Hamelin: New Works was named “5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now” by The New York Times.
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All of Marc’s albums are available on all streaming platforms!
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Marc is proud to announce the launch of a new technique course with tonebase Piano, where he demonstrates special warm-up patterns and practice devices he has adapted and developed from lesser-known piano manuals written by great pianists and composers of the past.
The first lesson on Symmetrical Inversion is free to watch here. Learn more and sign up for the complete course here.
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Delve into Marc’s marvelous, curious mind with this Tiny Desk concert.
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Marc-André Hamelin is thrilled to announce his next Hyperion Records release - a double-disc featuring the extraordinary rags of American composer and pianist, Dr. William Bolcom. Pre-orders available now.
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The New York Times has featured Marc-André Hamelin’s new album of C.P.E. Bach’s work and an interview with him!
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Marc-André Hamelin has been appointed to join the piano faculty of the New England Conservatory for the 2021-2022 year! Provost and Dean of Faculty Benjamin Sosland says of Marc and his fellow appointee Jonathan Bliss that “it is an exceptional honour to welcome them to our community, where they will inspire our students and build on NEC's legacy of pianistic excellence."
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Watch the exciting world premiére of Marc-André Hamelin’s newest (and so far longest) piano piece, commissioned and played by 2008 Gilmore Young Artist Rachel Naomi Kudo on February 21 at 4PM EST.
The performance of Suite à l'ancienne (Suite in the old style) is available here through March 23, 2021.
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Congratulations to Marc-André Hamelin who has been nominated for not just one, but two Gramophone Awards – for his Dohnányi piano quintet album with Takács Quartet and his album of Samuil Feinberg’s piano sonatas 1-6.
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Today, Marc-André Hamelin releases Liszt & Thalberg: Opera Transcriptions & Fantasies, Hyperion’s Record of the Month.
If, as Liszt himself dubbed it, Hexaméron is ‘a monster’, it’s a monster which certainly holds no terrors for Marc-André Hamelin, and the encounter between them makes for some thrilling pianism. The remainder of the recital—high-octane transformations of nineteenth-century operatic favourites—is every bit as electrifying, from a musician who never ceases to astonish whatever the repertoire.
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Congratulations to Marc for his latest album of Samuil Feinberg’s first six piano sonatas being selected as an editor’s choice for April 2020!
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Marc’s latest album of solo piano works, Feinberg’s Piano Sonatas, has been selected as Album of the Month by International Piano. Bryce Morrison of their Critic’s Choice states, “This is a major addition to Hamelin’s unique discography . . . Few pianists would or could embrace such repertoire.”
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Marc's new album (Feinberg's Piano Sonatas 1-6) is being released by Hyperion on February 28.
One phenomenal composer-pianist’s homage to another. The music of Samuil Feinberg is championed by Hamelin, whose performances are sensitive to all its shadows and anxieties while being - of course - fully equal to the prodigious technical demands.
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This month, Marc’s latest album with the celebrated Takács Quartet has been chosen as the chamber album of the month for BBC Music Magazine's Christmas issue. According to BBC Music Magazine’s Freya Parr, it is “a treasurable disc.”
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Marc’s latest album with the Takács Quartet, just released today, is Hyperion’s recording of the month. It includes both piano quintets by Ernő Dohnányi alongside his second string quartet, marking an important milestone in the critical re-evaluation of the composer’s works. While possessing an undeniable Brahmsian influence, Dohnányi’s works exude the composer’s own exuberant and distinctive voice. Watch a trailer here. The album is available on Amazon and Apple Music.
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This month Marc returns to Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium on October 22nd as part of of Carnegie’s Great Artist series. Shortly after, Marc’s new album of piano quintets by Ernõ Dohnányi with Takács Quartet will be released on Nov. 1.
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Ken Iisaka from San Francisco Classical Voice raved about Marc-André Hamelin’s recital presented by the San Francisco Symphony on March 31, saying, “With San Francisco’s biggest concert stage all to himself, he made a case for being one of the greatest artists of today.”
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Congratulations again to Marc who was just nominated for his 16th Juno award in the category of “Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber” for his Schubert album. If he wins, it will be his eighth Juno award. Tune in to watch the Juno awards on March 17 on CBC Music.
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