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Bertrand Chamayou

piano

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Bertrand Chamayou
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Bertrand Chamayou has mastered an extensive repertoire displaying striking assurance, imagination, artistic approach, and remarkable consistency in his performances. He is a regular performer in venues such as the Théâtre des Champs Élysées, Lincoln Center, the Herkulessaal Munich and London’s Wigmore Hall. He has appeared at major festivals including New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Lucerne Festival, Salzburger Festspiele, Edinburgh International Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival and Beethovenfest in Bonn.

He has performed with the world’s finest orchestras, including Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, hr-Sinfonieorchester, WDR Sinfonieorchester, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Recent highlights have included his celebrated debuts with New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Pittsburgh Symphony and Budapest Festival Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Atlanta Symphony and Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig.  Chamayou collaborated with conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Leonard Slatkin, Sir Neville Marriner, Michel Plasson, Stéphane Denève, Emmanuel Krivine and Andris Nelsons.

This season sees him appear at Philharmonie de Paris for a total of six perfomances throughout the season, London Symphony Orchestra both in London and on tour through Europe, Minnesota Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Kammerorchester Basel, Nederlands Philharmonic, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, WDR Sinfonieorchester and Seattle Symphony.

Bertrand Chamayou was born in Toulouse; his musical talent was quickly noted by pianist Jean-François Heisser, who later became his professor at the Paris Conservatoire. He completed his training with Maria Curcio in London.

Bertrand Chamayou published a large number of highly successful recordings, including a Naïve CD of music by César Franck, which was awarded several accolades. For his recording of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concertos N02 and 5 he was awarded the Gramophone Recording of the Year Award 2019.

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Recorded on 30 July 2020 at Victoria Hall, Geneva

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Symphonie N°9

Recorded on 30 July 2020 at Victoria Hall, Geneva