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Marc-André Hamelin, OC, OQ (born September 5, 1961) is a Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer [1] who has received 11 Grammy Award nominations. [2] He is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music .
In 2018 Richard-Hamelin and Andrew Wan released an album, Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 6, 7 & 8; [17] in 2019 it was nominated for a Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year. [18] In February 2019, Richard-Hamelin gave a solo performance at Koerner Hall in Toronto, which was recorded by CBC Radio 2. [3]
Hamelin co-wrote, produced and mixed the Leikeli47 track "Chain Gang" for the soundtrack to the 2018 film Uncle Drew. [ 12 ] Hamelin produced 9 songs on 070 Shake 's 2020 album Modus Vivendi [ 13 ] and was an executive producer on her sophomore album You Can't Kill Me , [ 14 ] contributing to every song on the album.
Circus Galop is a piece written for player pianos by Marc-André Hamelin. It was composed between the years 1991 and 1994 and is dedicated to Beatrix and Jürgen Hocker, piano roll makers. Its duration is approximately 4–5 minutes. [ 1 ]
In 2000, Dominic Viola joined Moonraker, a rock band from Montreal started in 1997 by Brais, Hamelin, Joly and Williamson. After some initial success, including winning the CHOM L'Esprit in 2001, [1] the band moved to Toronto in 2003. [2] In 2005, the band signed with Universal Music Group Canada and Interscope and changed their name to Mobile.
Their version reached #87 on the Billboard Hot 100. [2] However, when British pop singer Crispian St. Peters recorded it, he scored a major hit during the summer of 1966. It went to #4 in the United States, #5 in the United Kingdom, and #1 in Canada. [3] [4]
Corigliano partially based the form of the work on Robert Browning's narrative poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," arguably the most famous version of the tale. However, the composer altered the narrative to better fit a musical setting, explaining, "The biggest problem was that the legend per se had no elements of virtuosity in it; the Pied ...
"The Piper" is a track from the 1980 album Super Trouper, by Swedish pop group ABBA. The song is loosely based on the famous story of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, but lyricist Björn Ulvaeus cites the novel The Stand by Stephen King as a source of inspiration. [2]