LEWISTON — One of Canada’s most talented young concert artists and teachers, Jean-François Latour, will close the tenth Piano Series Season at L-A’s Gendron Franco Center.  The concert will take place at 7 p.m., Friday, May 27, and the program will include works by Bach, Brahms and Schubert.

Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and students are admitted at no charge.

A native of Trois-Rivières, Québec, Latour established himself as a “rising star” long before his undergraduate and graduate work at the Université de Montréal, when, at age 11, he made his orchestral debut with the Orchestre Symphonique de Trois-Rivières.  In May 2002, he completed the prestigious Artist Diploma program at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, where he studied with Leon Fleisher. He also holds a Graduate Performance Diploma from Peabody and an Artist Diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. 

He has established a reputation as a poetic and imaginative artist with brilliant technique and a strong personal voice who can communicate across cultures and generations.   

 His debut CD, released in 2007 with ATMA Classique, featured works by Chopin.

A recipient of a Career Grant from the Canadian Council for the Arts, Latour is professor at the Université de Sherbrooke, where his students have won prizes in national competitions.

 He resides in Sherbrooke with his wife, pianist Andrée-Anne Perras-Fortin, and their two children.