Jean-Pascal Hamelin has also given numerous concerts abroad, conducting the National Orchestra of Colombia in Medellin (broadcast on national television), the Dohnanyi Budafok Orchestra at the Budapest Palace of Arts, and the Youth Orchestra of the Americas, with whom he recorded an album entitled “From the New World”. This “live” recording, released on the Fidelio Musique label, was also nominated at the October 2011 ADISQ Gala as “Classical Orchestra Music Album of the Year.” Jean-Pascal has also collaborated with a number of outstanding soloists, including pianists Gabriela Montero and Louis Lortie.

He is currently conductor and artistic director of the Orchestre Philharmonia Mundi de Montréal, the Chœur Classique Vaudreuil-Soulanges, and the Choeur du Musée d’Art de Joliette (since September 2016). He was also conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique des Jeunes de Sherbrooke.

Jean-Pascal Hamelin studied conducting with Raffi Armenian at the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec à Montréal and with Jean-François Rivest and Paolo Bellomia at the Université de Montréal. He also trained in conducting in the United States and Europe with Harold Farberman at Bard College in New York and Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Chigiana Academy in Sienna, Italy.

Trained as a pianist, Jean-Pascal Hamelin continues to perform the solo repertoire as well as concertos and chamber music. He studied piano at McGill University with Charles Reiner, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree, and continued in New York with Edna Golandsky and Dorothy Taubman. He recorded an album of Chopin’s piano pieces entitled “Tableaux intimes,” for the Fidelio-Musicus label. He was an assistant producer and music commentator at Radio-Canada from 2000 to 2005 and a frequent guest on Ici Musique’s Soirées Classiques, hosted by Mario Paquet.