Name Francois Dumont Role Pianist | Education Conservatoire de Paris | |
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Similar People Ingolf Wunder, Helene Tysman, Evgeni Bozhanov, Bruno Rigutto, Miroslav Kultyshev | ||
Francois dumont performing bach mozart tanguy chopin cipc 2013
François Dumont (born 19 October 1985 in Lyon, France) is a French classical pianist.
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- Francois dumont performing bach mozart tanguy chopin cipc 2013
- Ravel gaspard de la nuit francois dumont piano
- Biography
- Discography
- Songs
- References
Dumont is notable for winning fifth prize in the sixteenth International Chopin Piano Competition. He has also won First Prize in the Jean Françaix International Competition in 2007 and First Prize in the Steinway International Piano Competition in 2002, and is also a laureate of the Perlemuter, Clara Haskil, Hamamatsu and Piano Campus piano competitions. He obtained the Grand Piano Prize of Spedidam in 2005 and the "Declic" Prize from the French Government.
Ravel gaspard de la nuit francois dumont piano
Biography
Dumont was born in Lyon on 19 October 1985 and began to learn the piano at the age of five. At the age of fourteen, Dumont entered the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, where he studied with Bruno Rigutto and Hervé Billaut. Other mentors of Dumont include Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, Dimitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, William Grant Naboré, Paul Badura-Skoda, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Stanislav Ioudenitch, and Fou Ts'ong. He also honed his piano skills at the International Piano Academy Lake Como.
Dumont has been invited to perform with orchestras in Lyon, Montpellier, Corsica, and Paris, playing concertos by Poulenc and Mozart as well as Bach concertos for three and four pianos with Bruno Rigutto. In 2006, he performed Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra in Latvia.
Discography
Songs
Guitare - Op 282014
Piano Trio No 1 in C Minor - Op 7: II Romance2014
Sonate pour piano No 13 in B-Flat Major - K 333: I AllegroMozart: Sonates pour piano · 2015