Charles Richard-Hamelin
Charles Richard-Hamelin is a Canadian concert pianist from Joliette, Quebec.Early life and education
Richard-Hamelin was born in Lanaudière, Quebec, Canada, and took his first piano lessons with his father. He studied at McGill University, where he received his bachelor's degree in 2011. Richard-Hamelin completed his master's degree at Yale School of Music in 2013.Career
In 2014, he won second prize at the Montreal International Musical Competition and third prize at the Seoul International Music Competition in South Korea. The following year, he participated in the XVII International Chopin Piano Competition, where he received the silver medal and the Krystian Zimerman Prize for the best performance of a Sonata. He also received the most prize money in the Competition.
Following the competition Richard-Hamelin toured across Canada mainly performing works by Chopin. The Fryderyk Chopin Institute later released a two-disc album of his audition performances for the competition. He also completed three concert tours in Japan.
In 2018 Richard-Hamelin and Andrew Wan released an album, Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 6, 7 & 8; in 2019 the album was nominated for a Juno Award as Classical album of the year. In February 2019 he gave a solo performance at Koerner Hall in Toronto; the performance was recorded by CBC Radio 2.
