Concert pianist. Professor @uOttawa. Québécois rapatrié après un long exil. Balivernes dans les deux langues officielles. He/him. IG @davidjalbertpianiste
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Prokofiev’s lyrical, late masterpiece, where each movement foreshadows the next
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🎹David Jalbert completes his series of Prokofiev piano sonatas
🎼Jalbert was named one of the 15 greatest Canadian pianists of all time, according to the CBC.
👉Learn more about this Prokofiev concert. : themontrealeronline.com/4bep
#Montreal @SalleBourgie @JalbertDavid #Prokofiev
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The Trump administration is rolling out a new narrative about its aid program: Aid continues! More effective than ever! Trade over aid!
And it's nonsense. Trump and Musk destroyed a program that was saving a life once every 10 seconds on average. This has been Trump's most lethal policy, and now he's doubling down by withholding vaccines from poor countries -- like a $3 vaccine against malaria, and a $4 vaccine against cervical cancer. Some 600,000 will die just from that.
"Trade over aid" sounds fine, but what it means in practice is that if Zambia doesn't agree to sell copper and cobalt to American companies, we'll withhold lifesaving aid from Zambian villagers.
Here's my column on the hollowness of Trump's attempt to dress up his destruction of humanitarian aid, after a year to assess results: nytimes.com/2026/05/09/opini…
DEVIL: I will make you the luckiest tennis player alive!
JANNIK SINNER: Wow thanks
DEVIL: But you have to wear this kit
#AustralianOpen
The first excerpt of the new album is out: the Finale of Prokofiev’s Sonata no. 8! 🎹 music.apple.com/ca/album/pia…
Yes but have you heard it played badly
First 8 bars of Chopin's Ballade No. 3 are the most perfect bars. The extraordinary sense of perfect balance - the harmony is going to the dominant, and the resolution, and back again. It's ever so simple. And how the voices answer one another.
The piece could have ended here and we would say "That was beautiful"
A perfect start to the piece full of love.
It was so fun performing Rachmaninov 3rd with Orchestra Toronto! The last 10 minutes now in their YouTube page:
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LIVE performance of a piece I composed for the AMAZING @JalbertDavid! This concert, presented by Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur, took place in Montreal last December.
WATCH🎶📽…
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The YouTube page has been pimped up a bit, especially the playlists, for better access to my ATMA Classique recordings. Check it out! youtube.com/@davidjalbertpia…
I think we’re about to find out what some classical musicians are prepared to stoop to in order to get a gig… #KennedyCenter
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Colwood, a B.C. city, his hired a doctor on the municipal payroll in bid to attract more. All 8 physicians at a new clinic will be paid as municipal employees, with full benefits, vacation and pension, by Michelle Gomez cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c… via @cbcnews #PrimaryCare
I think it was in Kevin Bazzana’s Gould biography that I learned that Gould thought Mozart was a bad composer and sought to prove it with his (awful) recording or some of the Sonatas
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.@JalbertDavid rehearsal of my composition Un Fleuve sans fin! He performs that along with Bach, Chopin and Prokofiev at his recital at Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur concert next Wed Dec 4. If you're in Montreal then, please attend. More info here: montreal.ca/evenements/recit…
Jaeden Izik-Dzurko 🇨🇦 just won LEEDS!!!(@leedspiano) on a fabulous tear after winning SANTANDER and MONTREAL
…on the heels of Kevin Chen 🇨🇦 winning RUBINSTEIN and GENEVA and LISZT
…and @Bruceliupiano 🇨🇦 winning CHOPIN
Canada on a historic run in major piano competitions!
Recorded the 3rd and final volume of my Complete #Prokofiev Sonatas for ATMA Classique this week at the Isabel Bader Performing Arts Centre - here’s a bit of Sonata no. 8 🎹
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Best wishes to @JalbertDavid for a wonderful performance @ Concerts aux Îles du Bic. Gala opening of the festival includes the world premiere of a solo 🎹 work I composed for David all about the St. Lawrence River. David's interpretation is stunning! ❤ concertsauxilesdubic.org/con…
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Huge privilege to meet up with concert pianist extraordinaire, @JalbertDavid in Ottawa to review my composition he commissioned, ‘Un fleuve sans fin / A River Without End’. Learn more about my journey up the St. Lawrence in creating this music here: frankhorvat.com/composing/pr…
