Blake Pouliot and Henry Kramer at the Oscar Peterson Concert Hall – October 20, 2024

Violinist Blake Pouliot and Pianist Henry Kramer

Born in Toronto in 1994, Blake Pouliot studied violin with Marie Berard and Erika Raum, then with the renowned pedagogue Robert Lipsett at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. Pouliot has established himself as a consummate 21st-century artist. He has performed with all the major Canadian orchestras as well as with many abroad. In 2017 Pouliot toured South America as a soloist with the Orchestra of the Americas performing Piazzolla’s Four Seasons. His many distinguished awards and prizes include the Montreal Symphony’s Manulife Competition in 2016, the Dorothy Delay Award, Grand Prize from the Canadian Federation of Music Festivals, and the Canada Council Michael Measures and Virginia Parker Prizes. He served as Soloist-in-Residence with Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain in the 2020-2021 season. In 2022 Yannick Nézet-Séguin invited Pouliot to perform with the Philadelphia Orchestra, with which he played Corigliano’s Red Violin. He also served as Soloist-in-Residence three years in a row with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Pouliot’s debut album on Analekta Records of music by Debussy and Ravel earned a five-star rating from BBC Music Magazine and a 2019 Juno Award nomination for Best Classical Album. Pouliot performs on a 1729 Guarneri del Gesù instrument on loan from from an anonymous donor. 2nd LMMC concert.

Henry Kramer, pianist, received international recognition in 2016 with a Second Prize win in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. In 2019, he was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant by Lincoln Center. He joined the Music faculty of Université de Montréal in September 2022. LMMC debut.

Program
RÓZSA   (1907-1995)
Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song, Op. 4 (1929)

C. SCHUMANN   (1819-1896)
Three Romances, Op. 22 (1853)

R. SCHUMANN  (1810-1856)
Violin and Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 105 (1851)

CHAUSSON     (1855-1899)
Poème, op. 25 (1896)

RAVEL  (1875-1937)
Violin and Piano Sonata No. 2, “Blues” (1927)

To learn more about Blake Pouliot, visit: www.blakepouliot.com

To learn more about Henry Kramer, visit: www.henrykramerpiano.com

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