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Olivier Godin
Pianist and Teacher
Appointed artistic director of the Bourgie Hall at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in June 2022, Olivier Godin pursues a brilliant career as a concert performer, chamber musician, and pedagogue in Canada and abroad.
In recital, he has collaborated with numerous lyrical artists such as Frédéric Antoun, Pascale Beaudin, Marc Boucher, Julie Boulianne, Gordon Bintner, Russell Braun, Donna Brown, Thomas Dolié, Étienne Dupuis, Antonio Figueroa, Julie Fuchs, Karina Gauvin, Hélène Guilmette, Wolfgang Holzmair, Laurence Kilsby, Aline Kutan, Dominique Labelle, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, François Le Roux, Michèle Losier, Sylvia Schwartz, and many others. As a chamber musician, he has performed alongside pianists Michel Béroff, Suzanne Blondin, Myriam Farid, and François Zeitouni, cellist Stéphane Tétreault, and oboist Louise Pellerin. He has performed at numerous Canadian festivals (Lanaudière, Domaine Forget, Orford, Parry Sound, Sainte-Pétronille, the OSM’s La Virée classique, Classica) as well as abroad (Palazzetto Bru-Zane in Venice, Wigmore Hall in London, Mexico Lieder Fest in Monterrey, Académie Francis Poulenc in Tours, Festival Albert Roussel in Lille, Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing, Johannes-Wasmuth Gesellschaft in Bonn, La Monnaie in Brussels, Opéra de Lille, Opéra de Montpellier, Source Song Festival in Minneapolis).
As a répétiteur, he has prepared numerous opera productions and concerts under the baton of renowned conductors such as Raffi Armenian, Franz-Paul Decker, Charles Dutoit, Agnès Grossman, Jacques Lacombe, Simon Leclerc, Kent Nagano, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Jean-Marie Zeitouni. He has worked with stage directors Alain Gauthier, Jean Herbiet, Titus Holweg, Albert Millaire, Klaus Ortner, Lorraine Pintal, François Racine, and Oriol Tomás.
For over 15 years, he has performed in concert with singer Diane Dufresne and is currently preparing a voice and piano concert tour with her to be presented this autumn throughout Quebec.
Olivier Godin has recorded around thirty albums acclaimed by international critics, including complete collections of songs by Poulenc, Fauré, Duparc, and Dutilleux, an album of melodies and piano works by Jolivet, the complete works for two pianos by Rachmaninov, the Liebeslieder Walzer by Brahms, as well as a solo album of piano works by Émile Pessard (world premiere). He recently recorded a complete collection of Jules Massenet’s 333 songs (including several previously unpublished works) for ATMA Classique with a dozen renowned singers.
He has given masterclasses for singers and pianists in Canada, the United States, Mexico, France, and Sweden.
Appointed professor at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal at the age of 25, Olivier Godin served as head of the institution’s Opera Workshop for nearly 15 years, where he continues to work as a répétiteur. He also teaches at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University as a Master Coach and professor of French lyric diction. He participates in numerous summer academies as a répétiteur and vocal accompaniment teacher for pianists. In 2017, he co-founded the Académie Vocale Internationale de Lachine with his colleague Richard Turp.
Olivier Godin received the Prize with Great Distinction in piano and chamber music from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, where he studied performance under the renowned Raoul Sosa.
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