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	Lortie, Louis
		Lortie began to study piano at seven, working successively with Nicole Pontbriand-Beaudoin, and Sister Simone Martin at the École de musique Wilfrid-Pelletier and Yvonne Hubert at the École normale de musique.
		Lortie received the Virginia P. Moore prize awarded by the Canada Council in 1984 and the Grand prix of the Conseil des arts de la Communauté urbaine de Montréal in 1986.
		Louis Lortie was named a member of the Order of Canada in 1992, and an officer in 1995.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002106 (823 words)

	Oh, Lortie
		Lortie scrupulously obeys the composer’s markings, in general stressing an elegance and beauty of tone over flair and excitement.
		Lortie’s playing after the intermission, starting with the lovely "Trois nouvelles Etudes" and continuing on with the magnificent Opus 25, might as well have been by a different pianist.
		Lortie’s renewed composure was so pronounced that I doubt anyone would mind if the audience is frisked for beepers and cell phones at future concerts.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/012501/mus.lortie.shtml (417 words)

	Louis Lortie - Biography
		Lortie has performed the complete works of Ravel in London and Montréal for the BBC and CBC, and is also known for his interpretation of Chopin.
		Lortie performed Beethoven’s 32 sonatas for piano; ten sonatas for violin and Piano/five sonatas for cello and piano; and six trios for piano, violin and cello with violinist James Ehnes and cellist Jan Vogler.
		Born in Montréal, Louis Lortie made his debut with the Montréal Symphony at the age of thirteen and the Toronto Symphony three years later, which as a result engaged him for an historic tour of the People’s Republic of China and Japan.
	www.seldycramerartists.com /www/BioLortie.html (664 words)

	Louis Lortie: Back to Beethoven
		Lortie takes the time to talk about the works they're studying, of course, but also to discuss the direction their lives will take if they decide to give themselves completely to a concert career.
		Lortie also deplores the fact that there are so few alternatives, apart from competitions, to give the younger generation a chance he get known.
		Lortie plans to undertake the symphonies as well, through transcriptions, but he also intends to follow in the footsteps of Ashkenazy and Barenboim by climbing onto the podium to conduct Beethoven's First, a more restricted work that makes a perfect début vehicle for someone who has already conducted all the tutti of the concertos.
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm7-1/lorties-en.html (1573 words)

	Bronson Piano Studio
		This was his Lortie's third concert on the Monterey Peninsula, for he had appeared previously playing a concerto with the Monterey Symphony in 1996 and a solo recital for the Keyboard Artist Series in 1997.
		Although Lortie's mastery in works by Chopin is well known, I had not heard him play Beethoven before, thus I was amazed at how much I was drawn into his performances and swept away with the logic of his approach.
		Lortie is indeed one of the most important pianists on the concert scene today.
	www.bronsonpianostudio.com /reviews/101701r1.htm (827 words)

	Louis Lortie - Arts - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		Lortie has the imagination for the former and the intelligence for the latter, bringing charm to both with persuasive subtlety and superb control.
		Lortie was simplicity itself in the beautiful second theme of the first movement though for me the form fragmented at the repeat and development section due to tempo inconsistency.
		Lortie rode the noble stallion of the finale with aristocratic bearing, moulding the work with brilliant flamboyance and surging momentum, and pausing inscrutably just once to consider his fate.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Arts/Louis-Lortie/2005/06/08/1118123897907.html (483 words)

