An enquiring and innovative artist, pianist Élisabeth Pion leads an imaginative career as a soloist, chamber musician & artistic collaborator. Recent highlights include the release of her first album with ATMA Classique, as well as being awarded the 3rd prize of the 2023 Rio Piano Festival, performing with the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira & Roberto Tibiriçá. Her second recording, a collaboration with Mathieu Lussier and Arion Orchestre Baroque, will be out in June 2024. Élisabeth will be heard for the first time with the Orchestre Métropolitain & Kensho Watanabe in 2024. She has made her US concerto debut in 2022 with the Toledo Symphony & Alain Trudel, and has previously played with several Canadian orchestras, such as the Victoria Symphony, the Orchestre classique de Montréal, Arion Orchestre Baroque & the National Academy Orchestra. She has been heard as a recitalist in several venues, notably making her Wigmore Hall recital debut in 2021 and her BBC Radio 3 broadcast debut in 2019. She is currently enrolled at the Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo with Benedetto Lupo, and will be receiving guidance from Gabriela Montero throughout 2024 as an OAcademy Fellow. Élisabeth is also the co-artistic director of the Festival Unisson in Canada, co-founded in 2020 with cellist Agnès Langlois, a festival based on Abramovic’s The Artist is Present. Her strong interests in literature, writing, composition, repertoire research and Tai Chi nurture her musical practice.