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 2008 release on
the ATMA label, Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues opus
87, drew rave reviews, won an Opus Award and was nominated
for a Juno Award. His most recent opus is dedicated to works
by minimalist greats John Adams and Philip Glass, and his
eagerly awaited recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations
is now forthcoming. David Jalbert has also recorded several
chamber music CDs, most notably with his long-standing musical
partner Denise Djokic (their hit album Folklore also garnered
a Juno nod) as well as with French hornist Louis-Philippe
Marsolais, Pentaèdre, and of course Triple Forte,
Mr. Jalbert’s dynamic piano trio (with violinist Jasper
Wood and cellist Yegor Dyachkov). He has also collaborated
with Rachel Barton Pine, 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, Alexander Anissimov, Peter Kuhn, Marc David,
Dmitry Liss and Dinuk WIjeratne. 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.
Click here
to connect to an article on David Jalbert in the Encyclopedia
of Music in Canada.
