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Marc-André Hamelin
12+ albums
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Marc-André Hamelin, OC, CQ, (born 5th September 1961) is a French-Canadian classical pianist and composer. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Hamelin began his piano studies at the age of five, and was nine years old when he won the top prize in a Canadian music competition. His father, a pharmacist by trade who was also a keen pianist, introduced him to the works of Alkan, Godowsky, and Sorabji when he was still very young. His principal teachers were Yvonne Hubert, Harvey Wedeen, and Russell Sherman; he studied at the Ecole Vincent d'Indy in Montréal and then at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has made recordings of a wide variety of composers with the Hyperion label. His recording of the complete Godowsky Studies on Chopin's Études won the 2000 Gramophone Instrumental Award. He is well known for his attention to lesser-known composers especially of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century (Leo Ornstein, Nikolai Roslavets, Georgy Catoire, Charles Ives), and for performing difficult works by pianist-composers such as Leopold Godowsky, Charles-Valentin Alkan, and Kaikhosru Sorabji. Hamelin is also the composer of several works, including a projected set of twelve piano études in minor keys, of which nine are completed. The twelfth in the cycle, a Prelude and Fugue, has been published by Doberman-Yppan, a cycle of seven pieces, called "Con Intimissimo Sentimento", was published (with a recording by Hamelin) by Ongaku No Tomo Sha, and a transcription of Zeq
top songs
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Etude in C sharp minor, Op. 2 No. 1
3,0362Studies after Chopin's Etudes nos. 7-9: 3rd version - Tarantella
2,9133On an Overgrown Path: III. Come with us!
2,5064On an Overgrown Path: II. A Blown-Away Leaf
2,0975On an Overgrown Path: VI. Words fail!
1,6276The Punch And Judy Show Op. 18/6 (Live)
9927Studies after Chopin's Etudes nos. 7-9: 2nd version - Study on the white keys
9708O Polichinello "Punch"
9449On an Overgrown Path: IX. In Tears
88210Six Pictures from The Devil in the Flesh: The Madwoman on the Roof
759albums
Schumann: Scenes from Childhood; Waldszenen – Janáček: On the Overgrown Path, Book 1
Rarities of Piano Music 2000 - Live Recordings from the Husum Festival
Charles: Ives: "Concord" Sonata/Maurice Wright: Sonata
Kaleidoscope – The Ultimate Virtuoso Encores for Piano
Marc-André Hamelin in a State of Jazz: Gulda, Kapustin, Weissenberg & Charles Trenet
The Devil in the Flesh
Hamelin: New Piano Works
Found Objects / Sound Objects
Fauré: Nocturnes & Barcarolles
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Rarities of Piano Music 2002: Live Recordings from the Husum Festival
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Almanach 1997: Live Recordings (Edition Ruhr Piano Festival Vol. 1 - 8)
Bolcom: 12 New Etudes/Wolpe: Battle Piece