Denine LeBlanc

Dr. Denine LeBlanc taught music for 28 years in the Jefferson County Public School until her retirement from the school system in June of 2023. From 1978 until its closure in the spring of 2020, she taught piano in the Community Music Program at the University of Louisville School of Music. In 2021, Dr. LeBlanc released her fourth album, entitled "God Loves the French" featuring solo piano works and music for flute and piano all by French composers.

“For Michelle” Dr. LeBlanc’s third album, is a memorial album for her late sister, the esteemed equine specialist, Dr. Michelle LeBlanc. Dr. LeBlanc’s previous albums, “The Sun Shines Bright” and “Weep no More,” feature original piano music by Kentucky composers. She has played both traditional and contemporary concerts throughout the United States as well as abroad in Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Poland. In 2016, Dr. LeBlanc organized "les six", a sextet of wind instruments and piano. The ensemble creates opportunities to play a body of chamber music that is seldom performed.

Significant performances in her life include recitals for American soldiers and their families stationed in Baumholder, Wiesbaden, and Vilseck, Germany. Her son, Sergeant Adrian Adams who was stationed in Vilseck, was also in attendance.

 
 

Dr. LeBlanc holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance and music history from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, a Master of Music degree from the University of Louisville and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Dr. LeBlanc is the proud mother of four children. She lives in the historic district of Louisville, Kentucky.

CV - Professional Information

EDUCATION

DMA Piano Performance (Minor in Music History) University of Cincinnati,  1989
M.M Applied Piano University of Louisville, 1978
B.M. Applied Piano (Minor in Organ) Cleveland Institute of Music, 1975

PUBLICATIONS
The Teaching Philosophy of Isidor Philipp, Clavier, 1994

Isidor Philipp's Famous Connections, American Music Teacher, August-September, 1993

The Life and Work of Isidor Philipp, Doctoral Dissertation, 1989, UMI 9003215

 
 

GRANTS
Kentucky Arts Council 2003
Kentucky Foundation of Women 2003
University of Louisville Women's Center 2003

CONCERT HIGHLIGHTS
Concerts of traditional classical and new music throughout the north and southeast states.

CDs:
God Loves the French, 2021
For Michelle, 2014
Weep no More, 2010
The Sun Shines Bright, 2004

TOURS:
Poland, 2017
Croatia, 2017
France 2006, 2008 and 2010
Germany 2010, 2011
Hungary, 2011      
Italy 2008, 2010, 2014, 2015

Commissions and Premieres of New Works

  • Mixed Company (sextet) Larry Barnes

  • Preludes from Panagea Larry Barnes

  • Suite for Piano Richard Burchard

  • One Never Knows Gabe Evans

  • Stain Glass Slumber (sextet) Gabe Evans

  • Reflections Rachel Grimes

  • Objectionable Variations Giuseppe Lupis

  • Saints Rising Carrie Leigh Page

  • Monochrome Accumulation (Ultramarine Blue) Marc Satterwhite

  • Piano Flamboyant Marc Satterwhite

  • Cloudbows Fred Speck

  • The Manhattan Suite Davide Zannoni