Opening Night: Pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin

One of the most important pianists of his generation, pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin was the silver medalist and winner of the Krystian Zimerman Prize at the 2015 International Chopin Piano Competition. Recipient of the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec and of the prestigious Career Development Award conferred by the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto, he was awarded the Prix Denise-Pelletier in November 2022, becoming the youngest recipient in the history of the Prix du Québec. As a soloist, he has performed with every major Canadian symphony orchestra as well as the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Korean Symphony Orchestra, OFUNAM (Mexico), Les Violons du Roy and I Musici de Montréal. Charles Richard-Hamelin has recorded eleven albums on the Analekta label. Five of these are dedicated primarily to the solo piano works of Frédéric Chopin; there are also four recordings with Andrew Wan, concertmaster of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. He has also recorded both Chopin piano concertos with the OSM and Mozart’s Piano Concertos nos. 22 and 24 with Les Violons du Roy. Six Félix awards (ADISQ) and a JUNO in 2022 attest the quality of these albums, which have received widespread acclaim from critics around the world.

Debussy: Suite Bergamasque L.75
Ravel: Sonatine M.40
Poulenc: Suite Napoli FP.40
Chopin: Four scherzi