Francois Dumont (Piano)
A prize-winner at the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Competition, pianist Franзois
Dumont (born in Lyon in 1985) has also obtained
the 1st prize at the Jean Franзaix International
Competition (2007) and a unanimous 1st prize at
the steinway International Competition. He is also a prize-winner of
the Perlemuter, Clara Haskil, Hamamatsu and Piano Campus competitions. He
has won the Grand Piano Prize of Spedidam (2005) and
the Declic prize from the French Government. Franзois
Dumont was fourteen years old when he entered the Paris Conservatoire
National Superieur de Musique, where he worked with Bruno Rigutto and Herve
Billaut. Other mentors include Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, Dmitri
Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, William G. Nabore, Paul Badura-Skoda,
Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Fou Ts’ong. Dumont recently graduated from
the Lake Como International Piano School.
Since 2000, he has performed with orchestras in France (Lyon,
Montpellier, Corsica, Paris, Caen), Belgium (Orchestre National de
Belgique), Japan (Tokyo Symphony), the USA (Fort Worth Symphony),
Switzerland (Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne) and Germany, performing
concerti by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and
Poulenc and the Bach Concerti for three and four pianos. He has played
the Sept Haпkaпby Messiaen with the Cannes Orchestra under
the baton of Philippe Bender.
A passionate chamber musician, Franзois Dumont has performed
the complete Beethoven violin and piano sonatas with stephane Tran-Ngoc
in the USA. He performs together with Julien Szulman and appears with
the Quatuor Debussy. He is also a member of the Trio
elegiaque (with Virginie Constant and Laurent Le Flecher). Their first CD
for Triton, one of works by Messiaen and Dusapin (world premiere) with
Jean-Philippe Vivier, received a Diapason d’Or. The Trio
premiered Nicolas Bacri’s Fourth Trio, dedicated to them, to great acclaim.
Their next CD with Triton is dedicated to three Russian composers (Arensky,
Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov).
Dumont has performed at the Theatre du Chatelet, the Salle Gaveau,
the Salle Pleyel, the Auditorium de Lyon and many festivals such as
the Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise, the Chopin Festival,
the Nuits Musicales du Suquet in Cannes and the Festival
de Radio France in Montpellier. He has given recitals in Germany,
Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Ireland, the USA, Latvia,
Syria, Brazil and Mexico. In 2009 he recorded the complete Mozart
sonatas for Anima Records.
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