Stephane Lemelin
Biography Stephane Lemelin
Stéphane Lemelin
is well-known to audiences throughout Canada and regularly performs in the United States, Europe and Asia as soloist and chamber musician.
His repertory is vast, with a predilection for the German Classical and Romantic literature and a particular affinity for French music, as evidenced by his more than twenty recordings, which include works by Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Poulenc and Roussel. Moreover, Stéphane Lemelin is director of the French music series “Musique française 1890-1939 : Découvertes ” on the ATMA Classique label, dedicated to the rediscovery of neglected early twentieth-century French repertoire and for which he has recorded works by Samazeuilh, Ropartz, Migot, Dupont, Dubois, Rhené-Bâton, Rosenthal, Alder, Lekeu and others.
A prize-winner of the Robert Casadesus International Competition in Cleveland, he has received many national and international awards and grants, notably from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada.
Stéphane Lemelin studied with Yvonne Hubert in Montreal, Karl-Ulrich Schnabel in New York, and Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University, where he studied with Boris Berman and Claude Frank. He taught at the University of Alberta for more than ten years, and from 2001 to 2014 at the University of Ottawa, where he served as Director of the School of Music for five years. He has been appointed Professor of Piano and Chair of the Department of Performance at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montreal starting May 2014. A dedicated pedagogue, he has been invited to give master classes around the world. Stéphane Lemelin was a member of Trio Hochelaga from 2003 to 2012 and is the founder and Artistic Director of the Prince Edward County Music Festival.
