Duo Pianists
Rosemarie Duval-Laplante & Jean-Michel Dubé
St. James Church / Église St-James
642 Main, Hudson
November 16, 2025 / le 16 novembre 2025
4 pm / 16 h 00 * 25$
The piano duo of Rosemarie Duval-Laplante and Jean-Michel Dubé was formed in 2017. Both graduates of the Conservatoire de musique de Québec, they charm audiences with their charisma and stand out for their musical ideas and intimate sharing of the instrument. Their great complicity, on stage and in life, translates into sensitive playing and a remarkable unity of sound. Since its formation, the duo has distinguished itself both in Canada and internationally.
The duo recorded the world première of André Mathieu’s Concertino No 2 for two pianos on an album of Jean-Michel Dubé which was released in 2018 on the Espace-21 label. And in 2022, the pair released their first album for piano four hands, dedicated to the music of Fauré and Debussy on the Espace-21 label.
For this recital, the piano duo transports us to the belle époque, with music by Ravel, Gershwin, Fauré & Barber.
Programme
George Gershwin – 3 Preludes
Gabriel Fauré – Pavane
Claude Debussy – Petite Suite
Samuel Barber – Hesitation Tango
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BIOGRAPHIES
Rosemarie Duval-Laplante
Rosemarie Duval-Laplante stands out for her sensitivity, refined sound, and passionate, spirited playing. Winner of first prizes at the Concours du Royaume in Saguenay and the Concours Pierre-de-Saurel in Sorel, she has performed as a soloist with the Budweis Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre du Conservatoire de musique de Québec, and as a duet player with Les Violons du Roy and the Orchestre symphonique du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean.
Passionate about chamber music, she has collaborated with various ensembles, including Les Violons du Roy. In 2017, she formed a four-hand piano duo with pianist Jean-Michel Dubé. This duo, who has two Jeunesses Musicales Canada tours to its credit, has performed in France, including a concert at the Musée de Port-Royal, and in Switzerland, and has been invited by France Musique to play live on air in Paris. They were also chosen to represent Canada at Jeunesses Musicales International’s 75th anniversary in 2020.
Rosemarie has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and has studied with several internationally renowned pianists, both as a soloist and as a four-hand performer. She was also a teacher and accompanist at the Conservatoire de musique de Saguenay from 2018 to 2021.
Jean-Michel Dubé
Winner of the German Piano Open, recipient of the grand prize from the Canimex Canadian Music Competition (Stepping Stone), winner of the Prix d’Europe, and finalist at the Festival international de musique de Paris and the Italian Piana Del Cavaliere Piano Competition, Jean-Michel Dubé has performed across Canada, France and Switzerland.
As a concert pianist, he has collaborated with the Orchestre symphonique de l’Estuaire, the Orchestre symphonique de Drummondville, the German Piano Open Competition Orchestra, Les Violons du Roy, the Orchestre de la Francophonie, the Orchestre des jeunes de Montréal, the Canadian Music Competition Orchestra, and the Orchestre Philharmonia Mundi de Montréal. He has worked with the conductors Dina Gilbert, Julien Proulx, Henri Sigfridsson, Mathieu Lussier, Daniel Missyk, Louis Lavigueur, Uri Mayer, Jean-Pascal Hamelin, and Hubert Tanguay-Labrosse.
As a chamber musician, he has recorded André Mathieu’s chamber music with the chamber musicians of Les Violons du Roy, and he collaborates with various ensembles. As a duo player, he collaborates with Rosemarie Duval-Laplante on piano four hands and Dominique Beauséjour-Ostiguy on cello (Hudson, March 2023).
A graduate of the Conservatoire de musique de Québec in Suzanne Beaubien’s class, Jean-Michel Dubé has had the honour of playing privately for pianists Evgeny Kissin and Garrick Ohlsson. He has benefited from the mentoring of pianist Philippe Cassard for his solo work and of Hervé Billaut for duos.