About Olivier Godin
Named Artistic Director of Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in June 2022, Olivier Godin leads a remarkable career as a concert artist, chamber musician, and educator both in Canada and abroad.
In recitals he has collaborated with singers including Gordon Bintner, Marc Boucher, Julie Boulianne, Étienne Dupuis, Karina Gauvin, Hélène Guilmette, Wolfgang Holzmair, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Philippe Sly, and many others. In chamber settings, he has performed alongside pianists Michel Béroff, Suzanne Blondin, Myriam Farid, and François Zeitouni, cellist Stéphane Tétreault, and oboist Louise Pellerin. He has performed in numerous festivals in Canada as well as at international venues, including the Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice, Wigmore Hall in London, and La Monnaie in Brussels.
Olivier Godin has recorded thirty CDs that have received widespread critical acclaim, including albums featuring Poulenc’s, Fauré’s, Duparc’s, and Dutilleux’s complete mélodies as well as Rachmaninoff’s complete works for two pianos. Recently, alongside a dozen renowned singers, he recorded Massenet’s 333 mélodies in their entirety for ATMA Classique.
Made a professor at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal at age 25, Olivier Godin served as director of this institution’s Atelier d’opéra for close to 15 years.