Guillaume Vincent (pianist)
Guillaume Vincent (born October 9, 1991 ) in Annecy is a French pianist .
biography
Guillaume Vincent started playing the piano at the age of seven. He gave his first concerts with orchestral accompaniment at the age of 10. In the following years he played Mozart's Concerto No. 21 and Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto in C minor. At the age of 13, François-René Duchâble , who had known him from birth , enabled him to study in the class of Jacques Rouvier and Prisca Benoit at the Conservatoire de Paris . He also studied piano with Jean-François Heisser and Marie-Josèphe Jude and harmony with Yves Henry and took master classes with Duchâble. In 2011 he received his third cycle diploma for artistic interpretation.
In 2008 Vincent received first prize at the Clara Schumann Competition for Young Pianists in Leipzig. A year later he received the third Grand Prix at the Long-Thibaud-Crespin competition in Paris and the prize of the Orchester National de France .
Vincent has played in the Suntory Hall Tokyo, the Barbican Hall London, the Theater Champs-Elysées, the Salle Pleyel and the Salle Gaveau, both in Paris, in the Palace of the Arts in Budapest, and in the Simón Bolívar Hall in Caracas. He played with orchestras such as the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bordeaux National Orchestra, the Lille National Orchestra, the Toulouse National Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Vincent prefers to play romantic composers, including Chopin , Liszt ( Années de pèlerinage ), the 2nd piano concerto by Saint-Saëns or Rachmaninov , but also composers from later eras such as Satie or the concerto for 2 pianos by Poulenc . He also performs with chamber music ensembles.
His first CD recording (double CD) in 2012 were the Preludes of Rachmaninoff with Naïve ( 10 Preludes, op. 23 , 13 Preludes, op. 32 , Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3 No. 2 ).
Web links
- Guillaume Vincent's homepage
- Guillaume Vincent talks about his Rachmaninoff recording ( YouTube November 6, 2012)
- Guillaume Vincent - Charly Mandon, Prelude - Stephen Paulello «Opus 102 (YouTube March 1, 2017)
- Guillaume Vincent: Son premier concerto (interview on Classiquemaispashasbeen.fr)
- Guillaume Vincent Plays The Music Of Erik Satie - Past Daily Mid-Week Concert (concert recording at the Musée d'Orsay, recording: February 16, 2016)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vincent, Guillaume |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Annecy |