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Christina Bouey, violin
Pierre-André Doucet, piano
Two extraordinary Atlantic Canadians join forces to bring their musical gifts back home! Debut Atlantic
has teamed up PEI violinist Christina Bouey and New Brunswick pianist Pierre-André Doucet for a special
program sure to lift your spirits. Two musical powerhouses, this duo is sure to ignite the stage!
Canadian violinist, Christina Bouey, is hailed by the New York Times for playing “beautifully,” by the
New York Post, “When violinist Christina Bouey spun out that shimmering tune, I thought I died and
went to heaven,” and by Opera News, for playing “with exquisite, quivering beauty.” Among her awards
and prizes include the Canada Council of the Arts Instrument Bank, Hugo Kortchak Award for
outstanding achievement in chamber music, Heida Hermann International, Canadian National Music
Festival, Queens Concerto Competition, and the Balsam Duo Competition.
Christina has performed as soloist with the Tonkünstler Ensemble, Metro Chamber Orchestra, Bergen
Symphony, Manhattan School of Music Orchestra, Prince Edward Island Symphony, Banff Orchestra,
Shattered Glass and the Hemenway Strings. Her solo and chamber performance credits include Carnegie
Hall, Esterházy Palace, Yamaha Center Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard Club of New
York, the Chromatic Club of Boston, and the Indian River Festival. Christina has collaborated with artists
such as Jeremy Denk, Paul Coletti, Lynn Chang, David Geber, Clive Greensmith, Joji Hattori, Nicholas
Mann, Irina Muresanu, and Bright Sheng.
Christina graduated from Manhattan School of Music (2013) with a Professional Studies Certificate in
Orchestral Performance, studying with Glenn Dicterow and Lisa Kim as a full scholarship student, (2012)
with a Professional Studies Certificate, studying with Laurie Smukler, and in 2011 she received a Master
of Music, while studying with Nicholas Mann. Her Bachelor of Music (Magnum cum laude) is from The
Boston Conservatory; where she studied with Irina Muresanu as a full-scholarship student. In her spare
time, following in her parents footsteps, Christina enjoys singing coloratura arias by Mozart, Gounod and
Donizetti, and has won first prize for her singing in the PEI Music Festival.
In June 2014, as part of the 150 year celebrations on PEI, Juilliard dancers performed a modern dance to
her first compositional commission for solo violin, with Christina playing it on the violin. Christina is
currently serving as concertmaster of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and is a member/founder of the
Ulysses String Quartet (2016 BISQC Finalist). She plays a 1900 Scarampella on generous loan from the
Canada Council Instrument Bank.
Praised for his colourful playing and fascinating writing, pianist and author Pierre-André Doucet is one
of Canada’s most captivating young artists. Mr. Doucet premiered with Symphony New Brunswick in
2007, under maestro Airat Ichmouratov, and has since performed with several orchestras in Quebec and
South Africa. An engaging chamber musician and collaborative pianist, he recently won a position in the
inaugural Lincoln Center Stage piano quintet aboard the MS Koningsdam, a collaboration between the
Lincoln Center of New York and Holland America Line.
In addition to having been heard on Radio-Canada, Espace musique, and CBC Radio’s Next! series, Mr.
Doucet has also been featured on CBC Radio 2’s list of 30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians Under 30.
Furthermore, recent musical projects have seen him perform across Canada, as well as to Austria,
France, Germany, South Africa, Spain and the United States.
Winner of the prestigious Knigge Piano Competition, the Auditions Jeunes Artistes de Radio-Canada and
the Atlantic Young Artist Competition, Mr. Doucet has also been a prize-winner at the Women’s Musical
Club of Toronto Career Development Award Competition, the National Music Festival, the Canadian
Music Competition, and the CFMTA National Piano Competition. His evocative and compelling readings
of contemporary scores also make him a refreshing and vital musician, and have seen him awarded the
Best Performance of Contemporary Music Prize at the Ibiza International Piano Competition, the Best
Performance of a Canadian Work Prize at the Prix d’Europe, as well as the Dorothy Buckley Prize for the
Interpretation of Canadian Music. In fact, his ardent work in disseminating new music have led him to
premiere works by Canadian composers J. Mitchell Burke, Richard Gibson, Pierre Michaud and Jared
Miller, Cuban composer Evelin Ramon, American composers Mark Carlson and Libby Larsen, and South
African composer Hendrik Hofmeyr.
An alumnus of the Order of Canada Mentorship Program, Mr. Doucet holds a Master’s in Piano
Performance from the Université de Montréal, where he is currently a doctoral candidate under the
tutelage of Maneli Pirzadeh. Previously, he studied with Richard Boulanger at l’Université de Moncton.
He has received financial support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
(Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship), the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and
the New Brunswick Arts Council.
Mr. Doucet has also perfected his craft and performed at the Tanglewood Music Center, Music Academy
of the West, the Franz-Schubert-Institut, the Tuckamore Chamber Music Festival, the Orford Festival,
the Gijòn International Piano Festival, the Internationaler Klaviersommer Bad Bertrich, Opera on the
Avalon, the Vancouver International Song Institute and as recipient of a Stern Fellowship at Songfest.
Through these experiences, he has benefited from masterclasses with such eminent artists as Marc
Durand, David Jalbert, Robert Koenig, Robert MacDonald, John Perry and Paul Stewart (piano), and Elly
Ameling, John Churchwell, Helmut Deutsch, Julius Drake, Margo Garrett, Kenneth Griffiths, Linda Hall,
Andrew Harley, Robert Holl, Marilyn Horne, Kayo Iwama, Rudolf Jansen, Graham Johnson, Warren
Jones, Kiri Te Kanawa, Martin Katz, Jonathan Kelly, Laura Loewen, Christa Ludwig, Carrie-Ann Matheson,
Michael McMahon, Francis Perron, Rena Sharon, Alan L. Smith, Cameron Stowe, Sanford Sylvan, Liz
Upchurch, Dawn Upshaw, Roger Vignoles, Howard Watkins and Robin Wheeler (vocal piano).
As a writer, Pierre-André Doucet has been awarded the Antonine Maillet-Acadie Vie Literary Award for
Kilométrage (Prix Volet jeunesse Richelieu). His first collection of poetry and short stories, Sorta comme
si on était déjà là (Éditions Prise de parole), was shortlisted for the Prix littéraire Émie-Ollivier, and
earned him the Discovery of the Year award at the Gala des Prix Éloizes.