Piano Four Hands
Deanne Mohr & Eric Brisson
Thursday, February 20, 2024 | 7p - 8:30p
Winona’s famous piano duo brings us ‘en bateau’ (French for ‘in a boat’) through a romantic program exploring water, boat rides, and beautiful melodies. The Minnesota Marine Art Museum’s new rotating exhibit Fluid: What is Marine Art and What Can it Be?, offers a companion to the music that invokes images of Venetian gondoliers and rocking, swaying vessels in which audiences can envision themselves sailing on majestic waters.
DEBUSSY: Petite Suite
FAURÉ: Barcarolle, Op. 26
RACHMANINOFF: Barcarolle, Op. 11
CHOPIN: Barcarolle, Op. 60
SCHUBERT: Fantasie in f minor, Op. 11
Single Concert Tickets
Tickets: $25
MMAM Members: $20
Students: $5
Season Tickets (4 concerts)
Tickets: $90
MMAM Members: $70
Students: $10
About the Musicians
Deanne Mohr
Canadian pianist Deanne Mohr received her Bachelor of Music degree with great distinction from the University of Regina while under the tutelage of William Moore. She pursued graduate studies with Marc Durand at the University of Montréal, receiving a doctorate in piano performance in 2000. Her doctoral studies included research of her thesis topic: the philosophical doctrine of Alexander Scriabin and its manifestation in his late piano sonatas.
Additional guidance has been provided to her through master classes and the Banff Centre of the Arts’ summer programs, in which she worked with Jane Coop, Jon Kimura Parker, Robin Wood, Catherine Vickers and James Parker. The Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Montréal foundation, Les amis de l`art, aided in funding her graduate work.
An accomplished soloist and laureate of several national competitions, Dr. Mohr performs extensively in Canada and the Midwestern United States both as a soloist and collaborator, including featured recitals in the Montreal Début concert series and the Banff Summer Festival, and has been recorded for broadcast on Radio-Canada and CBC Saskatchewan.
She also has presented solo recitals and master classes at several universities, including St. Olaf College, University of Chicago, and Viterbo University.
Recent concert appearances include several concerto performances with the Winona Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Music Winona, including works by Beethoven, Grieg, and Poulenc.
Eric Brisson
Pianist Eric Brisson holds a Doctorate degree in piano performance 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 master class series (1991-1997).
Dr. Brisson has performed 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 performed as soloist with the Canadian Music Competition Orchestra and the Sherbrooke Youth Orchestra, and has also performed numerous recitals in Montreal and Québec City, some of them radio broadcasted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Since moving to Winona in 2002, Dr. Brisson has been active both as recitalist and accompanist, and has been soloist with the Winona Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Music Winona and the WSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble.
In 2018, he completed a decade-long personal project to learn and perform all of Claude Debussy’s solo piano music on the WSU campus. He is also employed as organist/pianist at Wesley United Methodist Church in Winona.
Dr. Brisson has an interest in instructional technologies for music. In 2001, he created and developed Pianopedia, an internet search engine dedicated to classical piano music. In 2014, he created and implemented the Music Theory question type for the Moodle learning management system.
He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from McGill University, completed in 2002.
