Jonas Vitaud
Pianist Jonas Vitaud is adventurous and versatile, playing mainstream repertory and also working closely with contemporary composers. He is also a noted educator.
Vitaud was born in Paris on May 7, 1980. He started piano lessons at six, but, as he told Piano Bleu, "I discovered music before the instrument, through listening to Handel's Water Music and Royal Fireworks Music." His first teacher was not a pianist, but violinist Andrew Sherwood. When Vitaud enrolled at a local conservatory, "It was a cold shower... Everything was compartmentalized, systematized," but classes at the Paris Regional Conservatory with Chantal Fraysse fired his imagination once again, and he won several national French prizes. He also studied the organ during this period. In 1995, Vitaud entered the Paris Conservatory, studying with Brigitte Engerer and others. He won four of the school's coveted first prizes and went on to victories at international competitions in Vienna, Munich, Trieste, and other cities. Vitaud has performed concertos with the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Sinfonia Varsovia in Warsaw. His solo recital credits include one at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Vitaud has had various chamber music partners including violinist Mi-Sa Yang, clarinetist Raphaël Sévère, and cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière. He is a frequent presence at festivals internationally, including the Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Autonno Musicale in Caserta, Italy, and iDANS in Istanbul, Turkey. Vitaud often champions contemporary music and has worked closely with composers Henri Dutilleux, György Kurtág, and Philippe Hersant, among others.
Vitaud recorded an album of Brahms' piano music in 2011 for the Orchid Classics label before signing with Mirare and releasing albums of music by Tchaikovsky, Debussy, and Mozart. In 2019, he joined Julien-Laferrière for a recital on the Alpha label of cello-and-piano works by Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, and Edison Denisov.
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Discography
10 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Festival International de Piano La Roque d'Anthéron 2023
Jean-Baptiste Doulcet, David Kadouch, Claire-Marie Le Guay, Jonas Vitaud
Piano solo - Released by Mirare on 14 jul. 2023
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Tchaikovsky : Les Saisons
Piano solo - Released by Mirare on 4 mrt. 2016
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Rachmaninov / Shostakovich / Denisov
Victor Julien-Laferrière, Jonas Vitaud
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 27 sep. 2019
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Mozart : Violin Sonatas
Duo´s - Released by Mirare on 26 apr. 2019
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Beethoven 1802, Heiligenstadt
Klassiek - Released by Mirare on 14 mei 2021
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Debussy : Jeunes Années
Jonas Vitaud, Sébastien Droy, Clément Mao-Takacs, Karine Desayes, Secession Orchestra, Roustem Saïtkoulov
Kamermuziek - Released by Mirare on 19 okt. 2018
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Miroirs
Klassiek - Released by NoMadMusic on 12 jan. 2016
Choc de Classica5 de DiapasonGrand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Franck - Chausson
Quatuor Zaïde, Karine Deshayes, Jonas Vitaud
Klassiek - Released by NoMadMusic on 17 okt. 2017
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Brahms: Rhapsodies - Intermezzi - Klavierstucke (Johannes Brahms)
Klassiek - Released by Orchid Classics on 1 nov. 2011
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