Pierre-André Doucet

Pianist, writer, and arts leader Pierre-André Doucet is a unique figure in Canada’s cultural landscape. Praised for the emotion of his playing and his impeccable control, he has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and vocal accompanist throughout Canada, Europe, South Africa and the United States, as well as aboard several Holland America Line ships as a Lincoln Center Stage artist. He is the Artistic Director of Barachois Summer Music, in his native New Brunswick, and previously helmed the Frye Festival, Atlantic Canada’s largest literary festival, as it successfully navigated the tumult of 2021 and 2022. In 2023, he was also the artistic director of Une maison traversée at Montréal’s Festival international de littérature.

Winner of the Knigge Piano Competition and the Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition (with soprano Alexandra Smither), he has also been a prizewinner at the Prix d’Europe, the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto’s Career Development Award Competition, and the Ibiza International Piano Competition.

He is the acclaimed author of Sorta comme si on était déjà là (2012) and Des dick pics sous les étoiles (2020), both published by Prise de parole, and he recently became the first and only writer to have ever been a three-time finalist in literature at the Jeux de la Francophonie (Beyrouth 2009, Nice 2013, Kinshasa 2023). Further works have been published, in English and French, by Ancrages, Art Song Canada Magazine, Impossible Archetypes, and Voix plurielles.

Pierre-André Doucet is a graduate of the McGill-UdeM Piano-Vocal Arts Residency’s first cohort. He holds a doctoral degree in piano performance from l’Université de Montréal, where he has also been a guest professor, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Performance in collaborative piano from McGill University. He has taken part in masterclasses at the Franz-Schubert-Institut, the Music Academy of the West, and the Tanglewood Music Center. Through the years, his artistic projects have received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Fonds de recherche du Québec en société et culture, the New Brunswick Arts Board, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.