	CD Rewiew: Liszt - Piano Sonata in B-Minor
		Lorties playing is so soft so the music is just floating forward, sudden like the move of a fog, still many details are there which makes the reading very lush and rich.
		Lorties interpretation is true an intellectual one, but it fusions the brain with the heart in a syntheseis that is absolutely wonderful.
		Lortie lacks some in the power in certain places, but that is something I always felt in commercial recordings with Lortie, like if he knew the microphones were there and that sustains his power.
	www.fortunecity.de /kraftwerk/metallica/84/liszt.html (1533 words)

	classical music - andante - louis lortie's 14-course beethoven feast
		Louis Lortie, who took first prize at the Busoni Competition in Italy and had previously made a sensation at the Leeds Competition in Great Britain, is now one of Canada's most sought-after pianists.
		Lortie is obviously an accomplished musician who knows when to come to the forefront and when to withdraw and give careful attention to his counterparts.
		Lortie has also given much thought to Beethoven's music — its formal and psychological complexity as well as profoundly human nobility.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=14433 (724 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Performer Details
		Canadian pianist LOUIS LORTIE studied in Montreal with Yvonne Hubert (a pupil of the great French pianist Alfred Cortot), in Vienna with the Beethoven specialist Dieter Weber, subsequently with Schnabel disciple Leon Fleisher, and was also deeply influenced by the distinguished violinist and chamber music teacher Josef Gingold.
		Lortie often arranges his performances and recordings in cycles concentrating on a particular composer.
		Lortie also teaches at Italy’s renowned piano institute at Imola, where the school’s philosophy of exposing students to several different schools of piano playing closely matches his own.
	www.laphil.org /resources/performer_detail.cfm?id=404 (300 words)

	Louis Lortie
		Lortie made his debut with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at the age of 13.
		Lortie has also participated in several renowned festivals such as the Boston Symphony's Tanglewood Festival, the Chicago Symphony's Ravinia Festival, the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York, Brescia Bergamo in Italy, La Roque d'Antheron in France, Henley in Great Britain, and Bad Kissingen in Germany.
		Lortie also performed during the summer of 1996 with the Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom, the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Mann Music Center, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and at the famous London "Proms" with the BBC Symphony.
	www.rockefeller.edu /pubinfo/lortie.html (357 words)

	National Arts Centre - Centre national des Arts
		Louis Lortie next presents Mendelssohn’s Rondo Capriccioso, a polished and beautifully crafted piece written when the precocious composer was about fifteen.
		Louis Lortie’s last appearance at the National Arts Centre was in May 2003, where he performed Chopin’s Piano Concerto in E minor with the NAC Orchestra.
		Tickets for this Great Performers recital featuring pianist Louis Lortie on April 19 are on sale now at $25.00, $39.00, 41.00, $49.00 and 51.00, with box seats at $60.50 (GST and Facility Fee included) at the NAC Box Office (Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 21:00), and through Ticketmaster (with surcharges) at 613-755-1111.
	www.nac-cna.ca /en/nacnews/printview.cfm?ID=689 (572 words)

	Saint Louis Symphony
		Lortie has performed with the National Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Montréal Symphony, and the BBC Symphony at the London Proms; the Toronto and Atlanta symphonies; the Flemish Radio Orchestra; the orchestras of Lyon, Bordeaux, and RAI Torino; the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Spanish National Orchestra, and the Dutch Radio Symphony.
		Lortie teaches at Italy’s renowned piano institute at Imola, where the school’s philosophy of exposing students to several different schools of piano playing closely matches his own.
		Lortie’s most recent appearance with the Saint Louis symphony Orchestra was in March 1998.
	www.slso.org /0203notes/sub26.htm (2686 words)

	Orchestre symphonique de Montréal - Montreal City of Music 2004
		Louis Lortie is one of the best-known Québécois pianists in Canada and abroad.
		Lortie has completed, with the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague, a series of three recordings of all of Franz Liszt's works for piano and orchestra-a project that has received many accolades.
		Lortie performed, in just a few days, all five piano concertos with the OSM, all 32 piano sonatas, and the entire violin/piano, cello/piano and piano/trio repertoire with violinist James Ehnes and cellist Jan Vogler.
	radio-canada.ca /radio/montrealmusic/osm.html (1630 words)

