‘A performer of near-superhuman technical prowess’ (The New York Times), pianist Marc-André Hamelin is known worldwide for his unrivalled blend of consummate musicianship and brilliant technique in the great works of the established repertoire, as well as for his intrepid exploration of the rarities of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries—in concert and on recordings—earning his place as a true icon of the piano. He regularly gives concerts around the globe with the leading orchestras and conductors of our time, and performs recitals at the foremost international concert venues and festivals.

An exclusive recording artist for Hyperion Records, Hamelin has released eighty-nine albums to date, with notable recordings of a broad range of solo, orchestral and chamber repertoire. In 2023, the label released Hamelin’s recording of Fauré’s Nocturnes & Barcarolles plus the four-hand Dolly suite, played with his wife Cathy Fuller. In 2022, Hyperion released a double album of C P E Bach’s Sonatas & Rondos and another of William Bolcom’s Complete rags, both of which received wide critical acclaim and chart success. Featuring nine original pieces, Hamelin’s 2024 album New Piano Works is a survey of some of his own recent works, exhibiting his formidable skill as a composer-pianist whose music imaginatively and virtuosically taps into his musical forebears. ‘His previous offerings of his own music were rich, but his latest self-portrait album is on another level’, wrote The New York Times, one of many outlets that wrote glowing reviews. It was Hamelin’s first album of all original compositions since Études (2010).

Hamelin has composed music throughout his career, most of which is published by Edition Peters, including his Études and Toccata on L’homme armé, the latter commissioned by the Van Cliburn Foundation. Hamelin performed the Toccata along with music by C P E Bach and Bolcom in an NPR Tiny Desk concert in 2023. His latest compositions include a piano quintet, which he premiered in 2022 with the Dover Quartet, and the solo piano works Hexensabbat and Mazurka, the latter commissioned by the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, where the composer presented the first performance in spring 2024.

Hamelin makes his home in the Boston area with his wife Cathy Fuller, a producer and host at WCRB. Born in Montréal, he is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award and over twenty quarterly awards from the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, and has received seven Juno Awards, eleven Grammy nominations and the 2018 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance, the last of which was awarded by Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. In 2020 he was awarded the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Keyboard Artistry from the Ontario Arts Foundation. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier de l’Ordre du Québec and a member of the Royal Society of Canada.