Dr. Anne Louise-Turgeon
DMA, Yale University School of Music
Adjunct Instructor
DMA, Yale University School of Music
Adjunct Instructor
Areas of Expertise
• Piano
• Chamber Music
• Piano
• Chamber Music
Dr. Anne Louise-Turgeon
Anne Louise-Turgeon enjoys a busy career as
soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue. She has performed hundreds
of concerts on several continents. She has appeared with many
orchestras including the Toronto Symphony, National Arts Centre
Orchestra and the New World Symphony. Ms. Louise-Turgeon is a prize
winner of the Canadian Music Competition, Sydney International
Piano Competition and the Cleveland International Piano
Competition. She is a recipient of a Government of Canada Award for
Achievement in the Arts, and an Ontario Arts Council Chalmers Grant
for post graduate studies with a master teacher.
As a member of the piano duo "Duo Turgeon", with her husband Edward, Ms. Louise-Turgeon has performed in many prestigious festivals and halls including the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, to name a few. Performing together since 1995, the Duo Turgeon has enjoyed much critical acclaim, including articles in publications such as "La Scena Musicale" and "Les Grandes Pianistes et le Piano" describing the duo as "among the top four of five piano duos of our time". The duo's achievements include first prize in the International Schubert Competition for Piano Duos (Czech Republic, 1995) and first prize in the Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition (Miami, 1997), widely respected as the largest, most important duo piano competition in the world. Ms. Louise-Turgeon's additional Dranoff awards include special prizes for best one piano, four-hand performances, and best performance of John Corigliano's "Chiaroscuro", commissioned by the Dranoff Foundation for the 1997 competition. As part of the latter prize, Louise-Turgeon was invited to record Chiaroscuro for the Vanguard Classics label, a world premiere recording heralded by American Record Guide as having "hypnotic intensity".
Over the past five years, Louise-Turgeon's prolific recording activities included CD's on the Marquis Classics / EMI, Vanguard Classics, Dranoff Foundation, ClassXdiscs, and Albany labels. Of these recordings, "Romantic Dances" received a "CD of the month" designation from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's "Galaxie.com". The CD "New Music For Two Pianos" was designated "classical chamber music CD of the year". Upcoming recording projects include a CD of two piano works by Johannes Brahms, and a CD of works for two pianos by Latin-American composers.
Louise-Turgeon's performances have been heard in hundreds of radio broadcasts worldwide, including several appearances on National Public Radio's "Performance Today". She is a featured performer in the PBS documentary "Two Pianos - One Passion".
Anne Louise-Turgeon earned a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance, and the Eaton graduating scholarship (highest graduating award) from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music (1989), where she studied with Marietta Orlov. Post graduate studies with Boris Berman at Yale University School of Music led to successful completion of Master of Music (1993) Master of Musical Arts (1994) and Doctor of Musical Arts (2000) degrees in piano performance. Louise-Turgeon received the school's highest graduating prize, the Dean's Award, as well as the Charles Miller Scholarship for best recital.
Anne Louise-Turgeon received additional solo and four-hand coaching with Karl Ulrich-Schnabel and Peter Serkin. Summer studies included master classes at the Banff Centre for Fine Arts (1986 - 1990) with Marek Jablonski, Jean Paul Sevilla, and Claude Frank. She participated in master classes with Gyorgy Sandor, Karl-Heinz Kammerling, John Perry and John O'Conor at the Holland Music Sessions (1993). Summer chamber music studies included master classes with Lorand Fenyves at Banff Centre, a fellowship at Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and intensive training at the Jeunesses Musicales International Summer Chamber Music Course and Festival in Weikersheim, Germany, where Ms. Louise-Turgeon enjoyed the opportunity to work with members of the Bavarian Radio and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras.
Louise-Turgeon has served as instructor of piano at Mount Holyoke College, as well as chamber music artist faculty and associate professor of music at the Harid Conservatory. Since 1998, she has served as adjunct keyboard faculty at Florida Atlantic University's School of The Arts, Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Boca Raton. A senior member of the Royal Conservatory of Music College of Examiners, Ms. Louise-Turgeon is well known in her native Canada as an examiner and adjudicator, encouraging young talent since 1990.
