Montreal-based, Brigitte Poulin is an active and accomplished soloist, chamber musician and teacher whose repertoire covers all periods. A proponent of 20th and 21st century music, Brigitte has commissioned and premiered more than fifty works for solo piano, prepared piano and various chamber ensembles.
Graduated from the Université de Montréal (DMus), the Vienna Music Academy and the Montreal music Conservatory, Brigitte has been several times artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
Brigitte counts among her faithful collaborators doublebassist Ali Yazdanfar and pianist Jean Marchand. She has also founded two contemporary chamber ensembles: Ensemble Transmission and Trio Phoenix.
Brigitte Poulin teaches as a part-time lecturer at The Schulich music School of McGill University. She is also accompanying at both McGill Schulich School of Music and Université de Montréal. She is regularly called upon to adjudicate for Arts Councils grant proposals as well as Music Festivals across Canada. She is as well a member of the Summer Academy of Orford Music. As well since September 2021, she is teaching piano at the École de musique de Verdun and the Villa Sainte-Marcelline.
Her most recent CD recordings include: Folklore imaginaire music by Ana Sokolović (Naxos), Pierrot lunaire (Atma), Transmission, and her own solo CD Édifices Naturels (Dame). Her performances can be heard on Naxos Records and YouTube.
Wilfrid Laurier University - Room M4031
75 University Ave. W.
Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:9:00 AM | Name:Joanne Yeh | Titles: Concerto No. 2 in F minor, op. 21, 1st mvt. by Frédéric Chopin | Home Festival:Unionville |
Time:9:20 AM | Name:Helen Kim | Titles: Concerto in A minor, op. 54, 1st mvt. by Robert Schumann | Home Festival:Peel |
Time:9:45 AM | Name:Zhou Fang | Titles: Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, op. 25, 1st mvt. by Felix Mendelssohn | Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis |
Time:10:00 AM | Name:Nancy Lin | Titles: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op. 37, 1st mvt. by Ludwig Van Beethoven | Home Festival:Ottawa Piano |
Time:10:20 AM | Name:Brian Lin | Titles: Concerto No.1 in C Major, op. 15, 1st mvt. by Ludwig van Beethoven | Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis |
Time:10:40 AM | Name:Sebastian Haddad | Titles: Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, op. 37, 1st mvt.: Allegro con brio by Ludwig van Beethoven | Home Festival:Windsor-Essex |
Time:11:00 AM | Name:Layla-Björt Jóhönnudóttir Taherzadeh | Titles: Concerto, op. 38, 2nd mvt. by Samuel Barber | Home Festival:Ottawa Piano |
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:11:15 AM | Name:Daniel Zhang | Titles: Burleske in D Minor, TrV 145 by Richard Strauss | Home Festival:Kitchener-Waterloo |
Time:11:40 AM | Name:Michelle Yeh | Titles: Concerto No. 2 in B flat Major, op. 19, 1st mvt. by Ludwig van Beethoven | Home Festival:Unionville |
Time:12:00 PM | Name:Withdrawn | Titles: | Home Festival: |
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:1:15 PM | Name:Steven Zhai | Titles: Concerto No. 5 in D Major, K 175, 2nd and 3rd mvts. by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Home Festival:Unionville |
Time:1:35 PM | Name:Angela Suet Kee Ng | Titles: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, op. 102, 1st and 2nd mvts. by Dmitri Shostakovich | Home Festival:CCC |
Time:1:55 PM | Name:Peixuan He | Titles: Concerto in C sharp Minor, FP. 146, 1st mvt. by Francis Poulenc | Home Festival:London |
Workshop will be held from approximately 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm.
Announcement of winners will happen at the end of the workshop.