Professor at Haute-Ecole de Musique de Genève - Neuchâtel
Piano
François Dumont is a prizewinner of the greatest international competitions: the Warsaw Chopin Competition (2010), the Queen Elisabeth Competition, and the Monte Carlo Piano Masters.
Nominated for the Victoires de la Musique, he received the French Music Critics’ Revelation Award.
He has performed as a soloist with the Orchestre National de France conducted by François-Xavier Roth, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Philharmonie de Paris, and the Musikverein in Vienna, as well as on tour in Japan. Leonard Slatkin invited him to record Ravel’s two concertos with the Orchestre National de Lyon for Naxos.
He has performed at major festivals such as La Chaise-Dieu, Radio-France Montpellier, Piano aux Jacobins, La Roque d’Anthéron, Chopin in Nohant, the Chopin Societies of Paris and Geneva, and the Palazzetto BruZane in Venice. Born in Lyon, he studied with Pascale Imbert, Chrystel Saussac, and Hervé Billaut. He entered the CNSMD in Paris at the age of fourteen, studying under Bruno Rigutto. He furthered his studies at the International Academy of Como and the Lieven Piano Foundation with Dmitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, William Grant Naboré, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, Andreas Staier, and Fou Ts’ong. His discography includes more than 35 albums, including the complete Mozart Sonatas, Ravel’s piano works, Beethoven and Schubert Trios, two Bach CDs, several Chopin CDs, as well as a double album published by the Chopin Institute in Warsaw, a Wagner/Liszt, Fauré, and Moussorgsky CD, and a complete Mozart concerto series, currently under way, with the Orchestre National de Bretagne, conducted by the piano. He regularly plays chamber music with Sayaka Shoji, Augustin Dumay, Laurent
Korcia, Marc Coppey, Henri Demarquette, Xavier Philipps, and the Prazak and Voce quartets, and explores Lieder with his wife, soprano Helen Kearns. He actively collaborates with composers such as Bacri, Dusapin, Finzi, Lacaze, Murail, and Tanguy. Passionate about teaching and pedagogy, François Dumont is a piano professor at the Haute-Ecole de Musique de Genève – Neuchâtel. He is regularly invited to give masterclasses in Europe and Japan.