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François CHAPLIN |
François CHAPLIN trained at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSM) with the Bulgarian pianist Ventsislav Yankoff and with Jacqueline Robin (accompaniment and chamber music). He graduated with first prizes for piano and chamber music.
He won the International Piano Competition in Senigallia (Italy) in 1987 and was awarded the Mozart and Robert Casadesus Prizes at the International Competition in Cleveland in 1989. Those distinctions marked the beginning of a fine international career.
François Chaplin now plays
in many of the world’s capitals (Tokyo, Berlin, Moscow, Paris, Mexico…),
appearing as a soloist with many fine orchestras. He appears regularly
at important festivals, including La Roque d'Anthéron, St Bertrand
de Comminges, Pontlevoy, Reims (Les Flâneries Musicales), Piano
en Valois, Chopin Festival in Paris, Cervantino International Festival
(Mexico), Yokohama International Festival (Japan), etc.
This season, he is the guest of the Musée d’Orsay for 2 concerts
“carte blanche à François Chaplin”, with Debussy
concerts (2 pianos and chamber music). These concerts were repeated at
the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne. Last September,
François Chaplin played a recital at the Theatre des Champs-Elysées
at the same time of the publication of his last recording dedicated to
Chopin, and the release of a CD box with all his Debussy recordings.
In the summer 2008, among other recitals, François Chaplin played
a successful recital at the festival de la Roque d’Anthéron,
as well as concert at the Festival de Pontlevoy (Ravel with the Orchestre
de Tours), la Hague, Les Serres d’Auteuil, Musique en Albret, Mercin,
etc.
In 2008/2009, he will play Salle Pleyel (Schumann, Pasdeloup Orchestra,
dir. W. Doerner), in Norvay (at the Stavanger Philharmonie), Montréal
(CAN), Budaperst, Chopin with the Orchestre de Tours , as well as recitals
in some concerts’ series .
His concerts and recordings have met with great critical acclaim, and
he has been described as ‘one of the most original and engaging
of all French pianists’. His sumptuous sound and great expressiveness
and feeling make him a very fine interpreter of Mozart, as well enabling
him to bring out the sombre moods of Brahms or the brightness of Debussy.
His recording of Debussy's complete
piano works has been unanimously acclaimed by the international press
and it is already regarded as a reference. It is moreover the most complete
recording, including a piece that was only rediscovered a few years ago.
François Chaplin's other recordings include works by Chopin (Nocturnes),
Schumann (Kreisleriana, Kinderszenen) and Poulenc (works for two pianos
with Alexandre Tharaud), as well as Scriabin's complete Mazurkas (‘Diapason
d'Or’) and sonatas by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
Web site: www.francoischaplin.fr