Louis Lortie

Lortie's major piano instructors were Yvonne Hubert and Marc Durand in Québec, Dieter Weber in Austria and Menahem Pressler and Leon Fleisher in the US.

[3] Throughout his career, Lortie has collaborated with conductors including Thomas Adès, Andrei Boreyko, Ricardo Chailly, Andrew Davis, Charles Dutoit, Mark Elder, Edward Gardner, Paavo Jarvi, Yannick Nézet Séguin, and many more.

[1] Lortie is Master in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (Waterloo, Belgium).

[5] Lortie is also the co-founder and artistic director of the LacMus International Festival on Lake Como.

[6] Lortie won First Prize in the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in 1984.