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Renowned for his interpretations of the First Viennese School, Brahms, Schumann and Chopin, Franco-Canadian Pianist Paul-André Bempechat is a self-styled, eclectic product of the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School, where he worked with the legendary performer-teachers Artur Balsam, Felix Galimir, and Nadia Reisenberg in piano and chamber music, and Martin Isepp in vocal accompanying.

Decorated as Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture, and as Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academic Chapel at Uppsala University, M. Bempéchat has toured in virtually every country in Europe, including major appearances at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Barbican Centre London, the Philharmonics in Meiningen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Rotterdam and Belgrade; he has also appeared at the Wiener Festwochen, the Husum Festival of Rarities for the Piano, the Caramoor and Holland Festivals, and most recently Uppsala University, where he was Artist-in-Residence during Spring 2023.  Colleagues and critics alike have hailed him as a singularly lucid, introspective interpreter capable of drawing audiences into a near-palpable relationship with the select composers he performs.

Paul-André Bempéchat will begin recording Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas for Danacord Records, Copenhagen in Spring 2024.

Industry Experience

• Artist-in-Residence, Leverett House, Harvard University
• Recording artist for Danacord, Copenhagen

Select Concert and Lecture Appearances

• 2017 – University of Texas, Austin
• 2017 – Uppsala University
• 2017 – Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm
• 2017 – Stockholm University
• 2017 – Harvard University
• 2016 – Uppsala University
• 2016 – Stockholm University
• 2016 – Scandinavian Cultural Center,
• 2016 – Swedish Cultural Center, Washington, DC
• 2016 – Gustav Mahler Vereinigung, Hamburg, Germany
• 2016 – Internationale Gustav-Mahler Gesellschaft, Vienna
• 2016 – Jihlava (Czech Republic) Department of Tourism
• 2016 – International School of Boston
• 2016 – Harvard University: Conway Concerts at Leverett House

Publications

Monographs, Edited Volumes and Journals

• 2023 –  Jean Cras, Polymath of music and Letters, 2nd edition, Peter Lang Academic Publishing
• 2021 – Jean Cras, Mélodies de jeunesse, first edition, Ayotte Publishing
• 2016 – Naturlauf: Scholarly Excursions Toward Gustav Mahler, Essays in Honour of Henry-Louis de La Grange at His 90th Birthday. Editor/Contributor. New York: Peter Lang Publishing; 672 p.

Articles

• 2017 – “Restoring Luise Greger: A Renaissance in Progress,” in Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music (Vol. 23, no. 1, 2017)
• 2015 – “Jean Cras, Musicien-Marin” in Mon violon m’a sauvé la vie – Destins de musiciens dans la Grande Guerre. Musée de Meaux (France); in press
• 2011 – “Felix Mednelssohn’s Reformation Symphony and the Culture of Assimilation,” in Harvard University Center for European Studies Working Paper Series; online, at 25 pp.
• 2011 – “The Location of Mendelssohn’s Culture: Religious Counterpoint, Confusion and Synthesis in the Reformation Symphony,” in Ars Lyrica 19, pp.27-56
• 2011 – “Lori Laitman,” in The New Grove Dictionary of American Music
• 2010 – “Rita Strohl, Classicist or Mystic?” in Journal of the International Association of Women in the Arts, pp. 17-22
• 2010 – “The Abergavenny Eisteddfod of 1838 and the Birth of Barzaz Breiz,” in Ars Lyrica Celtica (Ars Lyrica 17), pp.97-129
• 2009 – “The Breton Compositions of Jean Cras” in Proceedings of the 23rd Harvard Celtic Colloquium

Awards

• 2023 – Appointed Artist-in-Residence, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala
• 2017 – Appointed Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by the Government of France
• 2017 – Appointed Hederskapellist (Honorary Fellow) of the Royal Academic Chapel, Uppsala University (Sweden)
• 2016 – Honored by the Cities of Vienna and Jihlava for research and publication on Gustav Mahler
• 2014 – Winner of the Austrian-American Association of Boston’s Annual Scholarship Competition
• 2010 – Honored by the Regional Arts Council of Brittany for biography of Jean Cras
• 1998 – Winner of the Scholarly Papers Competition of the National Opera Association

Professional Affiliations

• American Musicological Society
• Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations – President
• American Comparative Literature Association
• National Opera Association