Cédric Tiberghien

Introduction

Cédric Tiberghien’s flourishing international career sees him performing across five continents in some of the world’s most prestigious halls. His recent US concerto debut with the National Symphony in Washinton DC (Eschenbach), attracted unanimous critical acclaim and led to an immediate invitation from the Boston Symphony Orchestra for an appearance in the orchestra’s 11/12 subscription series, as well as a concert at Carnegie Hall, New York. Other concerto highlights to come include the Seattle Symphony, NHK Symphony Tokyo, RTE National Symphony of Ireland, Sao Paulo Symphony (Marin Alsop), extensive touring in Australia and a complete cycle of the Beethoven Piano Concertos with the Orchestre National d’Ile de France (Mazzola). Recital plans include appearances in the Wigmore Hall’s prestigious Master Series for the next three seasons, as well as at the Bozar and La Monnaie in Brussels, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam,  Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional, Berlin’s Philharmonie and Konzerthaus, and Summer festivals throughout Europe.

Biography

Cédric Tiberghien’s flourishing international career sees him performing across five continents in some of the world’s most prestigious halls, including, most recently, the Kennedy Centre in Washington, the Royal Albert Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall and Barbican in London, the Salle Pleyel and the Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris, Berlin’s Bechstein Hall, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, the Sydney Opera and Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan and Asahi Halls.

His recent debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, performing Ravel’s Concerto in G at Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall attracted unanimous acclaim from the press.  The New York Times stated that “the highlight was a fresh and dazzling account of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, with the brilliant French pianist Cédric Tiberghien, who played with rich, rounded tone in the lyrical stretches and fleet, crisp articulation in the spiraling, jazzy, virtuosic passages". The Boston Globe saluted a “very impressive BSO debut. He showed a flair for interpretive risk (…) Tiberghien alternated between a sizable, almost declamatory sound and an ethereal stage whisper."

Future concerto highlights include debuts with the Seattle Symphony (Morlot), Cincinnati Symphony (Langrée), Rotterdam Philharmonic (Nézet-Séguin), City of Birmingham Symphony (Gardner), Brussels Philharmonic (Otaka), Sao Paulo Symphony (Alsop), as well as return engagements with the Seoul Philharmonic (Asian premiere of a new piano concerto by Tristan Murail), Hong Kong Sinfonietta, West Australian Symphony, Strasbourg Philharmonic, and a complete Beethoven concerto cycle with the Orchestre National d’Ile de France.

Recital plans include several projects at the Wigmore Hall’s prestigious Master Series in London, debuts in  Rome (Accademia Filarmonica), Melbourne (Melbourne Recital Centre), as well as return appearances in London’s International Piano Series, and in Summer festivals throughout Europe.

Cédric Tiberghien’s most recent CD release features César Franck’s Symphonic Variations and Les Djinns, with the Liege Philharmonic conducted by François-Xavier Roth (Cyprès, April 2011). His discography also includes Brahms’s Concerto No.1 with the BBC Symphony and Jiri Belohlavek and six recital discs on Harmonia Mundi: Debussy,  Beethoven Variations, Bach Partitas, Chopin and Brahms Ballades, Brahms Hungarian Dances, and a recital of Chopin Mazurkas.

Cédric Tiberghien studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Frédéric Aguessy and Gérard Frémy and was awarded the Premier Prix in 1992, aged just 17. He was then a prize winner 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 propelled on his international career, leading to over 150 engagements worldwide, including 7 visits to Japan and showcase appearances throughout Europe.

With over 60 concertos in his repertoire, Cédric Tiberghien has appeared with some of the world’s finest orchestras, including the Boston Symphony, Washington National Symphony, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Hallé Orchestra, Philharmonique de Radio-France, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Sydney Symphony, Tokyo Philarmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Gelders Orkest, Stuttgart Staatsorchester, Hamburger Philharmoniker and Dresden Philharmonic. His conductor collaborations include Christoph Eschenbach, Jiri Belohlavek, Lionel Bringuier, Robin Ticciati, Simone Young, Myung-Whun Chung, Kurt Masur, Ivan Fischer, Leif Segerstam, Louis Langrée, Yutaka Sado, and Jerzy Semkow among many others.

Cédric Tiberghien is also a dedicated chamber musician, with regular partners including violinist Alina Ibragimova, soprano Sophie Karthäuser and cellist Pieter Wispelwey. His passion for chamber music is reflected in numerous recordings – most lately a Ravel/Lekeu disc (Hyperion), the complete works for violin and piano by Szymanowski (Hyperion), and the complete Beethoven violin sonatas (Wigmore Live), all with Alina Ibragimova.

Please contact Fiona Russell for a full up-to-date biography.

Press Reviews

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 “the highlight was a fresh and dazzling account of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, with the brilliant French pianist Cédric Tiberghien, who played with rich, rounded tone in the lyrical stretches and fleet, crisp articulation in the spiraling, jazzy, virtuosic passages" 
New York Times, March 2012
Boston Symphony, Carnegie Hall.

