chopin Competition (Vilnius) and is a prizewinner of the 1st Jan Hoffman International Competition (Kraków). He won piano and chamber music prizes at the D. Vitti, Verona Zinetti, and Rome Premio International Competitions. He is described by critics as a “piano sound-colour magician” (Muzikos Barai), “performer with exquisite pedalling” (Ludwig van Toronto), and “technically perfect” (Belarus First Radio). His playing has been heard on CBC/Radio-Canada, New Classical 96.3FM, WWFM, WQXR New York, Belarusian First Radio, and Madison Freethought Radio/Television, including recordings, live broadcasts, and recitals. CBC Music featured him on This is My Music, Top Thirty Under Thirty, and Five Things I Learned From Maria João-Pires.

Mr. Dunn’s discography includes Chopin and Debussy (AFA, 2018), Brahms in Solitude (2022); Chopin’s Diary: The Mazurkas (Lexicon Classics, 2023), and in 2024, the complete piano solo and piano duo works of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, performed in piano duo with Anna Górecka, the composer’s daughter. His 2022 recording Brahms in Solitude garnered attention in the “Open Music Review” and Five-Star rating in both La Scena Musicale and Piano Professional, describing him as,

A Brahms natural… his voicing and clarity speak to his understanding of Brahms’s idol, J.S. Bach…Dunn’s interpretations are timeless and still, but never halt the music’s natural momentum. His soft sound is full-bodied and resonant, at times unthinkably quiet…Like Radu Lupu, Jarred Dunn is an innately “thinking” pianist who knows how to place every note without the end result sounding calculated. His Intermezzo Op. 119 No. 1 is serene contemplation free of exaggeration, an entirely successful creation.

Jarred Dunn performs at Yamaha Performance Centre, Warsaw Chopin Museum, NOSPR Katowice, Dvorana Hall, Isabel Bader Centre, Owen Arts Center, Opera Bordeaux, Chapelle Musique de Bon-Pasteur, Canadian Music Centre, Klavierhaus Göttingen, Vilnius Town Hall, NYC Klavierhaus, and Chopin Festival of New York. He has performed with ATMA Quartet, pianists Anna Górecka and Maria João-Pires, cellist Marc Jaermann, and violinist Anna Kuk as Duo Mirage. He has served as collaborative pianist at Brahms Festival and Master Classes (Austria), and artist-faculty at Semaine International Piano et Musique de Chambre (Switzerland), Chetham’s Summer School, and Tonebase Piano Summer Camp in Vermont. He has performed with the Lithuanian Chamber, Vilnius Cantus, Toruń, Budapest Chamber, Belarusian Radio, NOSPR, Toronto Sinfonia, and Niagara Symphonies, among others. He judges in national and international competitions.

Noted a “revered pedagogue” (Tonebase Piano) for his articulate and precise technical understanding, he has given master classes and lectures at The Juilliard School, SMU Meadows School of the Arts, Mannes College, Oberlin College-Conservatory, Bydgoszcz Academy, Katowice Academy, Royal College of Music (London) and numerous other pre-colleges/universities in North America. While still completing his Doctorate at McGill University Schulich School of Music, he was invited to its faculty. He studied with Andrei Gavrilov, Maria João-Pires, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, Anna Górecka, Andrzej Jasiński, Dorothy Taubman, Jacob Lateiner and Yoheved Kaplinsky. He is on the Alumni Committee of Aspen Music Festival and School and is a Yamaha Artist.