Dr. Eric Brisson

Canadian pianist Eric Brisson holds a doctorate in piano interpretation from the University of Montréal (2000), where he studied with Marc Durand. He also has worked with Leon Fleisher and Marek Jablonski at the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto), where he was enrolled in a special master class program (1991-1997). Dr. Brisson has been performing in Canada since 1989 and has been a laureate in several national-level music competitions, among others the Canadian Music Competition (1st Prize winner in 1991 and 1992) and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition (3rd Prize, junior category, 1991). He has appeared as a soloist with the Canadian Music Competition Orchestra and the Sherbrooke Youth Orchestra, and has performed numerous recitals in Montreal and Québec City, some of them radiobroadcasted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Dr. Brisson also has an interest in information technologies related to music. In 2001, he created and developed Pianopedia, an internet search engine dedicated to classical piano music, which now receives approximately 20000 visitors monthly. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from McGill University, completed in 2002. Since moving to Winona in 2002, Dr. Brisson has been active both as accompanist and as teacher, and has been soloist with the Winona Symphony Orchestra, the Symphonic Wind Ensemble of Winona State University, and Chamber Music Winona.