Dominic Chamot - Piano Recital
© Droits Réservés
Full
- Prices
- 25€ - 40€
- Date
- 13 February 2025 – 8:30pm
- Place
- Auditorium
- Hours
- 8.30 p.m.
At the age of 29, pianist Dominic Chamot retains his youthful rising-star appeal: the child prodigy from Cologne has swept international competitions, winning awards such as First Prize at the prestigious Viotti Piano Competition in 2023.
This concert is sold out and will be broadcast live and in replay on FLV Play and offline on Radio Classique.
After performing recitals and concerts in some fifteen countries, the young musician settled in Paris to follow the sage instruction of Rena Shereshevskaya. For his first recital at the Fondation, he has composed a programme consisting of monuments of the piano repertoire: the Liszt Sonata, a vast fresco of profound lyricism, Ravel’s formidable La Valse, with its thousand acoustic hues, and the breathtaking virtuosity of Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme of Corelli.
Detailed programme:
- CHOPIN/LISZT
Excerpts from Six Polish Songs, S. 480
Mädchens Wunsch – Życzenie
Heimkehr – Narzeczony - FRANZ LISZT
Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178 - SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42 - MAURICE RAVEL
La Valse
Dominic Chamot
The pianist Dominic Chamot was born in Cologne in 1995. He is the winner of the Viotti, Ferrol and CIPCE competitions, as well as six other competitions. He has also won 24 other prizes and awards at competitions such as Maria-Canals, Brescia Classica and many more.
His career began at a young age when, at the age of 12, he was admitted to the class of Prof. Sheila Arnold at the Pre-College-Cologne of the HfMT Cologne, which provided him with crucial musical impulses. Soon after, he received international awards in Berlin, Zwickau, Enschede, Weimar, Cologne, etc., as well as performances in prestigious venues such as the Berlin and Cologne Philharmonie, the Wiener Musikverein, Palau de la Musica Catalana Barcelona, and many others.
Chamot then deepened his studies with the famous pedagogue Claudio Martinez-Mehner in Basel. He completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Specialised Performance (Soloist) with top grades and honors, and at the end of his pedagogy studies with Zoltan Fejervari, he also won the award for the best recital of the year at the renowned Basel Music Academy. Since 2024 he receives lessons from Rena Shereshevskaya as part of the “Elite”-programme at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris.
Meanwhile, his reputation as a versatile musician developed, leading to performances worldwide. He played concerts in over 15 countries on 4 continents, recently performed multiple times at the Berlin Philharmonie, won some of Switzerland's most exclusive scholarships during his studies, and was invited by the WDR Symphony Orchestra as a soloist for a concert at the Cologne Philharmonie. After these successes, further invitations followed from orchestras throughout Germany, as well as the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, ORF Symphony Orchestra Vienna, Basel Symphony Orchestra, and many more. In New York, he captivated the audience with his performance at the Steinway Hall as part of the "Classical Bridge Festival." He has collaborated with conductors such as Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Cornelius Meister, Joseph Bastian, and many others.
He is also in high demand as a chamber musician: he is repeatedly invited to festivals (Gstaad, Davos, Schwetzingen Mozart Festival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival), regularly performs with musicians from Switzerland's top orchestras (Tonhalle Zurich, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra, among others), and released a duo CD with Sergio Pires, principal clarinetist of the London Symphony Orchestra. Other chamber music partners included Kian Soltani, Sirena Huang, Lisa Jacobs, Joe Christophe, Anna Agafia Egholm, and many more.
Dominic Chamot received scholarships from the Jürgen Ponto Stiftung, Deutschen Stiftung Musikleben, Migros-Kulturprozent, Lieven Piano Foundation, Jmanuel und Evamaria Schenk Stiftung, Stiftung für junge Musiktalente Meggen, and the Kiefer Hablitzel Stiftung.
