Jérôme GRANJON 

Piano

Conservatoire national Supérieur de Musique de Lyon

Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris

Professor at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, Jérôme Granjon performs in many countries in Europe, North and South America. In recent years, he has been a regular guest in Asia (China, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam), performing solo, chamber music and with orchestra.

With a discography that combines solo (Schumann, Debussy, Janacek…) and chamber music (French music with violinist Saskia Lethiec, music for art harmonium and piano with Emmanuel Pélaprat, recordings with the Hoboken trio…), he is currently recording the complete Well-Tempered Clavier (2021) for Anima Records, having played it frequently in concert in recent years.

On the creative front, he collaborates with composers such as Betsy Jolas, Kryštof Mařatka and Philippe Raynaud, whose monograph he is recording (2019, Anima records). He also mixes music and dance alongside pianist Sandrine Le Grand with Dominique Brun, director of the Porteurs d’ombres company, and dancer François Chaignaud.

He is interested in historical instruments, and performs solo and chamber music programs on his own fortepiano, ranging from Bach to Beethoven.

Jérôme Granjon holds masterclasses in France, Spain, Brazil, Japan, China and Taiwan. He assisted Maria João Pires as artistic director of the Centre Belgais d’Etude des Arts (Portugal) from 2000 to 2004. With Saskia Lethiec, he is co-Artistic Director of the Erard Festival (Paris Salle Erard).

“He’s a magnificent musician, and I think this album is an achievement in his career. Truly poetic and gripping, captivating in its magnificent sonority and sense of sound. Sumptuous Kreisleriana!” Philippe Cassard in Portraits de famille on France Musique (March 7, 2020).

“Partition in hand, the legibility of the whole is blinding, the logic of the reading enlightening, and the simplicity of the subject saving” Jean-Charles Hoffelé about the recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier in Artalina.com