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AMIRA ACRE

Amira Acre began her piano studies at the age of three in Montreal. At four she had her first professional engagement on the radio, and at five she won her first piano competition. She studied with Abbey Simon at the Juilliard School of Music, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. She earned her doctorate in piano performance at RutgersUniversity, where she also was awarded a teaching fellowship.

Ms. Acre has been a recipient of many scholarships and awards including three Canada Council Grants and Fellowships to Tanglewood, Fontainebleau, and Banff. She was awarded full tuition scholarships at Juilliard from the William Petschek Piano Fund. She has won scholarships from La Fondation des Amies de l’Art. She has received the first prize at the Artists International Auditions in New York and was a winner of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra competition and Grand Prize winner at the Maidenhead Festival in England. She was a frequent winner of the Quebec Music Festival and the Canadian Music Competition and was a winner of the CBC Radio Talent Competition.

Ms. Acre gave her New York debut in 1984 at Carnegie Hall to great critical and public acclaim. This led to many engagements across Canada and the United States. Ms. Acre has performed in France, England, Belgium,Italy and many other countries across Europe. Her most recent Boston appearance was as a soloist with the Brockton Symphony Orchestra at Jordan Hall. She has also participated in concerts with the Civic Orchestra of New England.

Besides performing internationally as a solo artist Ms. Acre is a distinguished accompanist and chamber musician and has performed numerous times at LincolnCenter in New York City. Ms. Acre has performed in many music festivals including those at Banff, Orford, Shaw and Lanaudiere in Canada; Aspen, Bowdoin, and Tanglewood in the United States; and Fontainebleau, France.

A number of Ms. Acre’s recitals have been broadcast on CBC Radio on the Music from Montreal series.