{"id":2,"date":"2015-09-04T20:28:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T19:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mickaelarcos.fr\/wordpress4_dumont\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-02-08T12:44:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T11:44:24","slug":"biography-short","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.francoisdumont.com\/en\/biography-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francoisdumont.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-925\" src=\"http:\/\/www.francoisdumont.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image1-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"image1\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.francoisdumont.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image1-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.francoisdumont.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image1-683x1024.jpeg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>French pianist Fran\u00e7ois Dumont&#8217;s international career has been launched by his success in major international piano competitions winning prizes in the Chopin Competition, the Queen Elisabeth Competition, the Clara Haskil Competition, the Montecarlo Piano Masters. He has been nominated for the <strong>Victoires de la musique<\/strong>, a major French classical music event. He has received the Prix de la R\u00e9v\u00e9lation from the Syndicate of Music Critics in France. Fran\u00e7ois Dumont has been chosen by Leonard Slatkin to play and record both Ravel concerti with the Orchestre National de Lyon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<nav class=\"page-fence\">He appears as a <strong>soloist<\/strong> with orchestras such as the Cleveland Orchestra, the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, the Montecarlo Philharmonic, the Warsaw National Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Tokyo Symphony with conductors such as Jes\u00f9s Lopez-Cobos, Antoni Wit, Arie van Beek, Philippe Bender, Stefan Sanderling.<\/nav>\n<nav class=\"page-fence\">Fran\u00e7ois Dumont was fourteen years old when he entered the Paris Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur de Musique in Bruno Rigutto&#8217;s class. He later studied at the prestigious Lieven Piano Foundation and the Lake Como International Piano Academy with artists such as Murray Perahia, Leon Fleisher, Dmitri Bashkirov, William Grant Nabor\u00e9, Menahem Pressler, \u00a0Andreas Staier and Fou Ts&#8217;ong.<\/nav>\n<p>Fran\u00e7ois Dumont is invited to perform recitals in major Venus such as the Festival International de la Roque d&#8217;Anth\u00e9ron, the &#8216;Piano aux Jacobins&#8217; Festival \u00e0 Toulouse, Chopin Festival in Nohant, Radio-France Montpellier Festival, Chopin \u00e0 Bagatelle Festival, &#8220;Chopin and his Europe&#8221; Festival in Warsaw, Journ\u00e9es Ravel in Montfort l&#8217;Amaury, Ljubljana Festival, Kennedy Center in Washington. He regularly tours Japan and China.<\/p>\n<p>His first solo recordings, the Complete Mozart Sonatas (Anima Records) and a Chopin album (Artalinna) both received the &#8220;Maestro&#8221; award of the &#8220;Pianiste&#8221; magazine. Other solo recordings include a Wagner\/Liszt programme (Piano Classics) as well as a double CD <em>live<\/em> that includes all his performances at the Chopin Competition, published by the National Chopin Institute in Warsaw.<br \/>\nHis recent recording of the complete piano music of Maurice Ravel (Piano Classics) has received both critic (FFF Telerama, 5 Diapason) and public acclaim.<br \/>\nThe first volume of the B.A.C.H. project has been released by Artalinna. The second one has been released in February 2017.<\/p>\n<p>His recent recording of Mozart Concerti K.271 and K.466 with the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne have been praised for their &#8220;<strong>clarity of elocution<\/strong>&#8220;, their &#8220;<strong>ideal sense of equilibrium<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>delightful classicism<\/strong>&#8220;.<br \/>\nHis collaboration with the OSB continues with Mozart Concerti K.453 and K.488 which he has recorded live, conducting from the keyboard on tour between February and March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>His 2018 allbum, the complete Chopin Nocturnes, was praised by the BBC magazine for his \u00ab <strong>singing tone<\/strong> \u00bb and the International Piano Magazine considers that it is \u00ab <strong>a stunning new version that sets him apart<\/strong> \u00bb, while the American magazine \u00a0Fanfare writes : \u00ab <strong>There are few recent recordings to compare with this one<\/strong>. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>During the 2018-19 season, he is invited to perform Franck and Ravel\u00a0concertos with Les Si\u00e8cles orchestra conducted by\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Roth. Concerts will take him to Ta\u00efwan, Luxembourg, Ireland, Belgium and Russia. He will give a concert tour with Orchestre des Pays de Savoie with Mozart\u2019s \u00abJeunehomme\u00bb concerto.<\/p>\n<p>His debut in the Paris Philharmonie will take place in February 2019 with Schumann piano concerto.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French pianist Fran\u00e7ois Dumont&#8217;s international career has been launched by his success in major international piano competitions winning prizes in the Chopin Competition, the Queen Elisabeth Competition, the Clara Haskil Competition, the Montecarlo Piano Masters. He has been nominated for the Victoires de la musique, a major French classical music event. 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