Biographical Info

Jarred Dunn won first prize and concerto award at the 7th Lithuanian International Chopin Competition (Vilnius), is a prize winner of the 1st Jan Hoffman International Competition (Kraków), and won piano and chamber music prizes at the D. Vitti, Verona Zinetti, and Rome Premio International Competitions. Critics call him “a piano sound-colour magician” (Muzikos Barai), “technically perfect” (Belarus First Radio), also noting, “Mr. Dunn plays in a relaxed style…Like a good organist, he easily maintains a sustained legato. His pedalling in this performance was exquisite — so unobtrusive as to be almost invisible” (Ludwig van Toronto). He is a Yamaha Artist on the CBC’s Top Thirty Under Thirty list. His critically-acclaimed discography is heard on CBC/Radio-Canada, New Classical 96.3FM, WWFM, WQXR, Belarus First Radio, 98.7 WVMO, and Madison Radio/TV.

Fanfare hails Chopin’s Diary: The Mazurkas, “Some of the best Chopin I’ve heard since Rubinstein…Ever-present in Dunn’s readings is the characteristic emphasis on the second beats of the bars, but the accenting is more agogic than percussive. The “stamping of the feet” that the dictionary definition of a mazurka tells us is here tamed by Dunn into something more formal, cultured, and refined.”

For Brahms in Solitude, Mr. Dunn is described in Piano Professional and LaScena as, “A Brahms natural… interpretations are timeless and still, but never halt the music’s natural momentum. 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.”

Mr. Dunn performs at Yamaha Performance Centre, Warsaw Chopin Museum, NOSPR Katowice, Dvorana Hall, Isabel Bader Centre, Owen Arts Center, Opera Bordeaux, Château Cheval Blanc, Chapelle Musique du Bon-Pasteur, Canadian Music Centre, Klavierhaus Göttingen, Vilnius Town Hall, NYC Klavierhaus, Partridge Hall at FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, Cecilia Concerts Halifax, Vancouver Valley Concerts, and the Ocean Chopin Festival of New York. In his repertoire are over forty concerti from JS Bach to HM Górecki, he has performed with numerous orchestras in North America and Europe. As a chamber musician he has collaborated with ATMA Quartet, pianists Anna Górecka and Maria João-Pires, cellist Marc Jaermann, and violinist Anna Kuk as Duo Mirage. He is a Yamaha Artist.

Mr. Dunn gives lectures and master classes at The Juilliard School, Mannes College, Oberlin College-Conservatory, SMU Meadows, Bydgoszcz Academy, Katowice Academy, Royal College of Music, and pre-colleges universities in North America, Europe, and Australia. Tonebase Piano calls him a “revered pedagogue,” featuring him in productions, live streaming lectures, seminars, workshops, and summer programs. He teaches at Semaine International Piano et Musique de Chambre (Switzerland), Kallmünz Summer Piano Festival (Germany), Chetham’s International Summer School (UK), Talent Music Master Courses (Italy), Tonebase Summer Piano Festival (USA) and others. He is active as a juror for national and international competitions. He hosts Competition StudioTV at the Paderewski International Competition (Bydgoszcz). He is on the Alumni Committee of the Aspen Music Festival and School.

A published scholar, he has presented papers and seminars at CFMTA National, NCKP, Carleton University, University of Toronto, and University of Ottawa research conferences. His essays and articles are published in Piano Magazine, Canadian Music Teacher (CFMTA), and CMEA Journal. In 2025, his book Górecki’s Solo Piano Music was published by Bloomsbury Press (Rowman and Littlefield). While still completing his Doctorate at McGill University, he was invited to its faculty. He is a recipient of numerous grants, distinctions and fellowships from the Canada Arts Council, Fonds de Recherche du Québec FRQSC, CFMTA, and McGill Doctoral Fellows program for his artistic, academic, and pedagogical achievements. He studied with Andrei Gavrilov, Maria João-Pires, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, Anna Górecka, Andrzej Jasiński, Dorothy Taubman, Jacob Lateiner and Yoheved Kaplinsky.