David Fray

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David Fray (2009)

David Fray [david frɛ] (born May 24, 1981 in Tarbes , Pyrenees ) is a French pianist who became a piano shooting star when he stepped in for the sick Hélène Grimaud in Paris and Brussels at concerts of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in June 2006 .

Life

He is the son of a Kant and Hegel researcher and a teacher with Czech-Polish-Finnish roots. David Fray began playing the piano at the age of four. His teacher was Jacques Rouvier, who also gave lessons to his French piano colleague Hélène Grimaud .

In addition to numerous prizes and awards, he won the Diploma of Outstanding Merit at the international Hamamatsu piano competition in Japan, the title of Young Talent of the Year from the Commission des Radios Francophones in Montréal (2004) and was elected Young Artist of the Year in France in 2004 . In 2008, Fray received two awards for his Bach / Boulez CD: BBC Music Magazine named him Newcomer of the Year , and he also received the German ECHO Klassik 2008 in the solo recording category 20./21. Century .

David Fray made his first orchestral CD with piano concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach (piano concerto in A major BWV 1055, piano concerto in f minor BWV 1056, piano concerto in g minor BWV 1058, piano concerto in d minor BWV 1052) with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie in 2008 Bremen recorded in the rehearsal hall of the orchestra in Bremen Osterholz-Tenever. The filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon filmed the pianist in Swing, sing & think on these CD recordings.

On October 18, 2009, the German Phono Academy honored him for these recordings: Fray was awarded the Echo Klassik 2009 in the Instrumentalist of the Year category at the Dresden Semperoper . In the same category, Fray was awarded the coveted French music prize Les Victoires de la musique classique on February 8, 2010 .

Fray, who is often compared to the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould because of his habitus , himself describes the German pianist Wilhelm Kempff as his role model. His singing, groping and yet narrative grand piano style characterizes one of “the most independent piano ghosts of the present”, wrote Kai Luehrs-Kaiser in Der Spiegel and added: “Fray plays the most exciting Bach in decades.”

He has been married to the Italian actress Chiara Muti since 2008; the conductor Riccardo Muti is his father-in-law.

Discography

  • Bach & Boulez - Erato, May 2007
  • Bach: Piano Concertos - Erato, November 2008
  • Schubert: Impromptus Op. 90 Moments Musicaux Allegre - Erato, October 2009
  • Mozart: Concertos No. 22, 25 - Erato, November 2010
  • JS Bach Piano Works - Erato, January 2013
  • Schubert: Fantaisie - with Jacques Rouvier , Erato, February 2015
  • Chopin - Erato, February 2017
  • Bach: Concertos pour 2, 3 & 4 pianos, November 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kai Luehrs-Kaiser: Piano virtuoso David Fray: Fast thinker in the slow frenzy . SpiegelOnline of December 31, 2008, accessed on September 9, 2013.
  2. ↑ Plush remains forbidden . Die Welt, December 20, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Fray, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pianist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarbes , Pyrenees , France