Chemayne | zh

The granddaughter of accomplished Maltese orchestral violinist Lewis Micallef, pianist Chemayne Micallef was born in Toronto, Canada on June 18th. She made her television debut at the age of six and has won numerous piano competitions and scholarships.

Chemayne began composing by age eight and at age fourteen performed a one-hour solo special for T.V. She completed her piano and theory exams with the Toronto Royal Conservatory of Music where she studied with Adelaide Bell.

In 1992, Chemayne "displayed her piano prowess live on television (CTV) to more than two million viewers, winning the talent competition at the Miss Canada Pageant" (Mississauga News) also receiving a scholarship from Baton Broadcasting. In 1993, she graduated with honours from the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto where she studied piano with Irina Kugucheva. In 1994, she graduated from the Faculty of Education at McGill University in Montreal.

In 2001, she released her debut solo international album on the Avalon Music label called "Christmas Piano," distributed by Universal Music. Five tracks from this album are featured in the soundtrack of the Paramount Vantage motion picture "Year of the Dog," produced by Brad Pitt. Another track from "Christmas Piano" was also featured on an episode of "A Channel Morning" - a talk show in Victoria, British Columbia which aired a special Christmas segment in December 2008 on CTVGlobemedia.

Meeting with critical acclaim and commercial success, Chemayne recorded her second solo album in 2002 entitled, "Piano Memories" which went PLATINUM (CRIA). Also in 2002, she recorded her first classical album, a collection of Beethoven's Masterpieces with cello and violin featuring her as soloist.

In 2003, she released "Simple Gifts" a solo album which contains three original compositions: "Romance", "Journey" and "Flower Girl". (Published by Century Songs Corp.) "Flower Girl" was featured on a Yugoslavian TV special. Inspired by the birth of her beautiful daughter, now aged 5, Chemayne produced "Sweet Dreams", her first solo classical album released in 2006. In 2008, "Christmas Hymns" arranged for guitar, flute, voice and piano, and "Christmas Harp" arranged for solo harp, were released. Each of her Christmas albums are featured throughout the holiday season on the CBC's Galaxie network.

To commemorate the launch of a new line by Fisher~Price in 2009 called Precious Planet™, Chemayne's latest self-produced album entitled "Nighty Night, World", a collection of lullabies from around the world, arranged for piano, flute, nature sounds and keyboard is now available.

In addition to recording, arranging and composing, Chemayne models and has appeared in such movies as "Blown Away" and "Dirty Works". She is a member of: Socan, Ascap, CARAS, NARAS, and ACTRA.

Her albums are available at:
http://www.amazon.com
http://www.somersetent.com

For more information visit:
http://www.chemayne.com
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Chemayne/109963689841 .