Marc Durand
Born in Canada, pianist Marc Durand enjoys a versatile career as soloist, accompanist, chamber musician, and pedagogue. He is currently professor of piano at the faculty of music of the University of Montreal, and is a visiting artist on a regular basis for the Glenn Gould Professional School at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. The strongest influence on his artistic evolution has certainly been from Leon Fleisher, with whom he has closely collaborated since 1988 in a program conceived for the exceptionally gifted at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Marc has won numerous scholarships from the Government of Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts, as well as many important competitions and prizes, including the International Stepping Stone of the Canadian Music Competition in 1973, and was the unanimous first prize winner at the Leschetizky Competition in New York in 1975. Following this, Mr. Durand made his Carnegie Recital Hall debut in January 1976. He has also appeared as soloist with a number of orchestras and has been heard regularly on Canadian radio and television. He has toured extensively in North America, Europe, North Africa, Asia, Indonesia, and Australia.
