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Biography
Kenji Ouellet is a pianist, teacher and media artist born in Quebec City, Canada,
and based in Berlin. He studied piano performance at Laval University, Quebec,
and Hunter College (C.U.N.Y.) with Edna Golandsky, graduated in Digital Art at the
University for Applied Arts in Vienna, and in Experimental Media Design (Film) at
the University of the Arts in Berlin, where he became Meisterschüler in 2009.
After being introduced to the Taubman Approach by Robert Durso, he studied its
application and pedagogy with Edna Golandsky, cofounder of the Dorothy
Taubman Institute of Piano and of the Golandsky Institute. He teaches a wide
range of pianists (classical and jazz players, from young students to professionals
and recording artists). One of the few teachers in Europe with an extensive
training in the Taubman Approach and its pedagogy, he has more than 25 years
of experience helping piano players solve technical or musical problems, recover
from playing injuries and training in the approach.
He has given workshops and conferences on piano technique and pianists’ health
for universities and piano schools in Germany, Switzerland, the U.K., and Canada.
Ouellet’s interdisciplinary practice encompasses films, video art and performance,
where composition and sound design play a central role. His video work has been
shown and received distinctions internationally, including the Bremen Video Art
Award, the Cast & Cut Film Grant, and prizes at international film and video
festivals in Lisbon, Moscow, Toronto, London, and Yerevan, among others. His
work has been presented at various festivals and institutions across Europe and
beyond, including the European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück), the Zendai
Museum of Modern Art (Shanghai), the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art
(Bremen), L’Etrange Film Festival in Paris, the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in
Berlin, and the Mois Multi (Québec).
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