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MANELI PIRZADEH  Piano

Winner of an increasing number of national awards such as the First Prize Winner of the prestigious Prix d’Europe 2001, the First Prize Winner of the Tremplin International du Concours de musique du Canada in 2000, the First Prize Winner of the 1998 National Festival of Music CIBC Canada and the Fist Prize Winner in the Orford Arts Centre International Competition in 1996, the Canadian pianist, Maneli Pirzadeh, leads an active and brilliant career as a recitalist and chamber music player.

 Maneli Pirzadeh, has been acclaimed as soloist with such Orchestras as the North York Symphony Orchestra in Toronto, the Laval Symphonic Orchestra, the Montreal University Orchestra, the Sherbrooke Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Chamber Orchestra I Musici and collaborated with the distinguished conductors, Rafi Armenian, Yuli Turovsky, Stéphane Laforest, Jean-François Rivest.

As a recitalist, she as appeared at the Pro Musica series at Place des Arts in Montreal, at Music Toronto, at the Glenn Gould Studio and at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts in Toronto, at the Saskatoon Center of the Arts, at the Banff Centre of the Arts and, at Bishop’s University in Lennoxville, at Salle Pierre-Mercure, CBC musical Series.

Maneli Pirzadeh participates in a wide array of Festivals in Canada such as the Lanaudière International Music Festival, the Ottawa Chamber Music Society, the Orford Arts Center, the Banff Centre of the Arts, Trestler Summer Music Festival, Musique de Chambre à Ste-Pétronille, the Texas Piano Festival (USA), the Festival of San Miguel el grande Pro Musica  in Mexico and in Florida (USA)

She has also played in collaboration with such artists as Yuli and Eleonara Turovsky, Jutta Puchhammer, Ted Baskin, Yegor Dyachkov, Stéphane Lévesque, Guy Yehuda, Marie-Josée Lord, the Bomari Quartet, the Borealis Quartet and l'Ensemble Pentaèdre, to name a few.

She has been heard on many broadcasts of the CBC Radio-Canada in Montreal and Toronto.  Maneli Pirzadeh participated with piano-duo member Daniel Moran in a broadcast recording for CBC radio which included a commissioned work by Canadian composer Michel Frigon as well as Bartok's Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion with Catherine Meunier.

She recorded Glazounov’s Piano Concerto no.1 with I Musici of Montreal with Chandos Records Ltd (CHAN 9528), which garnered outstanding international reviews for her exceptional performance.

Maneli Pirzadeh has completed her Artist Diploma at the Glenn Gould Professional School of Music in  Toronto studying with such prestigious masters as Marc Durand, André Laplante  and Leon Fleisher. Under the supervision of Marc Durand, she obtained in 2002 her Doctorate in Interpretation from the Université de Montréal.

Maneli Pirzadeh is currently Professor and Advisor of piano at the Montreal University, (Qc) Canada.

Contact information:
Hélène Ducharme
[hducharme@academiemusiqueplus.org]