Gabriel Quenneville-Belair
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Gabriel Quenneville-Belair is a French Canadian pianist hailed for his electrifying and powerful performances,
revealing an unbridled imagination imbued with musical intelligence. His colourful interpretations
marry a poignant polyphony with clarity of technique and form.
Gabriel Q-B holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance with Lydia Artymiw from the
University of Minnesota, where he was a Piano Teaching Assistant from 2013 to 2016. In recent
seasons, he has performed Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor with KSO, OSI, OPMEM,
and the University of Minnesota Orchestra as the winner of the 2016 University of Minnesota
Concerto Competition. Noteworthy invitations include a recital and masterclass for the Musicians’
Association of Tai’an, China, and a lecture-recital on Russian Piano Repertoire for the Minneapolis
Music Teacher Association in Minnesota.
Gabriel has garnered prestigious awards including the Centennial Fellowship at the University of
Minnesota, numerous scholarships from the Orford Art Center, and the Gilles-Gauthier Scholarship
for Best Academic Profile at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, from which he holds a
Master’s Degree in Piano Performance with Richard Raymond.
Most notably, he is the 2016 Prizewinner of the Claude F. Lefebvre Scholarship of the Fondation de
soutien aux arts de Laval. This award is dedicated to supporting his album, a compilation of
Russian, Norwegian, Canadian and French music.
Gabriel Q-B has received mentorship from several distinguished pianists such as André Laplante,
Benedetto Lupo, Robert Silverman, Marc Durand, Raoul Sosa, Ksenia Nosikova, Kyoko
Hashimoto, Jean Saulnier, Suzanne Blondin, Esther Gonthier and Olivier Godin. In addition to his
solo performance, he takes great pleasure in collaborating in unconventional settings, such as a
piece by François-Gabriel Madden for a 16th-tone Piano and small orchestra, and his premiere of
Persephone by Ted Moore, for small ensemble and dancers.
Gabriel Q-B has premiered numerous works by living composers such as a Prelude by Sean
Clarke, written especially for him to perform. His dedication to exploring a truly modern repertoire
of the piano establishes him as a passionate defender of contemporary music.
For more information, please visit his website:
www.gabrielqbpiano.com
revealing an unbridled imagination imbued with musical intelligence. His colourful interpretations
marry a poignant polyphony with clarity of technique and form.
Gabriel Q-B holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance with Lydia Artymiw from the
University of Minnesota, where he was a Piano Teaching Assistant from 2013 to 2016. In recent
seasons, he has performed Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor with KSO, OSI, OPMEM,
and the University of Minnesota Orchestra as the winner of the 2016 University of Minnesota
Concerto Competition. Noteworthy invitations include a recital and masterclass for the Musicians’
Association of Tai’an, China, and a lecture-recital on Russian Piano Repertoire for the Minneapolis
Music Teacher Association in Minnesota.
Gabriel has garnered prestigious awards including the Centennial Fellowship at the University of
Minnesota, numerous scholarships from the Orford Art Center, and the Gilles-Gauthier Scholarship
for Best Academic Profile at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, from which he holds a
Master’s Degree in Piano Performance with Richard Raymond.
Most notably, he is the 2016 Prizewinner of the Claude F. Lefebvre Scholarship of the Fondation de
soutien aux arts de Laval. This award is dedicated to supporting his album, a compilation of
Russian, Norwegian, Canadian and French music.
Gabriel Q-B has received mentorship from several distinguished pianists such as André Laplante,
Benedetto Lupo, Robert Silverman, Marc Durand, Raoul Sosa, Ksenia Nosikova, Kyoko
Hashimoto, Jean Saulnier, Suzanne Blondin, Esther Gonthier and Olivier Godin. In addition to his
solo performance, he takes great pleasure in collaborating in unconventional settings, such as a
piece by François-Gabriel Madden for a 16th-tone Piano and small orchestra, and his premiere of
Persephone by Ted Moore, for small ensemble and dancers.
Gabriel Q-B has premiered numerous works by living composers such as a Prelude by Sean
Clarke, written especially for him to perform. His dedication to exploring a truly modern repertoire
of the piano establishes him as a passionate defender of contemporary music.
For more information, please visit his website:
www.gabrielqbpiano.com
