Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (born 29 December 1986) is a French pianist, organist, and composer. His repertoire extends from Bach to Barraqué and the works of his own contemporaries.
He was born in Paris on 29 December 1986. When he was eight years old he began studying piano at the Académie Maurice Ravel in
and then added studies in organ and composition. He entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in 2000, where he received highest honors in piano, accompaniment, improvisation at the piano and at the organ, and chamber music.
He has won a number of prizes including First Prize at the 2002 Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists; Second Prize and the Beethoven Prize at the 2004 José Iturbi Piano Competition; Third Grand Prix, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Prize, the Audience Favorite Prize and the Sacem Prize at the 2004 Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris; and Second Prize at the 2005 London International Piano Competition. He won the 2006 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, where he was also awarded the John Browning Memorial Prize and the Rhoda Walker Teagle Prize, which in December 2006 sponsored his New York debut at Zankel Hall and his debut recital in Washington, D..C, at the
Kennedy Center
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. He also won First Prize in the 2005 Young Concert Artists European Auditions.
In 2014, the Auditorium du Louvre held a series of seven concerts entitled "Jean-Frédéric Neuburger and Friends" in which he was featured as both performer and composer.
Since 2009, he has taught the renowned Classe d'Accompagnement at the
Conservatoire de Paris
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.
He has played the premiere performances of many works including ''Alberti'' by Christian Lauba at the festival Les Semaines musicales in
Quimper
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in 2013 and at the Strasbourg music festival in 2014.
His compositions include:
*''Maldoror'', for piano, lasting around twenty minutes, inspired by the poems of Lautréamont ''Chants de Maldoror'' (1868).
*''Cantate profane'', a cantata for an ensemble of 14 musicians with a mixed choir, using two poems by
Aimé Césaire
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; commissioned by
Radio France
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*''Souffle sur les cendres'', for piano and violin]
*''Danse encore!'', for string trio and piano]
*''Aube'' (2015), first performance by the
Boston Symphony Orchestra
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on 12 November 2015, under
Christoph von Dohnányi
Christoph von Dohnányi (; born 8 September 1929) is a German conducting, conductor.
Biography
Youth and World War II
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