Bertrand Chamayou

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“Chamayou is a remarkable musician, no question.”
(Tim Ashley, The Guardian)

Bertrand Chamayou has mastered an extensive repertoire displaying striking assurance, imagination, artistic approach and remarkable consistency in his performances. He is a regular performer in venues such as the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Lincoln Center, the Herkulessaal Munich and London’s Wigmore Hall. He has appeared at major festivals including New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Lucerne Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn and Klavier-Festival Ruhr.

The 2017/18 season will see him make his debuts with New York Philharmonic under Semyon Bychkov, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Bamberger Symphoniker, Staatskapelle Berlin, Atlanta Symphony, Orchestre symphonique de Québec and Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Further highlights include his return to Orchestre National de Belgique, Orquesta Nacional de España, Orchestre de Paris and Orchestre National de France. He will perform as soloist on tour in South Africa with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse.

Chamayou is a regular chamber music performer, with partners including Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Quatuor Ebène, Antoine Tamestit and Sol Gabetta. The pianist will open the season at London’s International Piano Series and perform in recitals at Wigmore Hall, Kissinger Sommer, Lakeside Arts Center Nottingham, in Monte Carlo, Vilnius, Essen, at Salzburg’s Easter Festival and Great Performers series at Lincoln Center, New York.

Bertrand Chamayou has made a number of highly successful recordings, including a Naïve CD of music by César Franck, which was awarded several accolades including Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice. In 2011, Chamayou celebrated Liszt’s 200^th anniversary with a recording of the complete Années de Pèlerinage — also for Naïve — which he performed in several venues throughout the world. The album received rave reviews worldwide – including Gramophone Choice. The only artist to win France’s prestigious Victoires de la Musique on four occasions he has an exclusive recording contract with Warner/Erato and was awarded the 2016 ECHO Klassik for his recording of Ravel’s complete works for solo piano.

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“(Chamayou) has the incredible rhythmic poise and big technique that you need for the piece (Bartok’s second piano concerto).”

(Seattle Times, March 2017)

“Chamayou has the right temperament for this music, from thundering climaxes to the most delicate passages along the way.”

(Bachtrack, July 2017)

“Chamayou’s scintillating fingers, immaculate octave and chord playing were not merely brilliant ends in themselves, but rather the means by which Liszt expressed his symphonic thought. His projection was pin.point and incisive, like a laser beam scything through metal plates. … Liszt knew how to grandstand and bring down the house and Chamayou duly obliged.”

(The Straits Times, December 2016)

“But there was also plenty of brilliance, particularly in the dizzying Toccata which – justifiably – brought members of the usually settled Wigmore Hall audience to their feet.”

(Music OMH, October 2015)