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Friday, February 10, 2017 at 7:30 PM

Duo Fortin-Poirier

Amélie Fortin
Marie-Christine Poirier
(one piano, 4 hands)

Starting performance:   Rianna Robinson (vocalist)

Duo Fortin-Poirier, featuring pianists Amélie Fortin and Marie-Christine Poirier, has been heralded as one of the most promising piano duos of its generation. Both are graduates of the Université de Montréal (Master and D.E.S.S.). They won several awards and grants individually before making their debut as duettists in 2005. Since its creation, the Duo Fortin-Poirier has given many concerts in Canada as well as abroad. The two pianists are grant winners of the Office Franco-Québécois pour la Jeunesse (2005), the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec (2009-2010), the Canada Council for the Arts (2011-2013), and they have also won First Prize at the Concours de Musique Clermont-Pépin, the Festival de Musique du Royaume as well as the Canada Music Competition.

At the international level, they were finalists in the Concours International de Piano à 4 mains de Valberg (France, 2009) and in the Liszt 200 Chicago International Piano Duos Competition (U.S., 2011). Their brilliant interpretation of John Corigliano’s Gazebo Dances also awarded them a special mention from the jury at the prestigious Concours Grieg – International Piano Competition in Oslo (Norway, 2010). Recently, they won the 2nd prize at the Roma International Piano Competition (Italy, 2013). Very active on the Quebec scene, Amélie Fortin and Marie-Christine Poirier created the Vingts doigts et un piano concert in 2008 and they have since performed it in every corner of Quebec. Learn more at Debut Atlantic.