François Dumont
Pianist François Dumont has established an international solo career following winning prizes in several key piano competitions. He has appeared on a number of recordings as a soloist and as a member of Trio Élégiaque. Dumont's varied repertoire covers more than 50 concertos ranging from Bach and Mozart to Bartók and Messiaen, as well as much chamber and solo music. In 2021, he accompanied Ransom Wilson on the album In the Age of Debussy.
Dumont was born on October 19, 1985, in Lyon, France. He began playing piano at age five. He was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique at 14, studying there with Hervé Billaut and Bruno Rigutto. He also studied with Leon Fleisher, Murray Perahia, and Fou Ts'ong, among others, at the Lake Como International Piano Academy and the Lieven Piano Foundation. Success came early, as Dumont began performing with major orchestras across France in 2000 and has since performed across Europe, the Americas, and Japan, including with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra, among others. In 2002, Dumont, with cellist Virginie Constant and violinist Laurent Le Flécher, founded Trio Élégiaque: Philippe Aïche would later replace Le Flécher. Dumont's career was spurned on further by notable achievements in major international competitions in the 2000s and 2010s decades, including a first prize at the Jean-Françaix Competition and a laureate distinction at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2007, and a fifth prize at the Chopin Piano Competition in 2010.
Dumont's recording debut came on the Triton label in 2006 with Trio Élégiaque, an album of music by Messiaen and Pascal Dusapin that earned a Diapason d'Or. His solo debut, a recording of Mozart's complete piano sonatas, came in 2009 on Anima Records. In 2011, Dumont earned a nomination at France's Victoires de la musique for instrumental soloist revelation. Along with his continued participation with Trio Élégiaque, Dumont's list of chamber music partners includes violist Tabea Zimmerman, violinist Augustin Dumay, and cellist Henri Demarquett. Dumont's recording catalog continued to grow in the late 2010s and into the 2020s decade. He accompanied flutist Ransom Wilson on the album In the Age of Ravel in 2017. In 2019, he was heard with the Orchestre National de Lyon and conductor Leonard Slatkin on a recording of Ravel's piano concertos. The following year, he issued a recording of Fauré's complete nocturnes, and in 2021, he backed Wilson once more on the album In the Age of Debussy.
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Bach: Keyboard Suites
Classica - Pubblicato da ARTALINNA il 30 ott 2015
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Ravel : Orchestral Works, Vol. 6
François Dumont, Jennifer Gilbert, Orchestre National De Lyon, Leonard Slatkin
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 13 set 2019
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Ravel: Complete Piano Music
Classica - Pubblicato da Piano Classics il 11 ago 2023
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Chopin: 21 Nocturnes
Classica - Pubblicato da Aevea Classics il 26 gen 2018
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Fauré: Complete Nocturnes
Classica - Pubblicato da Piano Classics il 31 gen 2020
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Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3, Berceuse, Fantaisie & Polonaise 'Heroic'
Musica concertante - Pubblicato da ARTALINNA il 7 mar 2012
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Chopin : Ballades et Impromptus
Classica - Pubblicato da La Musica il 1 apr 2022
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Bach: Keyboard Works, Vol. 2
Classica - Pubblicato da ARTALINNA il 3 feb 2017
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition & Other Piano Works
Classica - Pubblicato da Aevea Classics il 18 gen 2019
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Liszt: Wagner Transcriptions
Classica - Pubblicato da Piano Classics il 3 set 2014
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Mozart: Sonates pour piano
Classica - Pubblicato da Anima-Records il 21 apr 2009
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Pierné, Vierne & Fauré: French Resonance
Classica - Pubblicato da Fuga Libera il 30 ott 2015
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Jolivet: Complete Works for Flute, Vol. 1
Hélène Boulègue, François Dumont
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 8 feb 2019
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Franck: Piano Quintet - Dvořák: String Quartet No. 14
Prazak Quartet, François Dumont
Quartetti - Pubblicato da Praga Digitals il 27 mag 2022
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Fauré Authentique
Classica - Sarà pubblicato il 17 mag 2024 su audite Musikproduktion
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Bohèmes
Isabel Villanueva, François Dumont
Classica - Pubblicato da IMM il 13 ott 2017
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In the Age of Debussy
Wilson Ransom, François Dumont
Musica da camera - Pubblicato da Nimbus Alliance il 8 gen 2021
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Peaceful Piano: The French Collection
Classica - Pubblicato da Brilliant Classics il 11 ago 2023
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Fauré: Berceuse, Op. 16
Classica - Pubblicato da audite Musikproduktion il 9 feb 2024
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In the Age of Ravel
Wilson Ransom, François Dumont
Musica da camera - Pubblicato da Nimbus Alliance il 2 giu 2017
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