Piano 2015-2018 SEASONS

Creative spirit, authentic musician!

Acclaimed everywhere he performs, Antoine Joubert is a unique world class award-winning performer, composer & teacher who has toured Europe & North America. He began teaching himself piano at 13 and finished his doctorate in 2011 with the famous Vietnamese pianist Dang Thai Son at the University of Montreal.

Since then, Dr. Joubert has won several first prizes and other important prizes and so had a very quick and promising start to his performing career. He was invited to perform in concert series and festivals as a soloist as well as a collaborative musician on both national and international stages.

« A real pianist » -Helmut Brauss, Toronto, 2000

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The Complete Chopin Studies

Main project

This work presents a great challenge for any pianist. For the 2015-2016 season up to Winter of 2017, Antoine Joubert offers you all 27 Chopin Studies from opus 10, 25 and the Brown-Index 130. The writing of the studies was considered to be revolutionary for Chopin’s time and remains today a reference in the understanding of piano playing. The studies are not only highly virtuosic, but incredibly expressive and beautiful. Chopin’s eloquent poetry presents a wide range of characters, from tenderness, fragility and charm to rage, passion, sadness and joy. For these reasons, they cannot be considered as simple exercises; they are masterpieces. It’s very interesting to hear the evolution of the writing of Chopin from one study to the next. Even though Chopin did not intend them to be played as a whole the way he intended for his preludes, for example, he organized the studies in a logical and contrasting way that goes far beyond both the expressive and technical limits of the piano writing of his time.

The Golberg Variations in 2017-2018 Next project The next solo project of Antoine Joubert is another great challenge: the Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach. He shall start playing them in Fall of 2017.

Masterclasses Mr. Joubert offers to pair his concerts with masterclasses and/or interactive workshops for piano students of any level.

Other programs Although his main recital project of 2015-16 will be the Chopin Studies, Antoine Joubert has a diverse repertoire and has other program proposals to offer.

Piano/Voice Antoine Joubert also performs in duo with the Mezzo-Soprano Kristin Hoff. Together, they offer varied programming of classical, cabaret, jazz and pop, that can win the heart of any audience.

Chamber music & Orchestra Collaboration with orchestra or with other musicians can be arranged.

Biography

Since Antoine Joubert finished his doctorate with pianist Dang Thai Son at the University of Montreal in 2011 after fast-tracking through the Masters degree, he performed abroad Canada in more than 70 cities and in several European countries. He has also been a finalist and received several first prizes in national and international competitions. In November of 2013 he won the 1st prize and the Superstar prize for all categories at the BC Piano Talent Superstar Competition. More recently, as a collaborative pianist, he went to the finals of the International Competition of Canari in Corse (France) with the mezzo-soprano Kristin Hoff. He also won the first prizes of the national competitions CCC Music Festival of Toronto (2012) and the first prizes with gold medal at the Festival du Royaume (2011). In 2012 he played in the grand final of the international competition Open Piano Competition that was held in London, UK and finished 4th over 250 contestants. This same year, right after finishing his studies, he was hired by the Musical Youth of Canada to make a tour of 23 concerts. He received other prizes such as the prize Claire-Charbonneau-Clerk at the Prix d’Europe (2009) and a second prize for his composition

Scordatura for solo cello at the Competition of Young Composers of SOCAN (2005).

He began to teach himself piano around the age of 13, exploring writing for piano in his compositions and his decision to become a classical performer became clear when he received the first prize Bruno Bios for the best final exam at the Bachelor level at the University of Laval (Québec). Antoine also completed a Bachelor degree in composition while commencing with his graduate studies in piano at the University of Montréal. He is deeply interested in research and piano pedagogy. He has taught for fifteen years, some of these as an adjunct professor at the University of Montreal, he organizes and directs concerts such as the “Concert Series of Music Graduates -University Laval”. Antoine Joubert got invited to teach piano at Columbia College in Vancouver for winter and spring 2014. He is now teaching in Montreal in the well-known school Vincent-d’Indy as well as in the school Ferdinand-Lindsay in Joliette. He recently gave a masterclass to students of the MacMaster University in Hamilton. His first professional studio solo recording will soon be available. You can learn more about him on his website : http://antoinejoubert.com/.

Reviews The highlight of this year’s festival

-Artistic director of the Vancouver Island Chamber Music Festival, November 2013

A fine pianist ! -Artistic director of the Opera of Vancouver, November 2013

The stunning black machine was [...] tackled by technically brillant Antoine Joubert [...]

who is in his prime. -Artistic directors of the Open Piano Competition, London, UK, October 2012

I would listen to him play Janá!ek at any time of the day or the night.

-Leslie Howard, pianist, London, UK, 2012

Someone who plays Janá!ek like that cannot but be a good man.

-Leslie Howard, pianist, Camposampiero, Italy, 2012

Mr Joubert is an excellent pianist and, more importantly, an intelligent, sensitive artist,

whose playing is at once scholarly and full of personal charm. He possesses very fine

keyboard skills and thorough general musicianship. All of his performances that I have

heard – across a broad and challenging repertoire – have been of the highest order, never

more so than in his incisive and compelling playing of the extraordinary piano music of

Janá!ek. He is a man of unimpeachable probity, good humour and reliability.

