Paul-Andre Bempechat

Paul-Andre Bempechat is an internationally acclaimed Franco-Canadian concert pianist, musicologist, and lecturer renowned for his interpretations of the first Viennese school. A graduate of The Juilliard School and the Sorbonne, Dr. Bempechat is Artist-in-Residence at Leverett House, Harvard University. He has performed as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician on both sides of the Atlantic at major venues including Berlin's Konzerthaus, the Meininger-Theater, the Belgrade, Gothenburg,...See more

Paul-Andre Bempechat is an internationally acclaimed Franco-Canadian concert pianist, musicologist, and lecturer renowned for his interpretations of the first Viennese school. A graduate of The Juilliard School and the Sorbonne, Dr. Bempechat is Artist-in-Residence at Leverett House, Harvard University. He has performed as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician on both sides of the Atlantic at major venues including Berlin's Konzerthaus, the Meininger-Theater, the Belgrade, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Philharmonics, as well as the Caramoor, Holland, and Vienna Festivals. His universally acclaimed, seminal study of Jean Cras, Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and Letters (2009), has affirmed him as the authority on this eclectic Breton impressionist and as a champion of minority composers. Dr. Bempechat records for DANACORD Records, Copenhagen. See less