Romain Descharmes
French pianist Romain Descharmes attended the Conservatoire régional du Grand Nancy, where he studied piano and won a gold medal at age 14. At 18, he relocated to Paris and studied with Jacques Rouvier, Christian Ivaldi, Jean Koerner, Bruno Rigutto, and Anne Grappotte. He also participated in the master classes of Idil Biret, John O'Conor, Dimitri Bashkirov, and Oxana Yablonskaya. In 2006, Descharmes won first prize in the Dublin International Piano Competition, and embarked on a series of recitals that took him to New York, London, Yokohama, Tokyo, and Paris. A breakthrough performance with the Orchestre de Paris in 2012 brought Descharmes critical attention. He has appeared as a soloist with many orchestras in France, Sweden, and Canada, and given recitals in the U.K., Germany, Serbia, Turkey, India, and Mexico, as well as performing for radio broadcasts. He is also actively involved with chamber music, and has performed with Henri Demarquette, Roland Daugareil, François Salque, Sarah Nemtanu, Deborah Nemtanu, Lise Berthaud, Pierre Fouchenneret, Laurent Korcia, the Court-Circuit Ensemble, and the Ebène Quartet. He performs regularly with Stéphane Logerot, Jean-Marc Phillips Varjabédian, François Desforges, and Jean-Luc Manca, who together form the chamber ensemble Quai n°5, and with whom he has recorded two albums on Decca. Descharmes also performs as a member of Trio Talweg. Descharmes and Fouchenneret also recorded the complete sonatas for violin and piano of Beethoven for Aparte, and Descharmes has recorded Ravel's piano music for Audite, and Saint-Saëns' piano concertos for Naxos.
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Discography
10 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Saint-Saëns : Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Romain Descharmes, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Marc Soustrot
Keyboard Concertos - Released by Naxos on 10 Mar 2017
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos, Vol. 2
Romain Descharmes, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Marc Soustrot
Classical - Released by Naxos on 12 May 2017
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5
Romain Descharmes, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Marc Soustrot
Classical - Released by Naxos on 13 Apr 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Concertos pour violon
Tianwa Yang, Jyvaskyla Sinfonia, Romain Descharmes, Patrick Gallois
Classical - Released by Naxos on 25 Jan 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Fauré & Scriabine: Vers l'extase (Piano Works)
Classical - Released by ARTALINNA on 9 Mar 2015
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Erwin Schulhoff & Léo Smit: Les Voix de l'oubli - Musique de chambre pour flûte
Virginie Reibel-Escoffier, Romain Descharmes, David Haroutunian
Classical - Released by Saphir Productions on 19 Nov 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ravel: Piano Works (Valses nobles et sentimentales, Gaspard de la Nuit, Sonatine & La Valse)
Classical - Released by audite Musikproduktion on 1 Jun 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Sechs Klavierstücke Vol. 1
Classical - Released by Claudio Records on 23 Sep 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Trios avec clarinette
Florent Pujuila, Yovan Markovitch, Deborah Nemtanu, Romain Descharmes
Classical - Released by Saphir Productions on 24 Sep 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ravel: Piano Works (Maurice Ravel)
Classical - Released by Audite on 1 Jun 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo