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Musique Royale announces a performance of pianist Jean-Luc Therrien on Saturday April 30 at 7:30 pm, at Lunenburg’s Central United Church. Hot off of his two-month concert tour in Europe, we look forward to hearing Quebec-born pianist Jean-Luc Therrien on the south shore and his Lunenburg performance is parter of a larger tour of the maritimes with Debut Atlantic. With a program that explores Canadian composers alongside Debussy, Liszt, and Prokofiev, Therrien’s virtuosic playing is certain to ring clearly in Central United’s generous acoustic. Named one of Canada’s 30 hot classical musicians under 30 for 2020 by CBC Music, Therrien was also recently selected for competitive The Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Performance Residency Program at The Glenn Gould School in Toronto.

About Jean-Luc Therrien

Named one of Canada’s 30 hot classical musicians under 30 for 2020 by CBC Music, Quebec born pianist Jean-Luc Therrien was also recently selected for The Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Performance Residency Program at The Glenn Gould School in Toronto. A prolific performer, he has toured across Quebec and the Maritimes as part of the Jeunesses Musicales Canada’s Emerging Artists Concerts series, and in 2016, he made his orchestral debut in Japan with the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, performing Beethoven’s fourth piano concerto. In 2022, he will be performing as soloist with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra in Toronto, and giving recitals as part of the Portland Piano International’s Rising Stars series (USA).

As a chamber musician, Jean-Luc has collaborated with several ensembles and musicians including the Quatuor Claudel-Canimex, Mai Tategami and Zlatomir Fung. In 2017, he formed the Duo J², with French violinist Jean-Samuel Bez, with whom he toured in Eastern Canada and Europe. Together, they also won the Chamber Music Grand Prize at the Luigi Zanuccoli International Competition in Italy. After recording their first album in 2021, they will be touring around Europe again in March 2022.

Over the years, Jean-Luc has also stood out in many competitions such as the Orford Music Award Contest, the Glenn Gould School Concerto Competition (winner), the Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize International Piano Competition in Italy (3rd prize and audience prize) and the CMC Stepping Stone (3rd prize), as well as being selected for the prestigious Honens International Piano Competition which will be held in 2022. He was also awarded several prizes like the Wilfrid-Pelletier Scholarship, the Governor General of Canada’s Academic Medal and a grant from the Canadian Council for the Arts for pursuing musical projects in Europe.

Jean-Luc is a graduate of the Conservatoire de Musique de Trois-Rivières (Québec), the University Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), the University of Toronto and the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto). His main professors have included Denise Trudel, Cordelia Höfer-Teutsch, George Kern and Marietta Orlov. He has also played in many masterclasses with renowned pianists such as Leon Fleisher, András Schiff, Jacques Rouvier or Robert McDonald