Stéphane Lemelin performs regularly across Canada, as well as in the United States, Europe and Asia. A frequent guest of major summer festivals, he has appeared as soloist with many of Canada’s principal orchestras, including the Montreal Symphony under Charles Dutoit. A sought-after chamber musician, he has collaborated with artists such as Peter Schreier, Donna Brown, James Campbell, and the Leipzig, Moscow, Muir, Vlach and St. Lawrence String Quartets. Mr. Lemelin’s concerts are frequently heard on CBC and his recordings have been broadcast internationally. A pianist with a broad repertoire ranging from the Classical period to the twentieth century and encompassing a wide spectrum from lieder to the Romantic concerto, his performances of Schubert, Schumann, Fauré and Ravel have garnered enthusiastic praise. He is a member of Trio Hochelaga, with violinist Anne Robert and cellist Paul Marleyn, with whom he tours internationally. He is also the artistic director of the Prince Edward County Music Festival, in Picton, Ontario.

Originally from Mont-Joli, Quebec, Stéphane Lemelin was born in 1960. He was a student of Yvonne Hubert at Montreal’s Ecole Vincent D’Indy, of Karl-Ulrich Schnabel in New York, Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and of Boris Berman and Claude Frank at Yale University, where he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree. On the faculty of the University of Alberta from 1990 to 2001, he is now Professor of Music at at the University of Ottawa, where he is the Director of the School of Music. A laureate of the Robert Casadesus International Competition, he has received several national and international awards, including grants from the Canada Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the government of Austria.