Instrument: Piano
Jacynthe Riverin was born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. She first studied music at the conservatories in Val-d’Or and Montreal, then at the Faculty of Music of Université Laval, where she worked with Francis Dubé and obtained her Master’s degree in performance in May of 2001. Through grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, she then went on to study with Dominique Weber in Geneva. She also worked with Richard Raymond at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music.
In November 2000, Ms. Riverin won First Prize in the OSM Standard Life Competition and subsequently made her OSM debut in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2. The following year, she was invited back to perform again with the OSM under Charles Dutoit, this time in the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Shostakovich. She has also appeared with the Quebec Symphony, the Sinfonia de Lanaudière, and the Orchestre franco-québécois pour la jeunesse playing, major concertos of the repertory. In 2004, she won the John Newmark Prize and the prize for best performance of a Canadian work in the Prix d’Europe of the Académie de musique du Québec.
Proficient in contemporary music as well as in classical and romantic, Jacynthe Riverin has performed with the SMCQ (Société de musique contemporaine du Québec) and with ECM (Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, including in Michel Gonneville ’s concerto Adonwe. She is also an accomplished performer of chamber music. Ms. Riverin has been playing for several years as a duo with saxophonist Mathieu Gaulin and is a member of the Fibonacci Trio.