Bertrand Chamayou

Born in Toulouse, France on March 23, 1981, Bertrand Chamayou is an internationally acclaimed classical pianist who performs with major orchestras and chamber ensembles. He is best-known for his renditions of Romantic works by composers such as Franz Liszt but also Chopin, Mendelssohn, Ravel and Schubert. In a review of a recital at London's Wigmore Hall in April 2018, the Guardian praised his sound as ‘rich and sonorous’ with climaxes ‘often epic’. He performs regularly at Wigmore Hall, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, the Herkulessaal Munich and the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris. Festival appearances have included Beethovenfest Bonn, Edinburgh and Lucerne, the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York, the Rheingau Musik Festival and Klavier-Festival Ruhr. Bertrand Chamayou gives chamber recitals often with cellists Gautier Capuçon and Sol Gabetta, violinist Vilde Frang, violist Antoine Tamestit and the Quatuor Ebène. Bertrand Chamayou learned to play the piano as a child and later studied at the Conservatoire de Toulouse and the Conservatoire de Paris. He won competitions and played professionally in the major concert halls around the world. Named Newcomer of the Year in the French Victoire de la Musique Classique Awards in 2006, he released Bertrand Chamayou Plays Mendelssohn in 2008, followed by Bertrand Chamayou Plays César Franck (2010). He won the Victoire de la Musique Classique as Instrumental Soloist of the Year in 2011. His album Liszt: Les Années de Pèlerinage earned him the prize for French Classical Music Recording of the Year in 2012. Other releases include Le Paris des Romantiques (2012), Schubert: Wanderer (2014), The Chopin Album (2015) and Maurice Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano (2016), after which he won an unprecedented fourth honor in the Musique Classique Awards as Instrumental Soloist of the Year. Debussy: Sonatas & Trio was released in 2017, followed by Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 2 & 5 (2018), Sol Gabetta's Schumann (2018), and Good Night! (2020).

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