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Philippe BIANCONI |
Winner of the Silver Medal in the Seventh Van Cliburn International Competition, French pianist PHILIPPE BIANCONI has mesmerized audiences and critics throughout the world with his brilliant performances in recital and as soloist with orchestra. He is described as a pianist whose playing is "always close to the soul of the music, filling the space with poetry and life" (The Washington Post), and whose "extraordinary exhibition of musicianship and technical control lends the music a freshness, immediacy and conviction one all too seldom encounters" (The Times, London).
Since making his orchestral debut,
Mr Bianconi appeared in North America with the orchestras of Cleveland,
Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, St Louis, Baltimore, Atlanta, Minnesota, Dallas,
Columbus, Montreal and Vancouver.
His other international appearances include engagements with the Orchestre
de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, the Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo,
the Melbourne Symphony, the Cape Town Philharmonic, the Orchester der
Beethovenhalle in Bonn, the Toulouse Orchestra, as well as the Orchestre
National de l’Opéra de Paris.
He has performed with such distinguished conductors as Lorin Maazel, Christoph
von Dohnanyi, Kurt Masur, Edo de Waart, Marek Janowski, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski,
Georges Prêtre, Jeffrey Tate, Gennady Rojdestvenski and James Conlon.
Philippe Bianconi made an acclaimed
recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 1987 and also appeared at the Kennedy
Center in Washington D.C. and in Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia,
Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, Toronto and Vancouver.
His recitals in Europe have taken him to London, Berlin, Vienna, Salzburg,
Milan, Amsterdam and Madrid, and his performances in Paris are frequently
broadcast on Radio France. In 1998, during his first concert tour of Japan,
his debut recital in Tokyo was broadcast by N.H.K Television .
A versatile artist, Philippe Bianconi regularly plays chamber music with
flutist Jean Pierre Rampal, the Sine Nomine String Quartet, Guarneri String
Quartet, Ysaÿe Quartet, cellist Gary Hoffman, violinist Tedi Papavrami…..
Philippe Bianconi attended the
Conservatory in Nice where he studied with Simone Delbert-Fevrier. He
also studied extensively in Paris with Gaby Casadesus and in Freiburg-in-Breisgau
with Vitalij Margulis. In addition to winning the Silver Medal in the
Van Cliburn Competition, he was the first prize winner of both the Casadesus
International Competition in Cleveland and the “Jeunesses Musicales”
International Competition in Belgrade.
Over the past few months, Philippe Bianconi toured the United States and
Australia, appeared in concerts and recitals in Paris, Rome, Budapest,
Montreal, Mexico and in numerous summer festivals including Grant Park
in Chicago and La Roque d’Anthéron; he also played Rachmaninov
2nd Concerto under James Conlon at the Palais Garnier in Paris, made an
acclaimed debut with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in Reykjavik, and
a recital debut in Santiago de Chile; He also performed with the Guarneri
String Quartet in the chamber music series of the Metropolitan Museum
in New York City, a recital in Berlin, in the prestigious series “
Sonntags um Vier” of the Berlin Philharmonic and appeared with the
Prague Symphony Orchestra under Serge Baudo and the Monte Carlo Philharmonic,
Marek Janowski conducting, Ravinia with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
and James Conlon, Berlin with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin etc…
Philippe Bianconi has recorded
with different labels : Lyrinx (solo works of Ravel, Schumann and Schubert),
Claves (Brahms’ Piano Quintet with the Sine Nomine Quartet), Le
Chant du Monde (Shostakovitch/Prokofiev with cellist Gary Hoffman), Denon
(Schubert Lieder Cycles with Hermann Prey).
For AEON he recorded the Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Brahms with Tedi
Papavrami