Dr.
Louise-Turgeon completed graduate studies at Yale University
School of Music, earning Master of
Music (1993); Master of Musical Arts (1994) and Doctor of Musical
Arts (2000) degrees in piano performance, as well as the school’s
highest honor, the Dean’s Award for top graduate (1993),
as well as the Charles F. Miller Award for best recital (1992).
Dr.
Louise-Turgeon’s summer studies included Norfolk Chamber
Music Festival Fellowship; solo piano masterclasses at the Holland
Music sessions; chamber music and solo piano masterclasses at
the Banff Centre for Music and Sound and the International Jeunesses
Musicales chamber music course with members of Bavarian Radio
Orchestra in Weikersheim, Germany.
Her
teachers included Marietta Orlov, Lorand Fenyves, Marek Jablonski,
Boris Berman, Claude
Frank, Jean-Paul Sevilla, Gyorgy Sandor, John O’Conor,
Peter Frankl, Karl Heinz Kammerling and Karl Ulrich Schnabel,
Murray Perahia, Peter Serkin, and members of the Tokyo
and Cleveland string quartets.
As
a soloist, Dr. Louise-Turgeon has taken prizes in the
Cleveland and Sydney International Piano Competitions,
as well as a Government
of Canada Award for Achievement in the Arts and an Ontario
Arts Council Chalmers Award for advanced solo studies.
She appears
on the Albany
Records label performing solo piano music of Ezra Laderman.
With
her husband Edward, Dr. Louise-Turgeon maintains an active performing
and recording career as a member of the “Duo Turgeon”,
including appearances at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, two
performances at Carnegie Hall’s “Weill Recital
Hall”, and numerous
appearances in classical music series, festivals and special
celebrations, including Music Toronto, the Hamilton Philharmonic,
Sanibel Chamber
Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Austin Chamber
Music Festival, and the Novosibirsk Philharmonic.
Dr.
Louise-Turgeon have
given the world premiere performances of new works for
two pianos by composers such as Aaron Copland, John Corigliano
and Alex Pauk.
Her radio and television appearances include ABC (Australian
Broadcasting Corporation), Netherlands Radio, CBC Radio
I,
II and Arts National,
and NPR’s “Performance Today”, live interview/performances
on WGBH Boston and the PBS television documentary “Two
Pianos - One
Passion”.
The
Duo Turgeon took first prize in both the International Schubert
Competition for Piano Duos (Czech Republic)
and the Murray
Dranoff International Two Piano Competition. Their
six compact disc recordings on the Vanguard Classics, Marquis
Classics,
Marquis/EMI,
Dranoff Foundation and ClassXdiscs labels have received
5 out of 5 star ratings from several noted guides and periodicals,
including
la Scena Musicale, Les Grandes Pianistes et le Piano,
Wholenote
Magazine, Musicweb, Soundstage, and the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation’s “Sound
Advice”, along with several classical top ten
lists.
Dr.
Louise-Turgeon’s upcoming recording
projects include works for two pianos by Johannes
Brahms; two piano masterpieces by Spanish
composers as well as works for two pianos, and one
piano four-hands by Max Reger.
Dr.
Louise-Turgeon’s
has held various conservatory and university positions
including senior member of the Royal Conservatory
of Music
College of Examiners; keyboard faculty member at
Mount Holyoke College and associate professor of
collaborative arts at the Harid Conservatory.
Since
1999 she has served as keyboard faculty and ensemble-in-residence
member at Florida Atlantic
University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt
College of Arts and Letters School of the Arts. She
is also currently pursuing a Master of Arts Degree
in Composition at Florida Atlantic
University under the tutelage of Dr. Stuart Glazer. |