St茅phane Lemelin
Professor, Department Chair
Pianist St茅phane Lemelin is well-known to audiences throughout Canada and regularly tours 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-five recordings, which include works by Faur茅, Saint-Sa毛ns, Debussy, Poulenc and Roussel. 聽St茅phane Lemelin is director of the French music series 鈥淒茅couvertes 1890-1939鈥� on the 聽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, Rhen茅-B芒ton, Rosenthal, Alder, Lekeu and others.
St茅phane Lemelin studied with Yvonne Hubert in Montreal, Karl-Ulrich Schnabel in New York, and received both Bachelor鈥檚 and Master鈥檚 degrees from the Peabody Conservatory as a student of Leon Fleisher. 聽He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University, where his teachers were Boris Berman and Claude Frank. He taught at the University of Alberta for more than ten years and at University of Ottawa from 2001 to 2013. While there, he served as Director of the School of Music from 2007 to 2012. He has been appointed Professor of Piano and Chair of the Department of Performance at the Schulich School of Music of 海角社区 starting May 2014.聽 A dedicated pedagogue, he has been invited to give master classes around the world. 聽St茅phane 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.