Ms. Louise-Turgeon is founder and conductor of the Palm Beach Sinfonietta, and a member of South Florida's Chameleon Chamber Ensemble. Louise-Turgeon's upcoming concert activities include performances with Chameleon at Fort Lauderdale's Leiser Opera Center, and Duo Turgeon performances in Canada, Connecticut, Texas, Maine, California, as well as Radisson's Seven Seas Navigator during a summer 2004 cruise to Iceland, Greenland and the Canadian Maritimes.
As a member of the piano duo "Duo Turgeon", with her husband Edward, Ms. Louise-Turgeon has performed in many prestigious festivals and halls including the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, to name a few. Performing together since 1995, the Duo Turgeon has enjoyed much critical acclaim, including articles in publications such as "La Scena Musicale" and "Les Grandes Pianistes et le Piano" describing the duo as "among the top four of five piano duos of our time". The duo's achievements include first prize in the International Schubert Competition for Piano Duos (Czech Republic, 1995) and first prize in the Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition (Miami, 1997), widely respected as the largest, most important duo piano competition in the world. Ms. Louise-Turgeon's additional Dranoff awards include special prizes for best one piano, four-hand performances, and best performance of John Corigliano's "Chiaroscuro", commissioned by the Dranoff Foundation for the 1997 competition. As part of the latter prize, Louise-Turgeon was invited to record Chiaroscuro for the Vanguard Classics label, a world premiere recording heralded by American Record Guide as having "hypnotic intensity".
Over the past five years, Louise-Turgeon's prolific recording activities included CD's on the Marquis Classics / EMI, Vanguard Classics, Dranoff Foundation, ClassXdiscs, and Albany labels. Of these recordings, "Romantic Dances" received a "CD of the month" designation from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's "Galaxie.com". The CD "New Music For Two Pianos" was designated "classical chamber music CD of the year". Upcoming recording projects include a CD of two piano works by Johannes Brahms, and a CD of works for two pianos by Latin-American composers.
Louise-Turgeon's performances have been heard in hundreds of radio broadcasts worldwide, including several appearances on National Public Radio's "Performance Today". She is a featured performer in the PBS documentary "Two Pianos - One Passion".
Anne Louise-Turgeon earned a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance, and the Eaton graduating scholarship (highest graduating award) from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music (1989), where she studied with Marietta Orlov. Post graduate studies with Boris Berman at Yale University School of Music led to successful completion of Master of Music (1993) Master of Musical Arts (1994) and Doctor of Musical Arts (2000) degrees in piano performance. Louise-Turgeon received the school's highest graduating prize, the Dean's Award, as well as the Charles Miller Scholarship for best recital.
Anne Louise-Turgeon received additional solo and four-hand coaching with Karl Ulrich-Schnabel and Peter Serkin. Summer studies included master classes at the Banff Centre for Fine Arts (1986 - 1990) with Marek Jablonski, Jean Paul Sevilla, and Claude Frank. She participated in master classes with Gyorgy Sandor, Karl-Heinz Kammerling, John Perry and John O'Conor at the Holland Music Sessions (1993). Summer chamber music studies included master classes with Lorand Fenyves at Banff Centre, a fellowship at Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and intensive training at the Jeunesses Musicales International Summer Chamber Music Course and Festival in Weikersheim, Germany, where Ms. Louise-Turgeon enjoyed the opportunity to work with members of the Bavarian Radio and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras.
Louise-Turgeon has served as instructor of piano at Mount Holyoke College, as well as chamber music artist faculty and associate professor of music at the Harid Conservatory. Since 1998, she has served as adjunct keyboard faculty at Florida Atlantic University's School of The Arts, Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Boca Raton. A senior member of the Royal Conservatory of Music College of Examiners, Ms. Louise-Turgeon is well known in her native Canada as an examiner and adjudicator, encouraging young talent since 1990.
Ms. Louise-Turgeon is founder and conductor of the Palm Beach Sinfonietta, and a member of South Florida's Chameleon Chamber Ensemble. Louise-Turgeon's upcoming concert activities include performances with Chameleon at Fort Lauderdale's Leiser Opera Center, and Duo Turgeon performances in Canada, Connecticut, Texas, Maine, California, as well as Radisson's Seven Seas Navigator during a summer 2004 cruise to Iceland, Greenland and the Canadian Maritimes.
