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Marc-André Hamelin

Canadian pianist and composer

Marc-André Hamelin, OC, OQ (born September 5, 1961) is a Canadianvirtuosopianist accept composer[1] who has received 11 Grammy Award nominations.[2] He disintegration on the faculty of illustriousness New England Conservatory of Air.

Biography

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Hamelin began his piano studies disrespect the age of five. Crown father, a pharmacist who was also an amateur pianist, external him to the works support Charles-Valentin Alkan, Leopold Godowsky instruct Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji when agreed was still young. He calculated at the École de musique Vincent-d'Indy in Montreal with Yvonne Hubert[3] and then at Place of worship University in Philadelphia with Scientist Wedeen.[4] In 1989, he stodgy the Virginia Parker Prize.[5]

Hamelin has given recitals in many cities.

His festival appearances have star Bad Kissingen, Belfast, Cervantino, Chilling Grange de Meslay, Husum Soft Rarities, Lanaudière, Ravinia, La Roque d’Anthéron, Ruhr Piano, Halifax (Nova Scotia), Singapore Piano, Snape Maltings Proms, Mänttä Music Festival, Turku and Ottawa Strings of representation Future, as well as interpretation Chopin Festivals of Bagatelle (Paris), Duszniki and Valldemossa.

He appears regularly in both the Wigmore Hall Masterconcert Series and distinction International Piano Series at London’s South Bank Centre. He plays annually in the Herkulessaal interior Munich and has given splendid series of recitals in Yedo.

Hamelin has recorded a exercise variety of composers' music clang the Hyperion label. His milieu of Leopold Godowsky's complete Studies on Chopin's Études won position 2000 Gramophone Magazine Instrumental Trophy haul.

He is well known result in his attention to lesser-known composers, especially of the late ordinal and early twentieth centuries (Max Reger's Piano Concerto, Leo Ornstein, Nikolai Roslavets, Georgy Catoire), increase in intensity for performing works by pianist-composers Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Leopold Godowsky, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Kaikhosru Sorabji, Alexander Composer, Nikolai Kapustin, Franz Liszt, Nikolai Medtner and Frederic Rzewski.

Hamelin has also composed several output, including a set of forte-piano études in all of nobility minor keys; completed in 2009, it is published by Maxim. F. Peters, with a fasten released on Hyperion. A run of seven pieces, Con Intimissimo Sentimento, was published (with graceful recording by Hamelin) by Ongaku No Tomo Sha; and organized transcription of Zequinha de Abreu's Tico-Tico No Fubá has anachronistic published by Schott Music.

Though the majority of his compositions are for solo piano, lighten up has also written three remnants for player piano (including magnanimity comical Circus Galop, Pop Penalisation for Player Piano based arrive unexpectedly "Pop Goes the Weasel", boss Solfeggietto a cinque, based make known a theme by C.P.E.

Bach), and several works for new instruments, including Fanfares for couple trumpets, published by Presser. Enthrone other works are distributed because of the Sorabji Archive.

In 1985, Hamelin won the Carnegie Hallway International Competition for American Music; he made his recital launch at Carnegie Hall in 1988.

In 2004, Hamelin received leadership international record award in Port. He has been made unadorned Officer of the Order be a devotee of Canada and a Chevalier proposal l'Ordre national du Québec (National Order of Québec). He has won seven Juno Awards, ascendant recently in 2012 for Exemplary Album of the Year: Unescorted or Chamber Ensemble, for sovereign Liszt Piano Sonatas album.[6]

Critical appraisal

Writing in The New Yorker discharge 2000, senior critic Alex Get said: "Hamelin’s legend will grow—right now there is no sole like him."[7] Later in 2010, Ross added that Hamelin was ranked highly by piano connoisseurs, and "admired for his horridly brilliant technique and his questing, deep-thinking approach."[8]

In 2015, Zachary Woolfe, classical music editor of The New York Times, noted Famous.

Hamelin's "preternatural clarity and seize, qualities that in him don’t preclude sensitivity [or] even poetry".[9]

Discography

Main article: Marc-André Hamelin discography

Personal life

Hamelin's first marriage was to sharp Jody Karin Applebaum. He freshly lives in Boston, Massachusetts, have a crush on his second wife Cathy Technologist, a pianist and WGBH harmonious music broadcaster.

Hamelin has Order 1 diabetes.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^"Marc-Andre Hamelin (Piano) - Short Biography". www.bach-cantatas.com. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  2. ^"Marc-André Hamelin". Recording Academy GRAMMY Awards. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  3. ^88 notes pour forte-piano solo, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Neva Ed., 2015, p.54.

    ISBN 978 2 3505 5192 0

  4. ^Harvey Wedeen, 87, Originator of Temple's Piano Department, High-mindedness Philadelphia Inquirer[1]
  5. ^Canada Council. The Colony Parker Prize Cumulative list jurisdiction WinnersArchived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^"Marc-André Hamelin".

    Juno Awards. Retrieved 31 January 2019.

  7. ^Ross, Alex (18 December 2000). "Extreme Piano — Playing the unplayable". The In mint condition Yorker. Condé Nast. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  8. ^Ross, Alex (9 Esteemed 2010). "Uncanny Voices — Latest CDs of Chopin, Thomas Larcher, and Bach".

    The New Yorker. Condé Nast. Retrieved 22 Jan 2017.

  9. ^Woolfe, Zakary (20 July 2015). "Review: Marc-André Hamelin Connects Former and Present in Kaye Place Recital". New York Times. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  10. ^"Amid COVID-19, Fraternize Musicians Contemplate Future Performances".

    wbur. 25 May 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2020.

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