	Louis Lortie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lortie has performed the complete works of Ravel in London and Montreal for the BBC and CBC, and is also known for his interpretation of Chopin.
		Lortie replaced Martha Argerich with Charles Dutoit and the New York Philharmonic, and after one of his Philharmonic evening performances he performed a long-scheduled recital at the Metropolitan Museum.
		Lortie will play and conduct the 27 Mozart Piano Concertos with the Montreal Symphony, culminating in 2006, the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth.
	www.carnegiehall.org /textSite/box_office/events/evt_4861.html (3367 words)

	Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Louis Lortie was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1992.
		Canadian pianist Louis Lortie has performed with many of the world’s top orchestras including, most recently, the Philadelphia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony and Dresden Staatskapelle under eminent conductors such as Vladimr Ashkenazy, Andrew Davis, Neeme Järvi and Leonard Slatkin.
		Louis Lortie’s recordings of Ravel received unanimously excellent critical acclaim, and count amongst the finest versions ever committed to disc.
	www.chandos-records.com /biog05.asp?PeopleID=2621 (259 words)

	Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One of the outstanding pianists of his generation, Louis Lortie has performed with the world’s leading orchestras, collaborating with many distinguished conductors including Charles Dutoit, Seiji Ozawa and Wolfgang Sawallisch.
		In September 1984 Louis Lortie was a prizewinner in the Leeds International Competition.
		Mr Lortie’s current recital programmes – and recording plans – place special emphasis on Beethoven: in 1991 his Chandos disc of the composer’s Eroica Variations (CHAN 8616) received the coveted Edison Award.
	www.chandos-records.com /Biogs/LouisLortie.asp (470 words)

	Louis Lortie, Piano
		Canadian Pianist Louis Lortie, who studied in Montreal and Vienna, before studying with Artur Schnabel’s student, Leon Fleisher, has performed complete works of Ravel, interpretations of Beethoven (all concertos, sonatas, and trios), Chopin, Brahms, Schumann, and that of contemporary composers, such as Carter.
		Louis Lortie, a most attractive and poised performer, performing on a Fazioli piano, selected known and lesser know waltzes for his Carnegie Hall recital of French or French-inspired works.
		Kudos to Louis Lortie and his concept of a nurturing night of wondrous waltzes.
	www.robertaonthearts.com /id299.html (417 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		On occasion, to be sure, Louis Lortie bursts his bubble of inhibition when he plays alone, such as in the E-flat Concerto's opening cadenza and the lyrical passages contained in the second section's L'istesso Tempo.
		Lortie invariably proves less engaged with what he's doing, and consequently he's less interesting, more matter-of-fact.
		Lortie, for instance, imparts no trace of urgency and line in the slurred passages from measure 513 on, and the glissandos have none of Richter's thunderous thrust.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=4937 (308 words)

	MRI - Affaires publiques
		The Québec Government Office in London is livening up the cultural season this autumn by celebrating the presence in the UK of the pianist Louis Lortie and the dance company Foundation Jean-Pierre Perreault.
		Prizewinner at the Leeds International Piano Competition and at the Busoni Competition in Italy, Louis Lortie has performed with many of the world’s top orchestras and gives regular recitals at both the Wigmore Hall and the South Bank Centre in London.
		Louis Lortie has also made over 30 recordings, many of which have won international awards.
	www.mri.gouv.qc.ca /london/en/delegation/affaires_publiques/Salle_nouvelles/culture.asp (304 words)

	Canadian pianist Louis Lortie in Australia
		The Canadian Consulate General is pleased to announce that Canadian pianist Louis Lortie will return to Australia in November for a series of performances in Brisbane and Sydney.
		Following his debut with the Montréal Symphony, M. Lortie has gone on to perform with the world's leading orchestras, including the Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia Orchestras, the Royal Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and the BBC and London Symphony Orchestras amongst others.
		In recognition of his services to music, Louis Lortie was named Officer of the Order of Canada in 1992.
	www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /australia/lortie-en.asp (318 words)

