François Dumont (; born 19 October 1985 in

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

, France) is a French classical

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. Dumont is notable for winning fifth prize in the sixteenth

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. He has also won First Prize in the Jean Françaix International Competition in 2007 and First Prize in the Steinway International Piano Competition in 2002, and is also a laureate of the Perlemuter, Clara Haskil, Hamamatsu and Piano Campus piano competitions. He obtained the Grand Piano Prize of Spedidam in 2005 and the "Declic" Prize from the French Government.

Biography

Dumont was born in

on 19 October 1985 and began to learn the piano at the age of five. At the age of fourteen, Dumont entered the

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, where he studied with Bruno Rigutto and Hervé Billaut. Other mentors of Dumont include

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, Stanislav Ioudenitch, and

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. He also honed his piano skills at the

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. Dumont has been invited to perform with orchestras in Lyon, Montpellier, Corsica, and Paris, playing concertos by

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and

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as well as

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concertos for three and four pianos with Bruno Rigutto. In 2006, he performed Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the

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in Latvia.

Discography

*''

, Complete Sonatas for Piano'' (2009), Anima Records *Works by Messiaen and Dusapin, with ''Trio Elégiaque'', rewarded with a Diapason D'or *

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, Trio No. 39;

Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8September 18411May 1904) was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predec ...

, Dumky *

Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism in music, Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composer ...

, Complete Piano Music for piano solo. Piano Classics 2013 (Double CD)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dumont, Francois 1985 births Musicians from Lyon Conservatoire de Paris alumni Living people 21st-century French male classical pianists 21st-century French classical pianists Prize-winners of the International Chopin Piano Competition