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, Salzburg Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival and Beethovenfest Bonn.

In the 2018/19 season he debuts with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and François-Xavier Roth, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Manfred Honeck and Budapest Festival Orchestra under Robin Ticciati. Further highlights include his return to Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra’s season opening concert as well as a project with the Orchestra in April, and his residencies as a featured artist with Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Orchestre National de France.

Chamayou is a regular chamber music performer, with partners including Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Quatuor Ebène, Antoine Tamestit and Sol Gabetta. Following his successful performances at Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series and Salzburg’s Easter Festival, this season sees him perform recitals at Paris Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, London’s Wigmore Hall, in Prague, Lucerne and on tour through Italy with Sol Gabetta.

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. 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. The 2018/19 season sees release of his new recording of Camille Saint-Saëns piano concertos No.2 and 5 with the Orchestre National de France under Emmanuel Krivine.

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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)