{"id":46187,"date":"2026-09-02T09:09:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/?post_type=cmim-jury&p=46187"},"modified":"2026-09-02T16:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:51:24","slug":"charles-richard-hamelin-2","status":"publish","type":"cmim-jury","link":"https:\/\/www.concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/jury\/charles-richard-hamelin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Richard-Hamelin"},"content":{"rendered":"HOME - CONCOURS 2027<\/span><\/a>\n

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Silver medalist and winner of the Krystian Zimerman Prize at the 2015 International Chopin Piano Competition and laureate of the Concours musical international de Montr\u00e9al in 2014, Charles Richard-Hamelin<\/strong> has emerged as one of the most important pianists of his generation. Named a Compagnon of the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec and recipient of the prestigious Career Development Award conferred by the Women\u2019s Musical Club of Toronto, he was awarded the Prix Denise-Pelletier in November 2022, becoming its youngest recipient in the history of the Prix du Qu\u00e9bec.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has been invited to many major festivals such as La Roque d\u2019Anth\u00e9ron and the Nohant Festival in France, the Prague Spring Festival, the Chopin and his Europe Festival in Warsaw, the Festival de Lanaudi\u00e8re and the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest. As a soloist, he has performed with many ensembles including the major Canadian symphony orchestras (Montr\u00e9al, Toronto, Ottawa, Qu\u00e9bec, Edmonton, Calgary, as well as the Orchestre M\u00e9tropolitain, I Musici and Les Violons du Roy), the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Korean Symphony Orchestra, and OFUNAM (Mexico).<\/span><\/p>\n

He has worked with such renowned conductors as Kent Nagano, Rafael Payare, Bernard Labadie, Antoni Wit, Vasily Petrenko, Jacek Kaspszyk, Aziz Shokhakimov, Peter Oundjian, Jacques Lacombe, Fabien Gabel, Carlo Rizzi, John Storg\u00e5rds, Alexander Prior, Giancarlo Guerrero, Christoph Campestrini, Lan Shui, Otto Tausk, Jean-Marie Zeitouni, Kazuki Yamada, Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin and Jonathan Cohen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Charles Richard-Hamelin is also active as a chamber musician. He has performed with Ema Nikolovska, Andrew Wan, James Ehnes, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Marc-Andr\u00e9 Hamelin, the Dover Quartet, the New Orford String Quartet, the Apollon Musag\u00e8te Quartet and the Meccore Quartet, among others. A graduate of the Schulich School of Music of McGill University, the Yale School of Music and the Conservatoire de musique de Montr\u00e9al, he studied with Paul Surdulescu, Sara Laimon, Boris Berman, Andr\u00e9 Laplante and Jean Saulnier.<\/span><\/p>\n

Charles Richard-Hamelin has recorded thirteen albums, all released on the Analekta label (Outhere Music). Five of these are dedicated primarily to the solo piano works of Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin; there are also five recordings with Andrew Wan, concertmaster of the Orchestre symphonique de Montr\u00e9al (OSM). He has also recorded both Chopin piano concertos with the OSM conducted by Kent Nagano, and Mozart\u2019s Piano Concertos Nos. 20 and 23, 22 and 24 with Les Violons du Roy conducted by Jonathan Cohen. In his most recent solo album ECHOS (Analekta\/Outhere Music, 2025), he continues his exploration of the works of Chopin, combining them with rare Spanish works composed by Alb\u00e9niz and Granados. Six F\u00e9lix Awards (ADISQ) and one JUNO Award in 2022 saluted the quality of these albums, which have received widespread critical acclaim worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n

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