François Dumont
FRANCE
June 26th
PROGRAM
Chopin:
Lento con gran’ espressione
Barcarolle op.60
Ballade n.3 op.47
Debussy:
Suite Bergamasque
1. Prélude
2. Menuet
3. Clair de Lune
4. Passepied.
L’Isle Joyeuse
Entracte
Debussy:
Estampes
Pagodes
La Soirée dans Grenade
Jardins sous la pluie
La cathédrale engloutie (extrait des Préludes)
Liszt:
Les jeux d’eau de la villa d’Este (extrait des Années de Pèlerinage)
Funérailles (extraits des Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses)
François’ international career was launched by his prize-winning successes at the Chopin, Queen Elisabeth, Clara Haskil, and Monte Carlo Piano Masters competitions.
His latest album, “Clair de Lune”, dedicated to works of Debussy and recorded on the composer’s Blüthner piano, has received media acclaim, including the “Choc” of the Classica Magazine and the Joker from the Crescendo Magazine In Luxemburg.
Leonard Slatkin chose Mr. Dumont as the soloist to record the two Ravel Piano Concertos with the Orchestre National de Lyon, which has be released on the Naxos label with great critic acclaim.
Dumont has appeared as soloist within orchestras around the world such as the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Cleveland and Tokyo Symphony Orchestras. Numerous solo appearances have taken him amongst others to Chopin festivals in Paris, Nohant, Geneva, Festival International de la Roque d’Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse as well as the Kennedy Center in Washington.
He is also regularly invited to China, Japan and South Korea. Chamber music is an important part of Mr. Dumont’s musical life and performances. He frequently collaborates with musical partners such as Sayaka Shoji, Renaud Capuçon, Marc Coppey, Henri Demarquette, Augustin Dumay, Laurent Korcia, the Prazak quartet, and explores Lieder repertoire with his wife, the soprano Helen Kearns. François studied at the prestigious International Piano Academy Lake Como and the Lieven Piano Foundation with William Grant Naboré and other great artists such as Dmitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, Murray Perahia, Fou Ts’ong.
Passionate by transmission, François Dumont is piano professor at the Haute-Ecole de Musique de Genève / Neuchâtel, and is regularly invited for masterclasses in Europe and Japan.
