Jean-Philippe Sylvestre

Jean-Philippe Sylvestre is the laureate of the prestigious Virginia Parker Prize 2008, the highest distinction from the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2000 at the age of 17, pianist Jean-Philippe Sylvestre won first prize at the prestigious Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition, as well as the People’s Choice Award at the same competition. He is also laureate of the Young Performer Competition and Concertino Praga International Competition. He was three times recipient of the 1st prize at the Canadian music competition, and at one of these occasions, was the recipient of the highest score of the entire competition. He performs regularly as a soloist and recitalist across Canada, United States, South America and Europe. He is the recipient of the studio-prize Paris residency 2016 from the Quebec Council for the art. Mr. Sylvestre has played with conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Richard Bradshaw, Simon Streatfeild, Alain Trudel, Fabien Gabel, and Rolf Bertsch. Famous conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin qualifies him as a “poet of the piano”. He has appeared at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, the Fundação de Educação Artística in Belo Horizonte in Brasil, at the Wilfrid-Pelletier Hall, Pierre-Mercure Hall in Montreal, the Glenn Gould Studio and the George Weston Hall in Toronto, the National Art Centre of Ottawa. Recently, he has performed with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec in Quebec City, at the Bourgie Hall in Montreal, at the Auditorium St-Pierre des cuisines in Toulouse, and at the Cortot Hall in Paris.