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Bertrand Chamayou

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Biography

French pianist Bertrand Chamayou was born in Toulouse on March 23, 1981. He took his first piano lessons at the age of eight, and went on to train at the Toulouse Conservatoire and then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris in the class of Jean-François Heisser, where he won a first prize in piano. Trained by such renowned pianists as Murray Perahia, Leon Fleisher and Aldo Ciccolini, he made a name for himself in international competitions, including Krainev in Ukraine (second prize in 1998) and the Long-Thibaud Competition (fourth prize in 2001). His career as a soloist on the greatest French and European stages, and then worldwide, is combined with a series of recordings for the Sony Classical, Naïve and Erato labels. In 2006, he won the Victoire de la musique classique award for best instrumental soloist for his debut album devoted to Liszt's Douze études d'exécution transcendante, followed by programs on Mendelssohn, Franck, Schubert, Chopin, Ravel(Complete Works for Solo Piano, 2016), Debussy and Saint-Saëns. His complete recording of Liszt's Années de pèlerinage was hailed as album of the year in 2012. Also composer of a Piano Concerto in his youth, Bertrand Chamayou is also an interpreter of contemporary musicians including Messiaen, Dutilleux, Kurtag, Nono, Adès and Mantovani. In 2018, the pianist will take up a residency at Radio France, before becoming director of the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Festival. After a solo recital devoted to lullabies entitled Good Night!, Chamayou builds a bridge between the compositions of Erik Satie and John Cage in the diptych Letter(s) to Erik Satie (2023) and Cage² (2024). In 2025, he returns to Ravel for the 150th anniversary of his birth, and in Fragments sets some of his pieces against tributes by Honegger, Tansman, Nin, Sciarrino, Viñes, Durieux, Montsalvatge and Betsy Jolas.
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  2.   Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus: No. 19, Je dors, mais mon cœur veille
  3.   Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus: No. 18, Regard de l'Onction terrible
  4.   Cage: The Perilous Night: III.
  5.   Cage: The Perilous Night: IV.
  6.   Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus: No. 17, Regard du silence
  7.   Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus: No. 16, Regard des prophètes, des bergers et des Mages
  8.   Cage: The Perilous Night: V.
  9.   Tombeau de Messiaen for Piano and Digital Audio Tape
  10.   Cage: The Perilous Night: VI.
  11.   Humble regard sur Olivier Messiaen
  12.   Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus: No. 20, Regard de l'Église d'amour
  13.   6 Gnossiennes: No. 4, Lent
  14.   Rain Tree Sketch II "In memoriam Olivier Messiaen"
  15.   Live Ear Emission! "Homage to Olivier Messiaen"
  16.   Jolas: Signets, hommage à Maurice Ravel by ラヴェル
  17.   Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus: No. 11, Première communion de la Vierge
  18.   Ravel: Suite pour piano de Daphnis et Chloé, M. 57c: Scène de Daphnis et Chloé by ラヴェル
  19.   Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus: No. 10, Regard de l'Esprit de joie
  20.   Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus: No. 9, Regard du temps
  21.   Cage: Root of an Unfocus
  22.   Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus: No. 8, Regard des hauteurs
  23.   Cage: Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
  24.   Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus: No. 15, Le baiser de l'Enfant-Jésus
  25.   Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus: No. 14, Regard des Anges
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