Instrument: piano
Canadian pianist Bryan Wagorn, hailed by Radio-Canada as an “exceptional artist,” has appeared throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has recorded for CBC Radio, Radio-Canada, and Rogers Television. Recently, he appeared at New York’s Steinway Hall, where his performance of music by Azerbaijanian composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh was described by the New York Times as “haunting.”
Bryan Wagorn is a laureate of the Canadian Music Competition and the Concours Jeunes Artistes, for which he was declared one of Canada’s most promising young artists. In 2003, he received the Mitchell Sharp Promising Young Artist Award from the National Arts Centre of Canada, and has also received support from the Marusia Yaworska Foundation. He has appeared at New York’s Lincoln Center, in Toronto’s Glenn Gould Studio, in Salzburg’s Wiener Saal and at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre. Bryan Wagorn has toured China with violinist David Stewart and the Tabaret Ensemble, and has been heard on Radio-Canada in performance with pianist Stéphane Lemelin.
During the past four summers, Bryan Wagorn has been invited to participate in the National Arts Centre’s “Summer Music Institute” directed by Pinchas Zukerman, where he has worked closely with Joseph Kalichstein, Benita Valente, Michael Tree, and members of the Orion String Quartet. In 2007, Bryan returned as faculty to their Young Artist Program for Junior Strings.
Bryan Wagorn holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Ottawa, where he studied with pianist Stéphane Lemelin. He studied previously with Claude Labelle at the Université de Montréal, and is currently a Master’s candidate at the Mannes College of Music, studying with Jacob Lateiner.