Philippe Bianconi

Instrumentalists — Piano

Manager: Mark Z. Alpert
Management Territory: North & South America

"Always close to the soul of the music, filling the space with poetry and life” —The Washington Post

"An extraordinary exhibition of musicianship, technical control and good taste which lent the music a freshness, immediacy and conviction one all too seldom encounters" —The London Times

“Philippe Bianconi displays with great command his impeccable technique and a vibrant touch…this is gorgeous piano playing, he is capable of covering a great range of emotions withoutever losing his clarity and brilliance.” —Le Figaro (France)

About

French pianist Philippe Bianconi has been described as an artist whose playing is “always close to the soul of the music, filling the space with poetry and life” (Washington Post), “an extraordinary exhibition of musicianship, technical control and good taste which lent the music a freshness, immediacy and conviction one all too seldom encounters” (The London Times). After winning the Silver Medal in the Seventh Van Cliburn International Competition, Bianconi made an acclaimed recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 1987 and, since then, has enthralled audiences and critics throughout the world . . . .

Philippe Bianconi has appeared with this continent’s finest orchestras, including those of Cleveland, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Saint-Louis, Atlanta, Dallas, Minnesota, Buffalo, Montreal, Vancouver, Quebec City, and at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony under James Conlon. He has collaborated with such distinguished conductors as Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Kurt Masur, David Zinman, JoAnn Falletta, Marek Janowski, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Edo de Waart, and Yoav Talmi.

In Europe, Bianconi has played with many orchestras, including his special performance of Rachmaninov’s 2nd Piano Concerto with James Conlon and the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Paris in the sold out Paris Garnier Opera House, and with the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, Berlin Radio Symphony, Netherlands Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchester der Beethovenhalle in Bonn, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, and Strasbourg Philharmonic. He has toured a number of times in Australia, performing with the Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, and West Australian Symphony in Perth.

An active and acclaimed recital artist, Philippe Bianconi has appeared at New York’s Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Houston, and internationally at Wigmore Hall in London, the Berlin Philharmonic Recital Hall, as well as in Hamburg, Milan, Madrid, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai and Sydney. His recent recital in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris was a huge success with the critics acclaiming him ‘the premiere pianist of France’.

Philippe Bianconi has recorded the complete solo works of Ravel, and solo albums of Schumann, Schubert and Debussy on the Lyrinx label. His other recordings include the Brahms Violin Sonatas with Tedi Papavrami on Aeon label, works of Shostakovitch and Prokofiev with cellist Gary Hoffman on Le Chant du Monde label, and the three Schubert lieder cycles with Hermann Prey on Denon.

His new recording of the complete Debussy Preludes was released in September 2012 on La Dolce Volta label and was awarded the coveted Diapason d’Or in France.

Philippe Bianconi attended the Conservatory in Nice where he studied with Simone Delbert-Fevrier. In Paris he studied with Gaby Casadesus and in Freiburg-in-Breisgau with Vitalij Margulis. He was the first prize winner of both the Casadesus International Competition in Cleveland and the “Jeunesses Musicales” International Competition in Belgrade, as well as the Silver Medal of the Seventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth.
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