Kornel Wolak

Concert clarinetist, clinician, researcher, author and producer. Highly acclaimed for his musical imagination and astonishing versatility. “Control, and a smooth, elegant expressivity… are what make Wolak shine.” (John Terauds, the Toronto Star) Regularly appears in recitals as soloist with American and European orchestras as well as chamber musician. A double “Fryderyk” nominee, Poland’s highest recording award, he is a regular fixture on the CBC, Classical 96.3 FM, Public Radio International, and in the US, NPR.

Regularly gives master classes and lectures in Europe, Asia and both Americas. His newly published books on clarinet pedagogy have become a bestseller world-wide among the woodwind community. He is also a member of highly acclaimed Canadian Clarinet-Accordion Duo “Bridge&Wolak” with whom he tours, records and produces various projects extensively. In recent years, he is actively involved in research on the role of oral articulators in clarinet playing at Speech-Language Pathology Department at University of Toronto. Results of the studies have been presented at Clarinet Fest 2017 as well as at the 7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Groningen, the Netherlands as well as at the Music and Health Research Collaboratory at the University of Toronto.

He is the founder of Music Mind Inc., an initiative that promotes music education through research and understanding. Since 2018 Dr. Wolak is an Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Queen’s University (Canada)