Pianist Marc-André Hamelin is celebrated worldwide for his virtuosity and profound artistry. He performs regularly with leading orchestras and conductors and appears in recital at prestigious venues and festivals across the globe.
The 2024–2025 season highlights Hamelin’s expansive musical range and international presence. In Asia, he performed recitals at the Beijing Concert Hall, Xi’an Concert Hall, Seoul Arts Center, and the Shanghai Symphony Hall. He also gave duo recitals with Charles Richard-Hamelin in Tokyo, Yokohama, and Fukuoka. European engagements include recitals in Warsaw, Copenhagen, Florence, Budapest, and London’s Wigmore Hall, along with appearances at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie and the Ruhr Piano Festival. Orchestral highlights feature performances with the RTVE Madrid, Bruckner Orchester Linz, and Prague Radio Symphony. In South America, he returned to the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 and will revisit later in the season to perform Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 and Rhapsody in Blue before touring with the orchestra to the Bogotá International Classical Music Festival.
In North America, Hamelin appears with the Cleveland Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, and the orchestras of Quebec, Toledo, Amarillo, and Edmonton, where he presents a complete Beethoven concerto cycle. Recital engagements include San Francisco Performances, Music Toronto, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Music Room at Caramoor. He also tours with the Dover Quartet, performing a program that features his own Piano Quintet.
An exclusive Hyperion Records artist, Hamelin has released 89 acclaimed albums, spanning solo, orchestral, and chamber works. Recent recordings include Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata and MixTape, featuring 20th-century repertoire. His 2024 album New Piano Works showcases nine original compositions.. His compositions, published by Edition Peters, include the recent Mazurka (commissioned by the Library of Congress – May 2024).
Born in Montreal, Hamelin resides near Boston with his wife, Cathy Fuller, a producer and host at Classical WCRB. His honors include seven Juno Awards, 12 Grammy nominations, and the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Québec, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada.
