Biographical Info

Canadian Pianist Jarred Dunn is described by critics as a “piano sound-colour magician” (Muzikos Barai), “evocative and mystical” (New York Classical Guide), “a virtuoso with the most exquisite touch” (Freethought Today), and “technically perfect” (Belarus Radio). He is heard on CBC/Radio-Canada, New Classical 96.3FM, WWFM, WQXR NYC, Belarus Radio, 98.7 WVMO, and PianoPod. He is a CBC Top Thirty Under Thirty artist (2018) and is featured on CBC’s In Concert, This is My Music, Toute une musique, and Five Things I Learned From Maria João-Pires.

He won first prize and concerto award at the Lithuanian International Chopin Competition and is a prize winner of the Jan Hoffman, D. Vitti, Verona Zinetti, and Rome Premio International Competitions. He is a Yamaha Artist and Tonebase Artist. He records for Lexicon Classics and ATMA Classique. Most recently, Górecki’s World of the Piano (ATMA) is hailed “an important album of the highest artistic stature” (PanM 360) containing Górecki’s complete piano solo and duo works, the latter recorded with Anna Górecka. Fanfare calls Chopin’s Diary: The Mazurkas, “some of the best Chopin since Rubinstein.” Piano Professional remarked on Brahms in Solitude that, “like Radu Lupu, Mr. Dunn is an innately ‘thinking’ pianist who knows how to place every note…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, Chapelle Musique du Bon-Pasteur, Canadian Music Centre, Klavierhaus Göttingen, Vilnius Town Hall, NYC Klavierhaus, Cecilia Concerts Halifax, Vancouver Valley Concerts, and Chopin Festival of New York. In his repertoire are over forty concerti from JS Bach to HM Górecki; he has performed with orchestras in North America and Europe. As a chamber musician he has collaborated with ATMA Quartet, pianists Anna Górecka and Maria João-Pires, cellists Marc Jaermann and Jessica Korotkin, and violinist Anna Kuk.

He gives lectures and master classes at The Juilliard School, Peabody Conservatory Pre-College, Mannes College Prep Division, Oberlin College-Conservatory, SMU Meadows, Guildhall School, Royal College of Music, Bydgoszcz Academy, Katowice Academy, and many others. In the summers he teaches at Semaine International Piano et Musique de Chambre (CH), Chetham’s International Piano Summer School (UK), Brescia Talent Master Courses (IT), and Tonebase Summer Piano (USA). He is co-Artistic Director of Kallmünz Summer Piano Festival (DE). He is author of Górecki’s Solo Piano Music (Bloomsbury) and articles in CMEA, Clavier Companion/Piano Magazine, and Canadian Music Teacher journals.

He regularly serves as a juror for national and international competitions. He is on the Alumni Committee of Aspen Music Festival. He has received many distinctions for his artistic, scholarly, and pedagogical achievements. While completing his Doctorate at McGill University on a McGill Doctoral Fellowship and FRQ Research Grant, 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.