-Leslie Howard, pianist, January 2013 A pianist with deep musicality. Thank you, Antoine Joubert.

-Lise Langlois, responsible of the Musical Youth of Canada in Rouyn-Noranda, 2012

A musician of first rate. His rich imagination, refinement, curiosity and mental vivacity

contribute to the quality and sincerity of his playing, writing and composing.

-Dang Thai Son, renowned pianist, 2012

Mr. Joubert embodies a magnificient musical talent paired with an immense temperament.

His playing is always intense and passionate, with a multitude of musical colours. He is a

sincere musician and enriches audience members in a very human way. A great future

awaits Mr. Joubert ! -Laurence Kayaleh, violonist, judge of the Festival du Royaume, Montréal, Canada, August 2011

The pianist Antoine Joubert has the qualities of the original and authentic artist, the deep

and intense engagement of the real musician and the charisma of the dazzling and

distinguished virtuoso.

-Michel Franck, pianiste, accompagnateur et pédagogue, Québec, Canada, 2011

Joubert’s playing gave me goose-bumps !

-Frédéric Demers, trumpetist and pedagogue, at the Festival du Royaume, 2011

Inspired and poetic playing with excellent technical control. The character of the pieces was realized with intelligence and a rich imagination. Remarkable talent !

-Robert Weisz, pianist and professor emeritus at University of Laval, 2004

Main concerts before 2015

1 recital –Musikstudio Ohrpheo, Berlin (Germany) 2015

2 Collaborative International Competition, France 3 solo recitals –Chopin studies (complete), opus 10, opus 25 & 3 new studies, Ottawa

Tour in Vancouver, Victoria, Qualicum Beach, West Vancouver 2014

2 recitals with the mezzo-soprano Kristin Hoff: -Maison de la culture, Montréal -McMaster University series, Ontario Solo recital, Southminster series, Ottawa 4 recitals with the mezzo-soprano Kristin Hoff, Vancouver, Manssonville, Niagara, Toronto 3 solo recitals: -Series of the Alliance Française de Vancouver, Vancouver -Silk Purse Arts Centre, West Vancouver -With string quintet, La Petite Maison des Arts, Montréal Live professionnal recording of 2 Beethoven concertos with string quintet, Québec 2 Beethoven concertos with the Young Orchestra of Montreal

2 concerts in collaboration with Dragon Diva opera company, Coquitlam 2013 2 concerts with the Children’s choir of Coastal Sound Music, Vancouver Presentation at Columbia College, Vancouver Concert for Benjamin Britten’s anniversary with the Vancouver Opera Company, Vancouver 7 concerts with the choir De Coro of Coastal Sound Music, Vancouver, BC Final of the 2013 Piano Stars Competition, Vancouver, BC Recital with the mezzo-soprano Kristin Hoff: -St-Catharines, Ontario

-Alliance Française de Vancouver, Vancouver -Vancouver Island Chamber Music Festival -Festival Music in Niagara, NOTL, Ontario -Petite Maison des Arts, Montréal

Recital in collaboration with Opera di Concertisti, Vancouver 2nd edition of the Sussex international piano competition, Worthing (United Kingdom)

Solo recitals: 2011 / 2012

-Series of the Chapelle Historique du Bon Pasteur, Montréal -St-Augustin, postcasted live on radio of CKIA, Québec -2 at the Series of the Graduates of Univ. of Laval , Salle Henri-Gagnon, Québec

-Musikstudio Ohrpheo, Berlin (Germany) -Hamilton, MacMaster University, Ontario International piano competition « OPC », London (United Kingdom) International piano competition « G. F. Fano », Santuari San Antonio, Camposampiero (Italy) Tour of the Musical Youth of Canada, 23 performances/cities in Quebec and Ontario National competition, CCC Music Festival, Toronto Professional recording, Charlevoix, Domaine Forget Final doctoral recital, Salle Claude-Champagne, Montréal National competition, Festival du Royaume, Jonquière Congress of the Musical Youth of Canada, with baritone Philippe Sly, Domaine Forget, Qc

Awards

Finalist as collaborative pianist at the International Competition of Canari (Corse) 2015

International traveling grants -Québec government France 2015, Vancouver 2015, Sussex (UK) 2013, London (UK) 2012, Italy 2012, Germany 2011

1st prize and Superstar prize for all categories of the Piano Stars Competition, BC 2013

Finalist at the international Open Piano Competition in London (UK) 2012

1st prize -National competition, CCC Music Festival, Artist division -Toronto

1st prize and gold medal -Competition Festival du Royaume, Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean 2011

2nd prize « Claire-Charbonneau-Clerk » -competition Prix d’Europe, Montréal 2009

2nd prize -Category Pierre Mercure, SOCAN Young Composer Competition 2005

1st prize « Bruno Bios » for the best undergraduate exam in piano, Québec 2004

3rd prize -National finals, Canadian Music Competition, Toronto 2000

Finalist and Honorable Mention -Univ. of Laval, Concerto Competition, Québec

Provincial finalist, Canadian Music Competition, Montréal 1999