Mélisande McNabney

Mélisande McNabney performs keyboard music of all periods, on harpsichord, piano, fortepiano, and organ. In August 2015, she received the third prize at the International Competition Musica Antiqua in Bruges, Belgium.

Very active on the concert scene, Mélisande has performed solo recitals across Canada and Europe, and was invited as a soloist with Les Violons du Roy, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Arion Orchestre Baroque, Ensemble Caprice and the Toledo Symphony. As a chamber and orchestra musician, she has toured extensively throughout North America and is regularly invited to play with ensembles such as Les Violons du Roy, Arion Orchestre Baroque, Montreal Bach Festival Orchestra, Les Idées heureuses, and Ensemble Caprice. In 2019, Mélisande released her debut solo album on ATMA Classique, Inspirations: D'Anglebert, Forqueray, Rameau, which received 5 Diapasons from Diapason magazine. Her second album, Fantasias: C. P. E. Bach / MOZART, released in 2022, received the mention ★★★★½ from La Presse.

Mélisande teaches harpsichord at the Conservatoire de Musique de Québec, and at the Domaine Forget International Academy. She is also an active researcher in the field of performance practices, and presented papers at the HKSNA conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music in Birmingham, UK. Mélisande is a graduate of the Amsterdam Conservatory where she studied harpsichord, continuo and fortepiano in the classes of Bob van Asperen and Richard Egarr. She was granted her Doctorate degree at McGill University in May 2017, under the guidance of Hank Knox and Tom Beghin.