BIOGRAPHY
I am a concert pianist, doctor of music and composer. I was born in France in 1987. I began my musical studies at the Nice Conservatoire (France), where I was awarded the Prix de Piano. Later on, I became a student at the prestigious Ecole Normale Alfred Cortot in Paris, I graduated the Diplome Professionnel de Piano in 2007. I am a prize winner in several international piano competitions: Unesco (2002), Flame (2003), Rodolfo-Caporali (2007), Brest-Chopin (2007), Simone-Delbert (2009). I benefited from the precious artistic guidance of Andras Schiff, Christopher Elton, Christian Zacharias, Kyoko Hashimoto, Sergio Perticaroli, Rena Shereshevskaya, Desire N’Kaoua, Philippe Bianconi.
I completed academic studies in France and in Canada, from Bachelor to Doctorate, at Universite Paris IV Sorbonne, at Universite de Nice and at McGill University. In 2017, I was awarded the title of Doctor in Music at the end of my Doctoral program at Université de Nice (France) and in 2020 the title of Doctor in Music Performance from McGill University. My research has been published in several scientific reviews in France, Italy, Romania, Canada (OICRM, Studia Universitatis, Musicology Papers, Steaua, Eunomios, l’Education Musicale, Le Cercle).
My career led me to play in many concert halls and festivals in North America and in Europe such as: Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen, Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, Salle Cortot in Paris, Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, Teatro del Verme Milano, Krakow Philharmonia, Vietnam Music Academy Recital Hall, Filarmonica de Stadt Cluj, Filarmonica Dinu Lipatti, Filarmonica Oltenia, Filarmonica Targu-Mures, Chapelle du Bon-Pasteur Montreal. I was the guest of renowned festivals in France, Canada, Vietnam, Italy, Germany, Poland, Romania, such as the Jozef Zeidler Festival, the Vietnam Music Connection, les Nuits du Suquet de Cannes, the 60th Festival de Musique de Menton, the 30th Festival Chopin w barwach jesieni, the International Mozart Festival of Cluj, Piano HomeComing Montreal, The Musical Chairs, Toamna Muzicala Cluj, the Printemps Musical de St Tropez and many more.
I have recorded a live CD of the two Chopin piano concertos at the Chopin 1810-2010 Festival in Poland, under the baton of Marcin Sompolinski. For Polish Radio label, I have also recorded a world premiere CD of the complete piano music of Alfons Szczerbinski. I have played with several orchestras in Europe, such as the Transilvanian State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dinu Lipatti Philharmonic Orchestra, the Oltenia Philharmonic Orchestra, Orkiestra Nova, The Beethoven Young Academy Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Cannes PACA, the Young Famous Orchestra of Romania, The Chamber Orchestra of Poznan, and I am also a very active performer in chamber music ensembles. My chamber music repertoire covers extensive works from early music to XXth century.
I have recreated the “Ballet du Temps” (1654) whom I rewrote all the missing parts from the manuscript, with the ensemble "IntAct" I founded in Montreal, made up of professional early music performers. In 2008, I founded in Paris the Ensemble Musica Tempora, made up of professional musicians playing on period instruments. We performed works by Charpentier, Campra, Desmarets, and Lully. I have a deep knowledge of continuo playing and extensive improvisation skills through my experiences in early music spread over more than 10 years.
A sought-after professor, I am frequently invited to give masterclasses in Europe and Asia (Poland, France, Romania, Vietnam). My professional teaching background includes two years as Teaching Assistant in applied Piano Performance at McGill University and three years as Lecturer at the Université de Nice. Actually, I am teaching at the National Academy of Music "Gheorghe Dima" of Cluj (Romania) as Lecturer Tenure of Piano. I also am the Artistic Director of the SCENA International Festival. I have been sitting as a member of jury during the international piano competitions Simone-Delbert (2010), Carl Filtsch (2016), Mozart Cluj (2019) and Nice International Piano Competition (2022).
As a passionate of composition since my young age, I am the author of three feature length films and many international short-movies soundtracks. Some of these movies have been selected to Festival des Canaries (2014), Seoul Movie Festival (2013) and Cannes Junior Festival (2013). In 2022, my piece "Reculegere" for soprano and orchestra, comissioned by the Young Famous Orchestra, was played in world-premiere. My catalogue consists of several lieder for singer and piano, two orchestral poems, and a piano solo triptych “Reflets” inspired by the three Sonnets of Mihai Eminescu (edited by Arpeggione).