Justine Pelletier, a pianist from the University of Montreal and winner of the piano competition at Canada’s National Music Festival 2007, will perform twice this November at the Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston. On Friday, Nov. 16 at 1 p.m., she will offer an educational presentation especially directed at young listeners. This will be attended by students and teachers from l’École française du Maine, as well as those from other regional schools. In her recital on Saturday, Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m., she will play works by Haydn, Schubert, Chopin, and Scriabin.

Pelletier began playing the piano at age 5, and since giving her first public concert at age 9, she has performed many times on radio and television. She was soloist on three occasions at Montreal’s Place des Arts with the McGill Chamber Orchestra under Boris Brott and she has given recitals in Belgium and Montreal.

She has received numerous scholarships, including one from the Quebec Arts Council, and in 2006, she was awarded grants to study at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta and the Orford Arts Centre in Quebec. She has garnered prizes in piano competitions in Canada, most recently the first prize at last summer’s National Music Festival held in Moncton, New Brunswick.

She currently studies with Jean Saulnier, head of the piano department at the University of Montreal, where she is completing her advanced degree in performance. Her appearances at the Franco-American Heritage Center continue this season’s Piano Series presentation of some of the finest young keyboard artists in North America.

Go and do

What: Justine Pelletier piano recital

Where: Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston

When: Friday, Nov. 16, 1 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: Adults $15/seniors $12, call 689-2000 or go to www.francoamericanheritage.org; no charge for students 21 and under and for the Friday “Young Listeners” program