Louise-Andrée Baril
Louise-Andrée Baril is one of the most accomplished musicians and pianists in Canada. Her instinctive and sensual style brings a distinct intensity to the works she interprets. In this new project, inspired by the exotic Spanish music, French music culminates to its zenith! Two musical universes meet through De Falla, Granados, Albéniz, Ravel, Debussy and many more.
This concept allows us to discover yet another feature of the artist.
Native from Cornwall, pianist Louise-Andrée Baril performs regularly in recitals and as soloist with orchestras across Canada as well as in Mexico, Central America, South-America, Asia and Europe, particularly France. Her repertoire is vast but she demonstrates a special curiosity for Spanish and French music, as well as for contemporary music.
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Her repertoire is vast but she demonstrates a special curiosity for Spanish and French music, as well as for contemporary music. As a chamber musician, she collaborated with several chamber groups such as Trio plus and La Piéta, where she is a founding member.
She worked with important ensembles such as the SMCQ, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, The State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, and the London-Sussex Symphony Orchestra. She also shared the stage with renowned conductors in Canada and abroad including Kent Nagano (Canada) Emanuel Suarez (Mexico) John Gibbons (England) Charles Dutoit, Franz-Paul Decker and Walter Boudreau.
She is frequently invited as pianist-collaborator by important international competitions such as the Montreal International Competition, the International Competition Reine-Elisabeth in Belgium and the Munich Competition. She regularly sits on international juries for piano competitions, including the Sussex International Piano Competition.
Louise-Andrée Baril also participated to more than 40 recordings with well-known artists such as Joseph Rouleau, Alain Marion, Aline Kutan, Jean-François Lapointe and Marc Hervieux. We can also hear her regularly on the air at Radio-Canada/CBC.
As an arranger, she has more than 40 works arranged for various ensembles, including special requests received from the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, La Piéta and the Lanaudière Festival.
As a vocal coach and rehearsal pianist, she worked for important opera houses. She leads several projects involving young singers in Quebec, Europe and China, where she frequently presents master classes. Since 2007, she provides artistic advice to the Jeunesses Musicales du Canada. She is passionate about lyric art and her repertoire contains over a hundred operas. In this field, she centers her attention on French lyric repertoire.
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