	DAILY BRUIN ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lortie's fountain of youth is 27 pieces of treacherous piano music, Chopin's etudes, to be performed Sunday night in Schoenberg Hall.
		Lortie had learned all the pieces by the age 20, inspired by the 14- year-olds he met in Vienna who had already mastered them.
		The etudes are Lortie's signature program and for good reason: the pieces are crowd favorites because of flying hands and great tunes.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/printable.asp?id=21049&date=10/11/2002 (511 words)

	Intermusica Artists' Management Limited / Piano / Louis Lortie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lortie performed Beethovenâs 32 sonatas for piano; ten sonatas for violin and piano, five sonatas for cello and piano; and six trios for piano, violin and cello with violinist James Ehnes and cellist Jan Vogler.
		In late April, Mr Lortie made history while replacing Martha Argerich with Charles Dutoit and the New York Philharmonic: after one of his Philharmonic evening performances he rushed across Central Park and performed a long-scheduled recital at the Metropolitan Museum.
		Mr Lortie has made over 30 recordings on the Chandos label, ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky.Â His recording of Beethovenâs Eroica Variations won the Edison Award, and his disc of Schumannâs Bunte Blatter and other works by Schumann and Brahms was named one of the best CDs of the year by BBC Music Magazine.
	www.intermusica.co.uk /artists/Piano/Louis-Lortie/biography/1542.aspx (615 words)

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		Known for his original interpretations of a wide range of standard piano repertoire, Canadian pianist Louis Lortie continues to leave his mark on the classical piano canon, particularly the music of Chopin and Beethoven.
		Lortie has performed works of contemporary composers such as Kurtag (a Bach/Kurtag program at Columbia University), Carter (his “Night Fantasies” on tour this season), and Adés (the German premiere of his piano quintet at the Moritzburg Festival).
		Lortie will play and conduct the 27 Mozart Piano Concertos with the Montreal Symphony, culminating in 2006, the 250 th anniversary of Mozart’s birth.
	www.orsymphony.org /news/0405/0903_C2_rachmaninoff.html (1236 words)

	Lortie Louis Lortie. Pianist. To Order Louis Lortie's Recordings Online, Click On. Click On Topic Or Scr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lortie opens the hour with music by Beethoven from one of his Chandos recordings.
		A corporal with the Royal 22nd Regiment of the Canadian Armed Forces, Lortie was disgruntled with a number of policies of the Quebec and national.
		Andrée Nicole Lortie is a Spiritual medium, a visionary and conscious creator, a writer and a certified IET-Integrated.
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	A&L Performing Arts News Release - Louis Lortie
		A favorite among European music audiences, the French Canadian piano virtuoso Louis Lortie makes his Santa Barbara debut performance in Louis Lortie Plays Chopin, a program of works by one of the most beloved piano composers of all time, on Wednesday, November 10 at 8 p.m.
		Lortie’s Santa Barbara concert is part of an all-Chopin tour that began with a BBC-broadcast concert at London’s Wigmore Hall and a concert on London’s International Piano Series at the South Bank Centre.
		Lortie began playing piano at age 7 in his native Montreal.
	www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu /archive/1999-2000/pr/lortie.htm (552 words)

	Gramophone - News - The world's best classical music magazine
		The starting time for pianist Louis Lortie’s New York recital tonight at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has shifted from 8pm to 8.15 — maybe 8.20 or 8.25 if the traffic is bad.
		That’s because Lortie will be rushing to the museum from Lincoln Center, where he is replacing Martha Argerich in the Schumann Piano Concerto with the New York Philharmonic and conductor Charles Dutoit.
		Claims to spontaneity notwithstanding, Lortie does confess that, given Argerich’s reputation for cancellations, his management had first inquired about the possibility with the Philharmonic months ago.
	www.gramophone.co.uk /newsMainTemplate.asp?storyID=2104&newssectionID=1 (354 words)

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