Jack Winerock

Professor of Piano
University of Kansas
School of Fine Arts,
Department of Music & Dance

Email: winerock@falcon.cc.ukans.edu

Jack Winerock, a native of NYC, received his undergraduate and masters degree at the Julliard School of Music and his doctorate from the University of Michigan. His teachers included Sascha Gorodnitzki, Gyorgy Sandor, and Leon Fleisher. Following his graduation from Michigan, he accepted an appointment at the University of Kansas.

In 1976, Winerock received Second Prize in the International Bach Competition. That year he made his orchestral debut with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In 1979 he made his New York debut at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. Since that time he has received yearly invitations to perform in Europe and South America as well as in the U.S. In 1986 he gave the first performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in the People's Republic of China and in 1988 performed for the first time in Japan. He has recorded the Sonatas of Alexander Reinagle (teacher of George Washington's children) for the Musical Heritage Society and the Concerto for Piano and Winds by Stravinsky for Golden Crest Records.

Winerock has received national and international acclaim as a teacher, clinician, and adjudicator. His students have won prizes in national and international competitions, including the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the MTNA, and the Johanna Hodges. His students hold important faculty positions both in the United States as well as in conservatories in Europe, South America, and Japan. In addition to his duties at the University of Kansas, he has served as Visiting Professor at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, the Herzliya Conservatory in Israel, and at Middlesex University in London, England.

Press Comments

• "His powerful hands and resourceful technique are directed by a long-sighted view that encompassed the whole work." (London Times)
• "A complete virtuoso and an intelligent." (Brussels Le Soir)
• "A polished, extraordinarily sensitive arstist" (Vienna Zeitung)
• "A performance of expressive refinement and rare delicacy." (New York Times)
• "Highly original, individual, and tremendously impressive." (The Washington Post)