{"id":3999,"date":"2025-08-05T09:25:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/teacher\/francois-dumont\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T09:25:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:25:31","slug":"francois-dumont","status":"publish","type":"teacher","link":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/teacher\/francois-dumont\/","title":{"rendered":"Francois Dumont"},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"instrument":[51],"class_list":["post-3999","teacher","type-teacher","status-publish","hentry","instrument-piano-en","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"name":"Dumont","first_name":"Francois","photo":1049,"instrument":[51],"teacher_biography":"Fran\u00e7ois Dumont is a prizewinner of the greatest international competitions: the Warsaw Chopin Competition (2010), the Queen Elisabeth Competition, and the Monte Carlo Piano Masters.\r\nNominated for the Victoires de la Musique, he received the French Music Critics' Revelation Award.\r\nHe has performed as a soloist with the Orchestre National de France conducted by Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Roth, at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, 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.\r\nHe has performed at major festivals such as La Chaise-Dieu, Radio-France Montpellier, Piano aux Jacobins, La Roque d'Anth\u00e9ron, 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 Herv\u00e9 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 Nabor\u00e9, 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, Faur\u00e9, 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\r\nKorcia, 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, Fran\u00e7ois Dumont is a piano professor at the Haute-Ecole de Musique de Gen\u00e8ve - Neuch\u00e2tel. He is regularly invited to give masterclasses in Europe and Japan.","accomplishments":[{"text_accomplishments":"Professor at Haute-Ecole de Musique de Gen\u00e8ve - Neuch\u00e2tel"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teacher\/3999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/teacher"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/teacher"}],"acf:term":[{"embeddable":true,"taxonomy":"instrument","href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/instrument\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"instrument","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salineacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/instrument?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}