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Cédric Tiberghien -pianist- Representation: Belgium
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Cedric Tiberghien is one of the most exciting artists to emerge from France in recent years. At 30 years old, he is currently receiving exceptional exposure in the United Kingdom as one of the lead artists in the BBC’s New Generation Artists scheme. This season he will appear with the BBC Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestre de Paris, the Hamburger Philharmoniker, a tour with the Gelders Orkest as well as debuts with the Sydney Symphony and West Australian Symphony. Projects with the BBC orchestras include the complete cycle of the Beethoven concertos, and will culminate in a Harmonia Mundi CD recording of Brahms 1 with the BBC Symphony and Jiri Belohlavek. Other concerto highlights of this season include the As a recitalist, Cedric Tiberghien is due to appear at venues including London’s Wigmore Hall and LSO St Luke’s, the Chatelet Paris, the Beethovenfest Bonn, as well as the City of London, Cheltenham and Harrogate festivals. In June 2007 he will be completing the full cycle of Beethoven’s piano sonatas he has been presenting at the Horrues Festival, Belgium. Cedric’s solo discography, on Harmonia Mundi, has been widely acclaimed by the international press and features four recital discs: Debussy, Beethoven (Variations), Bach (Partitas), and most recently a disc with Chopin and Brahms’s Ballades. His first concerto disc, Brahms’s Concerto No.1 with the BBC Symphony and Jiri Belohlavek, will be released in September 2007. Cedric Tiberghien studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Frédéric Aguessy and Gérard Fremy and was awarded the Premier Prix in 1992, aged just 16. He was then a prizewinner at several major international piano competitions (Bremen, Dublin, Tel Aviv, Geneva, Milan), culminating with the 1st Prize at the prestigious Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris in 1998, alongside with five special awards, including the Audience Award and the Orchestra Award. This spurred on his international career, leading to over 150 engagements worldwide, including 7 visits to Japan and showcase appearances throughout Europe. Since then his career has continuously gained momentum, with appearances in some of the world’s most prestigious halls, including London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall, as well as the Salle Pleyel, Théâtre du Chatelet, Theatre des Champs Elysées in Paris. He has also taken part in many international festivals: Edinburgh, City of London, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Yokohama Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron, Toulouse Piano aux Jacobins among others. With over 50 concertos in his repertoire, Cédric Tiberghien has appeared with an impressive line-up of international orchestras, including the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Stuttgart Staatsorchester, Hamburger Philharmoniker, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, Israël Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Tokyo Philarmonic Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, and in France the Philharmonique de Radio-France, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France. His conductor collaborations include Myung-Whun Chung, Christoph Eschenbach, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Ivan Fischer, Simone Young, Leif Segerstam, Louis Langrée, Yutaka Sado, and Jerzy Semkow among many others. Cedric Tiberghien is also a dedicated chamber musicians and his regular partners include Valérie Aimard, Pierre Amoyal, Marie Hallynck, Sébastien van Kuijk, the Ysaÿe Quartet, the Diotima Quartet, the Psophos Quartet, Alain Planès, Marie Devellereau, Alina Ibragimova and Gweneth Ann-Jeffers. His enthusiasm for the genre is reflected in recordings with cellists Marie Jallynck (Schumann and Grieg sonatas on Harmonia Mundi), Valérie Aimard (French repertoire on Lyrinx), and violinists Amanda Favier (Janacek and Strauss on Lyrinx) and Vadim Tchijik (Fauré and Ravel). |
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