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JIMMY BRIERE Piano |
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Jimmy Brière is recognized as one of the most brilliant Canadian pianist of his generation. Praised by the critic for his inspired performances, his career has taken him in all parts of Canada, in the USA as well as Europe. He has been heard, among others, with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, I Musici de Montréal, the Sherbrooke Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Francophonie canadienne, the Orchestre de l'Université de Montréal and the Orchestre Symphonique du Saguenay Lac St-Jean. Abroad, he has played with the Porto Orchestra Classica (Portugal), the Pleven Philharmonic and the Ruse Philharmonic in Bulgaria, the Indiana University Symphony Orchestra, and the South Bend Symphony Orchestra (USA) joining Alexander Toradze in Mozart's Concerto K. 242. He has collaborated among others with Yoav Talmi, Leon Fleisher, Jean-François Rivest, Tsung Yeh, Stéphane Laforest, Simon Streatfield, Yuli Turovsky, Paolo Bellomia, Jean-Philippe Tremblay, Marc David and Jacques Clément. First Prize Winner of the Hong Kong International Piano Competition (1997) and Prize Winner at the Porto International Piano Competition (1996), and Prize Winner of the 2001 CBC Radio National Competition for Young Performers, Jimmy Brière has played in recital or chamber music concerts in Holland, In Hong Kong, in Indianapolis, in Dallas, in Chicago, in Cleveland, in the Place des Arts of Montréal in Pro Musica series, in Palais Montcalm in Québec city, and various Festivals including the Banff Center of the Arts, the Lanaudière International Music Festival, the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, the International Music Festival of the Domaine Forget, Orford Festival, Festival of the Sound in Parry Sound, and Festival of Ste-Pétronille, to name a few. He has played with Edgar Meyer, James Campbell and the New Zealand String Quartet. In April 2000, he performed in Montréal with pianist Maneli Pirzadeh the world premiere of the Liszt Sonata transcribed for two pianos by Saint-Saens. Many of his performances in recital, in chamber music or with orchestra have been broadcasted by the CBC, Radio-Canada and by WFMT-FM (Chicago) Jimmy Brière is a member of Trio di Colore, along with Guy Yehuda on clarinet and Yuval Gotlibovich on viola. Gold medal winner of the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition 2004, the group has played for the past three years in Canada and the USA. A CD by Jimmy Brière for solo and trio music of Jean Françaix is expected to be released on the XX1-21 Productions Label and they have been touring Israël in the Spring of 2007. Jimmy Brière performed nine solo recital in Montréal’s Maisons de la culture “CAM en tournée “ (2006-2007), a co-production of Conseil des Arts de Montréal and Pro Musica Society. Graduate of the Université de Montréal, of the Indiana University School of Music and of the Glenn Gould School of Toronto, Jimmy Brière's main teachers have been Marc Durand, Menahem Pressler, Leon Fleisher and André Laplante. Jimmy Brière is Guest Professor at the Faculté de Musique of the Université de Montréal since 2004.
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