Livestreaming Story Featured in the Los Angeles Times
Daniel’s livestreaming story was recently featured in the Los Angeles Times.
Livestreaming – A Case Study
By Daniel Vnukowski “The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience,” wrote Marshall McLuhan in 1951. A tiny strand of RNA has completely altered...
Seven Steps To Dramatically Improve Your Livestreams
A reprint of an article published in the Sept/Oct Issue of Canadian Musician Magazine. “What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word, and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down,” says George in Frank Capra’s bittersweet comedy. Yes, It’s a...
RIP Leon Fleisher
May you rest in peace, Leon Fleisher! Leon was one of my most influential teachers who helped shape my understanding of music as I know it today. Anyone who had the privilege of working with him, was immediately taken on an inquisitive quest from day one – a...
A Stroke of Genius
Daniel’s improv session in the style of Beethoven featured on Classical FM with 55,000 FB shares.
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Gershwin Reaches One Million Hits
Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue reaches 1 million hits and over 500,000 views on Facebook.
Free Livestreamed Concerts
Enjoy a series of free live-streamed recitals with Daniel Vnukowski. Help support this project!
10 Commandments for Professional Pianists
If you were to ask me about my strongest childhood memories, two things immediately come to mind: the piano and my school lunchbox with a blue penguin painted on its cover. All I can remember about the lunchbox was that it accompanied me everywhere I went and was made of tough tin metal, as were most lunchboxes back in the day.
Sold-out Carnegie Hall Recital
Read about Daniel Vnukowski’s sold-out Carnegie Hall debut recital including reviews.
Rachmaninoff's Elegie Op. 3 (opening)
A brief history of this work:
This was one of the first works Rachmaninoff had performed in his public debut as a concert pianist in 1862, soon after graduating from the Moscow Conservatory. For this concert, he was earned a total of 50 rubles, or about 65 cents in today's money!
Elegie is of a funereal character and very much an extension of Chopin's style of piano writing, with an arpeggiated bass and bel canto treble line. However, it consistently makes wider use of the keyboard in the bass register and is darker in character, while exploring a unique harmonic relationship based on the tritone between E-flat7 and A7 in the climax.
