Celebrating the Belle Époque of the Cello with Les Printemps Slaves

The outstanding cellist Stéphane Tétreault presents a program of remarkable intensity devoted to two monuments of the repertoire: the celebrated cello sonatas by Sergei Rachmaninov and Dmitri Shostakovich. Combining passionate lyricism with profound expressiveness, these works rank among the most significant ever written for the cello. For this concert, he will be joined by the brilliant pianist Chloé Dumoulin, a rising star on the Montreal classical scene. A short pre-concert talk will offer insight into the works and their artistic context.

Stéphane Tétreault, cello

In addition to innumerous awards and honours, Stéphane Tétreault is the recipient of the prestigious 2019 Virginia Parker Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts and was a nominee for the Oscar Morawetz Award for Excellence in Music Performance from the Ontario Arts Council. He is also the laureate of the 2022 Prix Opus for “Performer of the Year,” awarded by the Conseil québécois de la musique, accompanied by a Canada Council grant. In 2018, he received the Maureen Forrester Next Generation Award in recognition of his sensitivities with music, enviable technique, and considerable communication skills.

In 2016, Stéphane made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Nézet-Séguin and performed at the prestigious Gstaad Menuhin Festival in Switzerland. During the 2017-2018 season, he took part in the Orchestre Métropolitain’s first European tour with Maestro Nézet-Séguin, performing the Elgar Cello Concerto at the Kölner Philharmonie (Cologne), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), and the Philharmonie de Paris. He also made his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor John Storgårds.

In 2022, he released Transfiguration, a new collaboration with Valérie Milot featuring works by Marjan Mozetich, Caroline Lizotte, Alexandre Grogg, Kelly-Marie Murphy, and François Vallières. The album was nominated for Classical Album of the Year at the 2023 ADISQ Gala and won the Prix Opus for Album of the Year, awarded by the Conseil québécois de la musique. In the following years, he released two albums as part of the Images oubliées project with pianist Olivier Hébert-Bouchard. This project, which explores the world of Claude Debussy through original transcriptions for cello and piano, was nominated for Album of the Year and Concert of the Year at the 2024 Prix Opus.

Stéphane was a student of the late cellist and conductor Yuli Turovsky for more than 10 years. He holds a master’s degree in Music Performance from the University of Montreal.

Chloé Dumoulin, piano

“Perhaps Chloé Dumoulin will help make the world of great Quebec concert pianists (Hamelin,
Lortie, Richard-Hamelin, Liu, and others) a little less uniformly male.” – Le Soleil

Named one of CBC’s “30 Hottest Classical Musicians Under 30,” Canadian pianist Chloé Dumoulin is establishing herself as one of the most promising artists of her generation. Known for her sensitive, controlled, and deeply expressive playing, she has been praised for “an impressive command of the instrument’s sound, with a tone that never jars the listener, even in the fortissimos” (Le Soleil), as well as for being “an artist who truly has something to say.”

Chloé Dumoulin leads an international career that has taken her to stages across Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia. She made her debut at the Maison symphonique de Montréal under the baton of Jacques Lacombe in 2021, having already appeared as a soloist with the Orchestre Métropolitain and Orchestre Symphonique de Laval.

She also serves on the faculty at both the Domaine Forget and Orford Musique as an official pianist. Her debut album, Nouveau lyrisme, was released on the Leaf Music label in June 2025. Chloé is grateful for the prizes from the Sylva-Gelber Foundation and the Jeunesses Musicales Canada.

In 2025, she completed an Artist Diploma at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London as a Leverhulme Arts Scholar (full scholarship), studying under Ronan O’Hora. As of September 2025, she is a Junior Fellow at Guildhall. She previously trained at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal with André Laplante and Claire Ouellet, where she earned a dual master’s degree in 2023.

She has also received guidance from numerous renowned musicians during residencies and masterclasses, including Louis Lortie, Richard Goode, Paul Lewis, Gabriela Montero, Arie Vardi, Robert Levin, Dame Imogen Cooper, and Éric Le Sage.

Program: Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Dvořák

Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 8:00pm
Pre-concert talk with Ekaterina Baginskaya at 7:15pm

To purchase your tickets, visit: www.printempsslaves.ca

Conservatoire de Montréal – Concert Hall
4750 Henri-Julien avenue, Montreal, H2T 2C8