Denis Brott

[2] He studied cello with Walter Joachim[3] at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal from 1959 to 1967, with Leonard Rose at The Juilliard School in New York from 1964 to 1968, with Janos Starker at the Indiana University in Bloomington from 1968 to 1971 and with Gregor Piatigorsky at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, until 1975, acting as Piatigorsky's assistant for part of his four years there.

[citation needed] As a young man Brott performed as a cellist and conductor, winning numerous awards including: In 1975 he became a professor of Cello and Chamber Music at the North Carolina School of the Arts.

[citation needed] Since 1989 he has been Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal.

[citation needed] His concert tours have taken him to four continents and he has performed at many festivals, including Marlboro, Sitka, Santa Barbara, Banff, and Toronto Summer Music.

[citation needed] Brott performed for nine years with the Orford String Quartet, during which time he recorded 25 chamber music CDs.

[citation needed] In 1995, the first Montreal Chamber Music Festival was held at The Chalet de la Montagne, with Brott as its founder and artistic director.

[citation needed] In mid-March 2020, Brott contracted one of the first gravely serious cases of COVID-19 in Canada and was placed in an induced coma intubated in intensive care in Montreal's CHUM Hospital for over 32 days.