About Marc-André Hamelin
Marc-André Hamelin, OC, OQ is a Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer who has received 11 Grammy Award nominations. He is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music. In 1994, Hamelin recorded the piano concerto of Adolf von Henselt with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins. Hamelin has recorded a wide variety of composers' music with the Hyperion label. Hamelin recorded the Johannes Brahms Piano Quartets with the Leopold String Trio. A cycle of seven pieces, Con Intimissimo Sentimento, was published (with a recording by Hamelin) by Ongaku No Tomo Sha; and a transcription of Zequinha de Abreu's Tico-Tico No Fubá has been published by Schott Music.
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