Marc-André Hamelin

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Marc-André Hamelin
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Born (1961-09-05) September 5, 1961 (age 62)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Pianist and composer

Marc-André Hamelin,

Grammy Award nominations.[2] He is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music
.

Biography

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Hamelin began his piano studies at the age of five. His father, a pharmacist who was also an amateur pianist, introduced him to the works of Charles-Valentin Alkan, Leopold Godowsky and Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji when he was still young. He studied at the École de musique Vincent-d'Indy in Montreal with Yvonne Hubert[3] and then at Temple University in Philadelphia with Harvey Wedeen.[4] In 1989, he received the Virginia Parker Prize.[5]

Hamelin has given

Herkulessaal
in Munich and has given a series of recitals in Tokyo.

Hamelin has recorded a wide variety of composers' music with the

Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Leopold Godowsky, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Kaikhosru Sorabji, Alexander Scriabin, Nikolai Kapustin, Franz Liszt, Nikolai Medtner and Frederic Rzewski
.

Hamelin has also composed several works, including a set of piano études in all of the minor keys; completed in 2009, it is published by C. F. Peters, with a recording released on Hyperion. A cycle of seven pieces, Con Intimissimo Sentimento, was published (with a recording by Hamelin) by Ongaku No Tomo Sha; and a transcription of Zequinha de Abreu's Tico-Tico No Fubá has been published by Schott Music. Although the majority of his compositions are for solo piano, he has also written three pieces for player piano (including the comical Circus Galop, Pop Music for Player Piano based upon "Pop Goes the Weasel", and Solfeggietto a cinque, based on a theme by C.P.E. Bach), and several works for other instruments, including Fanfares for three trumpets, published by Presser. His other works are distributed by the Sorabji Archive.

In 1985, Hamelin won the

Juno Awards, most recently in 2012 for Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber Ensemble, for his Liszt Piano Sonatas album.[6]

Critical appraisal

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

In 2015, Zachary Woolfe, classical music editor of The New York Times, noted Mr. Hamelin's "preternatural clarity and control, 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 soprano Jody Karin Applebaum. He currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with his second wife Cathy Fuller, a pianist and WGBH classical music broadcaster. Hamelin has Type 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. ISBN 978 2 3505 5192 0
  4. ^ Harvey Wedeen, 87, Architect of Temple's Piano Department, The Philadelphia Inquirer [1]
  5. ^ Canada Council. The Virginia Parker Prize Cumulative list of Winners Archived 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 New Yorker. Condé Nast. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  8. ^ Ross, Alex (9 August 2010). "Uncanny Voices — New CDs of Chopin, Thomas Larcher, and Bach". The New Yorker. Condé Nast. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  9. ^ Woolfe, Zakary (20 July 2015). "Review: Marc-André Hamelin Connects Past and Present in Kaye Playhouse Recital". New York Times. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  10. ^ "Amid COVID-19, Touring Musicians Contemplate Future Performances". wbur. 25 May 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2020.

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