Olivier GARDON

Piano

Ecole normale de musique de Paris

Noticed at the age of seven by the Hungarian pianist Lili Kraus, OLIVIER GARDON studied piano at the Conservatoire de Nice and at the Conservatoire National de Paris with Pierre Sancan and Jean Hubeau, before perfecting his skills with Jean Fassina, György Sebök, Géza Anda and Lili Kraus.

After winning the Grand Prix Marguerite Long, the Queen Elisabeth Prize, the Viotti Prize and the Casella Prize of Naples, he embarked on a brilliant career as a soloist and chamber musician that has taken him to the greatest halls in the world’s musical capitals (the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Salle Pleyel and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris), and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican Center in London, the Carnegie Recital Hall in New York, the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg, the Bunka Keikan and the Kioi Hall in Tokyo, the Dvorak Hall in Prague, and the Solis Theatre in Montevideo. ..) He has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, the Philharmonique de Radio-France, the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras, the Orchestre National de Lille, and has collaborated with conductors such as Karl Münchinger, Ferdinand Leitner, Pierre Dervaux, Uri Segal and Theodor Guschlbauer, Davis Shallon, Serge Baudo, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Jacques Mercier, Philippe Bender, Jean Pierre Wallez,…

OLIVIER GARDON’s discography includes works by Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Mussorgsky, the complete piano works of Louis Vierne and the complete chamber music of Charles-Valentin Alkan (Prix Spécial de la Nouvelle Académie du disque français).

Editions Bärenreiter have entrusted him with the new urtext revision of Louis Vierne’s Preludes and Nocturnes for piano.

After teaching piano at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot and at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris (CRR) and the Hochschule de Hanovre, he was artistic director of the Académie internationale d’été de Nice. He is regularly invited to give masterclasses in France and abroad, and is a member of juries for international competitions including the Marguerite Long, the Cincinnati Master Competition (USA) and the Tbilisi International Piano Competition (Georgia).

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