DAVID JALBERT
Pianist David Jalbert is one of the most remarkable talents
of the new generation. With his personal style, incomparable
stage presence and refined ear, he has wowed audiences and
critics everywhere in North America: "a deeply musical
pianist" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), "a virtuoso
in the best sense of the word" (La Presse), "…wide-ranging
musical imagination, phenomenal technique, and an unerring
lightness of being" (The Toronto Star). His first solo
disc, dedicated to the works of Corigliano and Rzewski,
was launched to great applause on Endeavour in 2004, and
was followed up in 2006 by an equally successful recording
of Fauré's complete Nocturnes. His most recent release
consists of the 24 Preludes and Fugues of Shostakovich on
the ATMA label (2008). David Jalbert has also recorded two
cello and piano discs with his long-standing musical partner
Denise Djokic, the first for Sony Classical in 2002, and
the second for Endeavour in 2005 (Folklore, nominated for
a Juno Award and listed in the top 15 of the Billboard charts),
as well as a CD with French horn player Louis-Philippe Marsolais
for the German label Oehms Classics. Mr. Jalbert performs
regularly with his dynamic piano trio (with violinist Jasper
Wood and cellist Yegor Dyachkov) under the name "Triple
Forte". He has collaborated with the Alcan Quartet,
as well as with pianists Anton Kuerti and Naida Cole. Mr.
Jalbert is the 2007 winner of the prestigious Virginia Parker
Prize of the Canada Council for the Arts, and is now Piano
Faculty at the University of Ottawa.
David Jalbert has been a guest soloist with many great
orchestras, such as the Montreal Symphony, the Vancouver
Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the Winnipeg Symphony, the
National Arts Centre Orchestra, the CBC Radio Orchestra
and the National Symphony of Ireland, and has collaborated
with conductors like Skitch Henderson, Yannick Nézet-Séguin,
Bramwell Tovey, Jacques Lacombe, Marc David, Dmitry Liss
and Mario Bernardi. He has performed in Canada, the United
States, Mexico and Europe; his vast repertoire of solo and
chamber music stretches from Bach to Ligeti. Mr.Jalbert's
interests in literature, cinema, rock'n'roll and blues shine
through in his musical selections, which can be heard regularly
on CBC Radio and Radio-Canada broadcasts.
David Jalbert holds two Artist Diplomas: one from the Juilliard
School in New York, the other from the Glenn Gould Professional
School in Toronto. He received his Master’s Degree
from the Université de Montréal at age 21,
winning the Governor General’s Gold Medal for the
best results of all of the University's graduate students.
His main teachers have been Jerome Lowenthal, Marc Durand,
André Laplante and Pauline Charron. He has also worked
with Leon Fleisher, John Perry, Claude Frank, Gilbert Kalish
and Marylin Engle.
Click here
to listen to a podcast interview with pianist David Jalbert
about his recording of the complete Shostakovich Preludes
and Fugues, opus 87.
For more information please visit www.davidjalbert.com.
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