Photo credit: Frank Desgagnés 2018
BIO
Canadian pianist Jeanne Amièle is regularly featured in solo recitals and chamber music concerts in Quebec. She has been invited to play as a soloist with several Canadian orchestras, including the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra under maestro Alexander Prior, the Montreal I Musici Chamber Orchestra under maestro Jean-Marie Zeitouni, and the Trois-Rivières Symphony Orchestra under maestro Jacques Lacombe.
Jeanne Amièle has distinguished herself at several national competitions in past years. She was awarded the Grand Prize in the Canadian Music Competition in 2015, the 1st Prize in the Shean Piano Competition in 2016, and the 2nd Prize (Pierre-Mantha Prize) along with the John-Newmark Prize in the 2018 Prix d’Europe Competition. In 2017 she participated in the recording of the disc “Sonatas & Nocturnes – 19th Century Gems for Bassoon and Piano” under the label MSR Classics in collaboration with Michel Bettez, first bassoonist of the Orchestre Métropolitain. The recording was praised by the critics, and the prestigious magazine Gramophone wrote that the pianist played “with full-blooded richness and poetry”.
Jeanne Amièle is a Doctor of Music. She trained with pianist and Professor Jean Saulnier at the University of Montreal, where she received a scholarship from the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarships Program for her doctoral studies and research on memorization at the piano. She also studied at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva, Switzerland with Professor Dominique Weber on an international exchange program. In 2019, she was been appointed as a sessional lecturer of Piano Performance at the University of Montreal Faculty of Music, and as of September 2021, she will be a Professor of Piano at the Conservatoire de musique de Trois-Rivières.