Chinese Treasures

Canadian pianist Roger Lord won First Prizes in the Canadian Music Competition as well as in the Canadian National Festival of Music. As a result of this success, he was invited to perform over 120 concerts in Canada and Europe in the Jeunesses Musicales concert series. His various professional engagements have later taken him to some of the world’s great cities: Paris, Oslo, Vienna, Montreal, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Quito, Cairo, Tunis, Tripoli, Riyadh, Hanoi, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, etc. Roger Lord has been featured as a guest soloist with symphony orchestras in North America, South America, Europe and Asia with conductors such as Jan Ola Amundsen, Jong Yoo, Graham Sutcliffe, James Mark, Miguel Jiménez Cueva and Davit Harutyunyan. Hailed as “The Piano Prince of Canada” by the China Daily, some of his performances took place in world renowned venues such as the Great Hall of the People located on Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Niccolo Paganini Auditorium in Parma, the Cairo Opera House, the Carthage Acropolium in Tunis, the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul, etc. Critics are enthusiastic and acknowledge “his skillful talent, great subtlety, genuine emotional generosity, as well as his grand technical mastery”. During the VIII Francophonie Summit held in Canada in 1999, Roger Lord was invited to perform a recital for the State Leaders of 52 nations. He represented Canada as a pianist at the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 and in various festivals around the world. The Association of Acadian Artists in Canada awarded him the “Éloize” Award for “Most Successful Acadian Artist Abroad” in 1999. He also received the “Excellence Award” in Music from the New Brunswick Arts Board in 2008. In November 2004, Roger Lord released a critically acclaimed CD of piano music by 19th century Louisiana composer and virtuoso Louis Moreau Gottschalk produced by the SNE label in Montreal. This CD received nominations in Canada for an Éloize Award as well as for an ECMA Award, and earned the special distinction “Bravo!!!” from Trad Magazine France. Roger Lord’s concert repertoire is wide and varied. He glides effortlessly from Bach, Händel and Mozart to Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Gershwin and Oscar Peterson. Mr. Lord has travelled to Asia numerous times. He has a particular interested in Chinese culture & music and is now preparing a CD recording of Chinese piano music which should be released in the near future. Roger Lord studied at Université de Moncton, McGill University, Université de Montréal as well as in Paris and Strasbourg, France. He also attended of the Moscow Piano Institute in Russia at the Gnessin Music Academy. He holds a Doctorate in Music and is now a Professor of piano at the Université de Moncton in Canada.