Pianist Stéphane Lemelin is well-known to audiences throughout Canada and regularly performs in the United States, Europe and Asia. A guest soloist of the major Canadian orchestras, he is widely sought after as a recitalist and chamber music partner.

His repertory is vast, with a predilection for the German Classical and Romantic literature and a particular affinity for French music, as evidenced by his more than twenty recordings, which include works by Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Poulenc and Roussel. Moreover, Stéphane Lemelin is director of the French music series “Découvertes 1890-1939” on the Atma Classique label, for which he has recorded works by Samazeuilh, Ropartz, Migot, Dupont, Dubois, Rhené-Bâton, Rosenthal, Alder, Lekeu and Vierne.

A prize-winner of the Robert Casadesus International Competition in Cleveland, he has received many national and international awards and grants, notably from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada.

Stéphane Lemelin studied with Yvonne Hubert in Montreal, Karl-Ulrich Schnabel in New York, Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory , Boris Berman and Claude Frank at Yale University, where he obtained a doctorate. He taught at the University of Alberta for more than ten years, and since 2001 has been on the faculty of the School of Music of the University of Ottawa, where he has served as Director since 2007. A dedicated pedagogue, he has been invited to give master classes around the world. Stéphane Lemelin is also a member of Trio Hochelaga and Artistic Director of an annual chamber music festival held in Ontario, the Prince Edward County Music Festival.