Live @ Baruch Performing Arts Center’s Engelman Recital Hall
55 Lexington Avenue, New York
Audience entrance on East 25th Street between Lexington & 3rd Avenues
BIO
Canadian pianist Roger Lord from Moncton, New Brunswick, has won First Prizes in piano in the Canadian Music Competition as well as in the Canadian National Festival of Music. He toured extensively with Jeunesses Musicales playing over 120 concerts in Canada and in Europe between 1987 and 1992. His various engagements have since taken him to some of the world's great cities such as Paris, Oslo, Vienna, Parma, Montreal, Melbourne, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Santiago de Chile, Quito, Istanbul, Cairo, Tunis, Riyadh, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Saigon, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, etc. He has performed as a soloist with orchestra on four continents. In 2004, he released an award-winning CD of piano music by Louisiana composer and virtuoso Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Hailed at the “Piano Prince of Canada” by the China Daily, Roger Lord was one of the guest artists on one of the prestigious Chinese New Year TV Galas broadcast for hundreds of millions of viewers in 2013. In that same year, with his CD entitled Chinese Treasures which was recorded in Beijing, he became the First non- Chinese pianist in the world to release a CD of Chinese piano music. He has travelled 32 times to China and was named one of “150 illustrious Canadian things and people” on the popular Chinese website Sina Weibo. Dr. Lord served as an adjudicator for several national and international music competitions in Canada, USA, Malaysia, and Australia. He studied in Canada at Université de Moncton, McGill University, Université de Montréal as well as in Paris and Strasbourg, France. He also attended special summer sessions of the Moscow Piano Institute in Russia at the Gnessin Music Academy. He holds a Doctorate degree in Music and is presently Professor of Piano at the Université de Moncton.