Alain Lefèvre

Biography

Virtuoso whose international career of concert performer leads it on the prestigious scenes to the four corners of the world, with the symphonic full orchestras and chiefs of reputation, the pianist montréalais Alain Lefèvre is also an immense success as type-setter and his last CD, " Faithful Insomnies" a Felix with the ADISQ in 2006 gained. Member elect of 4 other Felix in the category of the " Better Traditional Album of Année" , its recent CD " Rhapsodies" , first world romantic Rhapsody of Andre Mathieu includes/understands, devoted by the BBC Music Magazine. One must in Alain Lefèvre have also made revive with brilliance the Concerto of Quebec of regretted and forgotten André Mathieu, thus giving again his noble letters to him and conferring from now on his place impossible to circumvent to him within the romantic repertory of the Canadian music.

Resulting from a family of musicians, Alain Lefèvre begins the piano at the four years age in France, to continue it in Quebec where he immigrates very young person. Raise Sisters of the Congregation Notre-Dame, it quickly points out itself, giving its first recital to six years and gaining with the passing of years, the First Price of the Contest of Music of Canada, with nine recoveries. It will turn over to France to the Higher National Academy of Music of Paris in the class of famous Pierre Sancan who will see in him one of his “more brilliant disciples”. At the end of its studies, it will gain the 1st Price of piano and chamber music.

He was soloist invited inter alia, of Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, of Clouded Philharmonic, of Guangzhou Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic de Kuala Lumpur, the SWR of Stuttgart, the Symphony orchestra of Hamburg, the Symphony orchestra of Nuremberg, the Symphony Strait, the Symphony National in Washington, Houston Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Tucson Symphony and Length Beach Symphony in the United States, of the Symphony orchestra of Montreal, Toronto Symphony, the Philharmonic society of Lorraine, the National Symphony orchestra of Mexico City, the Philharmonic orchestra of Buenos Aires, and the Virtuosos of Moscow. He collaborated in particular with Kent Nagano, Christoph Eschenbach, Lawrence Foster, Long Yu, Vladimir Spivakov, Charles Dutoit, Bernhard Klee, Franz-Paul Decker, Matthias Bamert, Yan Pascal Tortelier and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Sunday morning, it animates an emission of classical music on the waves of Space Music in Radio-Canada, which is diffused on line also on the site of Radio-Canada.

Distinctions

First Price of the Contest of piano Heintzman (1971).
First Price with nine resumptions of the Contest of Music of Canada.
Grand Prix of the International Contest Alfred Cortot in Milan (1980).
Member elect of Mildred Dixon Holmes Award “Artist of the Year” (1982).
Proclamation on July 22nd, 1996 of the “Alain Lefèvre Day” by the Mayor of Santa Anna, California, for its exceptional artistic implication near this community.
Honore in 1999, by the National Academy of Athens, for its extraordinary musical contribution near the pupils of the Academy
Dedication “Télérama Event” (France): CD of the Transcriptions of Liszt (2003).
Gaining into 2004 of a “Classical Internet Award” decreed by the Classicstoday.com site, in the category “Outstanding Discoveries” for its CD Concertos.
Gaining of five Felix trophies decreed by ADISQ between 2001 and 2007, in the categories “Album of the Traditional Year, Orchestrates and great unit”, “Album of the Traditional Year Soloist and small unit” and “Instrumental Album of the Year”.

Discography

Corigliano

Concerto for piano (International KOCH Classics), 1994, KIC-3-7250-2 H1 Alain Lefèvre, Carl St-Clearly, Pacific Symphony Orchestrated

Fandango

Alain Lefèvre (International KOCH Classics), 1996, KIC-CD-7389 Branch, Scarlatti, Soler (piano)

Ballades

Alain Lefèvre (International KOCH Classics), 1996, KIC-3-7411-2 Brahms, Chopin (piano)

the Secrecy

Alain Lefèvre, Gino Quilico (International KOCH Classics), 1997, KIC-CD-7412 Duparc, Fauré, Hahn, Payette (piano, baritone)

Poetic Confidences

Alain Lefèvre (International KOCH Classics), 1998, KIC-3-7434-2H1 Alain Payette

The Swoon Collection III

Compilation: Alain Lefèvre, Gino Quilico (ABC Classics), 1998, ABC 465.086-2 Hahn and others (piano, voice, choruses and others)

Cadenza

Alain Lefèvre (CBC Records), 1999, MVCD 1129 Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, Satie, Schubert (piano)

Lylatov

Alain Lefèvre (Audiogram), 1999, ADCD 10131 Champagne, Ginastera, Lefèvre, Mathieu, Rodgers & Binder, Sancan, Satie (piano)

Notebook

Alain Lefèvre (Audiogram), 2002, ADCD 10156 12 original parts, Alain Lefèvre (piano)

Mozart

Concerto for piano, No 23, K. 488, (CBC Records) 1999, Republication, 2002, SMCD 5220 Alain Lefèvre, Jean-François Rivest, Symphony orchestra of Laval

Rachmaninov & Moussorgsky

Alain Lefèvre (Analekta), 2001, FL 2 3122 Musical moments, Tables of an Exposure (piano)

Liszt : Transcriptions works of Bach and Wagner

Alain Lefèvre (Analekta), 2002, FL 2 3179 (piano)

Concertos: Gershwin, Addinsell, Mathieu

(Analekta), 2003, YEAR 2 9814 Alain Lefèvre, Yoav Talmi, Symphony orchestra of Quebec

Homage to Mathieu

Andre Mathieu (type-setter) Alain Lefèvre (Analekta), 2005, YEAR 2 9275 (piano)

Faithful Insomnia

Alain Lefèvre (Analekta), 2006, original parts by Alain Lefèvre, AN29276 11 original Parts, Alain Lefèvre (piano)

Rhapsodies: Mathieu, Rachmaninov, Gershwin

(Analekta), 2006, YEAR 9277 Alain Lefèvre, Matthias Bamert, Symphony orchestra of Montreal

Quotation

“It is while composing that I could give the light one to all my anguishes, my joys, my sorrows, my disappointments, my waitings, my happinesses and my disillusions. Prisoners, my emotions could find a breath new. ”

External bonds

Official site
Biography of Alain Lefèvre on audiogram.com

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