PROGRAM:
- Feinberg
- Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 1
- Sonata No. 4 in E-flat Minor, Op. 6
- Beethoven
- Sonata No. 23 in F Minor ("Appassionata"), Op. 57
- Schumann
- Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17
Marc-André Hamelin (Piano)
Born: September 5, 1961 - Montreal, Québec, Canada
The French-Canadian pianist and composer, Marc-André Hamelin, began his piano studies at the age of 5 and was 9 years old when he won the top prize in a Canadian music competition. His father, a pharmacist by trade who was also a keen pianist, introduced him to the works of Charles-Valentin Alkan, Leopold Godowsky and Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji when he was still very young. From the age of 9, he studied at the Ecole Vincent d'Indy in Montréal Yvonne Hubert and Sister Rita de la Croix, and then at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with Harvey D. Wedeen and Russell Sherman. A popular rumour is that he learned K.S. Sorabji's Opus Clavicembalisticum at the age of 17; in fact, although he did study this work at that time, he did not learn it completely. He was the page turner for Geoffrey Douglas Madge in a performance of this piece in Montréal in 1984.
In 1982 Marc-André Hamelin came first in the International Stepping Stones of the Canadian Music Competitions and won first prize at the International Piano Competition in Pretoria, South Africa. In 1985 he was awarded first prize at Carnegie Hall's International Competition of American Music, which entailed numerous engagements in the USA with well-known orchestras, an important series of recitals (including at Carnegie Hall), and a recording contract with New World Records.
Well established in both North America and Europe, Marc-André Hamelin has given recitals in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin, Birmingham, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Mexico City, Milan, Montreal, Moscow, New York, Ottawa, Paris, Philadelphia, Québec, San Juan Puerto Rico, De Doelen Rotterdam, Toronto, Vienna, Washington and Warsaw. Festival appearances have included Bad Kissingen, Belfast, Cervantino, La Grange de Meslay, Husum Piano Rarities, Lanaudière, Ravinia, La Roque d’Anthéron, Ruhr Piano, Scotia (Halifax), Singapore Piano, Snape Maltings Proms, Turku and Ottawa Strings of the Future, as well as the Chopin Festivals of Bagatelles (Paris), Duszniki and Valldemossa. Following the success of his 1994 Wigmore Hall series Virtuoso Romantics, Marc-André Hamelin appears regularly in both the Wigmore Hall Master-concert Series and the International Piano Series at London’s South Bank Centre. He plays annually in the Herkules-Saal in Munich and has given a series of six recitals in Tokyo entitled 200 Years of Pianism with Marc-André Hamelin. He performed at Lincoln Center in New York with the Manhattan Philharmonic Orchestra and the Riverside Symphony Orchestra, in Ottawa with the NACO, and with the symphony orchestras of several major centres including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Quebec City, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, and Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1987 he was a soloist with the MSO during its European tour. The Canada Council awarded him the Sylva Gelber Foundation Award in 1987 and the Virginia P. Moore Prize in 1989.
Marc-André Hamelin formed a duo with cellist Sophie Rolland in 1989; in 1991 they performed the complete works of Beethoven in Montreal, London, and New York. Hamelin also accompanied the soprano Karina Gauvin, and regularly performed a program of cabaret music with his wife, the US soprano Jody Karin Applebaum, which they also recorded.
Marc-André Hamelin Hamelin is internationally renowned for his effortless musical virtuosity and refined pianism - many regard him as the supreme technician of the instrument.
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