Bertrand Chamayou

Bertrand Chamayou ( born March 23, 1981 in Toulouse ) is a French pianist.

Life

Chamayou attended the Conservatory of his hometown and went with 15 years at the Conservatoire de Paris. Maria Curcio in London connected, Murray Perahia and Leon Fleisher, who started with a concert tours in France. He played in Europe, Japan, Canada and Hong Kong, in Germany in Munich and at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Chamber music he makes with Augustin Dumay, Renaud Capuçon and Gautier Capuçon.

In 2006, Sony 's Etudes d' exécution transcendante on by Franz Liszt. Followed in 2007, the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Camille Saint- Saëns, Mendelssohn's Songs without Words, 2008 and 2010 César Franck's major piano works. In the Liszt anniversary year 2011 Chamayou took his monumental piano cycle Années de on pèlerinage.

He is the winner of the Paris Long - Thibaud competition and Krainew Competition in Kharkov (1998). In the Victoires de la musique classique, he was appointed " instrumental soloists of the Year" 2011.

His sovereign and bright clear version of Liszt's " abgedroschenem " Piano Concerto No. 1 is second to none.