“very impressive BSO debut. He showed a flair for interpretive risk …Tiberghien alternated between a sizable, almost declamatory sound and an ethereal stage whisper."
Boston Globe, March 2012
Ravel Concerto in G, Boston Symphony

 

"Sein Landsmann Cédric Tiberghien machte aktuell mit zarten, aber bewussten Pianissimi des Klavierparts auf den beginnenden Impressionismus darin aufmerksam. Nicht zufällig wählte der solistische Debussy-Experte als Zugabe dessen "L’Isle joyeuse". Hinreißend!"
Wiener Zeitung, May 2011
Franck Symphonic Variations, Musikverein Vienna

 

"Virtuose hors du commun, Cédric Tiberghien peut aussi se métamorphoser en magicien au toucher impalpable, d'une limpidité poétique à donner le frisson."

Le Soir, May 2011

Franck Symphonic Variations, Musikverein Vienna

 

"Cédric Tiberghien’s mastery of Messiaen’s piano part was passionate and impressive, at times dominating the orchestra, at other times weaving in and out of the orchestral fabric adding life and color to the finished piece.’
The Washington Times, March 2011
Turangalîla Symphony, National Symphony Washington

‘…pianist Cedric Tiberghien, who was almost spookily unfazed by the wildest demands of the keyboard part and who summoned a great deal of color and expressive power’
The Baltimore Sun, 14 March 2011
Turangalîla Symphony, National Symphony Washington

"Cedric Tiberghien did a superb job, hurling himself into the crazy passage-work like a child on a skateboard, never falling off"
The Washington Post
Turangalîla Symphony, National Symphony Washington

"He probed each piece with the most refined curiosity, to revelatory effect. Some Mazurkas seemed to grow up out of the earth, others became an interplay of  constantly shifting perspectives; his rubatos had the most pursuavive push and pull, and his cantabiles were ineffably sweet. "
International Piano, Jan/Feb 11 . 
Recital, Chopin Society, London

“Tiberghien infallibly conveys the individual character of these miniatures, defining the danse pulse instinctively. He seems to have the poise and poetry of Chopin in his blood. He makes the piano sing. An imaginative disc of shifting moods that are readily within Tiberghien’s expressive orbit and which he interprets with sublime inspiration.”
The Daily Telegraph, October 2010
CD: Chopin Mazurkas

"A true Chopin interpreter, Tiberghien knows how to make his silences sing.”
Audiophile Audition, October 2010
CD: Chopin Mazurkas

“In Tiberghien’s hands the other twelve Mazurkas become the most exquisite songs without words, each with their own private narrative yet one to which we can all relate.”
International Piano, Nov/Dec 2010
CD: Chopin Mazurkas

'Playing with a feather-light touch and stretching the tempos in the slow introductions of all of the ballades, [Tiberghien] drew a hushed, ruminative quality from those early measures before diving headlong into the tempestuous music that followed. Throughout these works, Tiberghien emphasized contrasts--between inner dialogue and hectoring outburst, improvisatory noodling and grand rhetoric, elegant restraint and frank passion. [...] More significantly, he made everything in these mercurial scores sound personal, as if his own warring emotions were finding spontaneous expression in the music under his fingers. [...] This was Chopin playing as layered and complete as anyone is likely to hear.'
The Washington Post, September 2009
Recital, Washington Performing Arts Society
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'Tiberghien leaps from the ruck of talented young pianists by making the music his own, taking you on to a plane where the interpreter's craft is fully disposed to communicating the music's fundamentals.’
The Age, Melbourne, August 2009
Piano! Festival, Melbourne

'Ten Hungarian dances, 16 waltzes, four capriccios, four intermezzos: all by Brahms, performed by the French pianist Cedric Tiberghien with a fluent command that never once turns superficial.  He carefully balances the art/folk elements in the Hungarian set.  The glitter and poetry of the 16 waltzes are equally well pitched.  At the centre lie Brahms’s Op 76 pieces—restless, tender, hesitantly charming, with Tiberghien the master of every mood.  No wonder he’s a rising star.’
The Times, October 2008
CD: Brahms Hungarian Dances

'Finger power, intelligence and heart were at the centre of Cédric Tiberghien's programme of Bartók and Brahms.
Tiberghien's music-making is never superficial. No one cruising on the surface could give us Brahms's Op 76 piano pieces with his degree of poetic understanding or structural control. […] his sense of shape and texture was masterly. And how carefully he judged the necessary weight of each sound. Clearly, Tiberghien is very comfortable with Brahms […] We were under a spell immediately in the “night music” movement of [Bartok’s] Out of Doors, as he teased out and balanced the cries and whispers, each hand colouring the night differently.
Similar dexterity and clarity worked wonders in Bartók's early Hungarian Folk Songs from Csik. The Mikrokosmos selection and the six Romanian Folk Dances gave us the same essential strengths: finger power, intelligence, heart, the music's details polished without any loss of the big picture. When Tiberghien next plays in London, be there.'
The Times, September 2008
Recital: Wigmore Hall 

Discography

FRANCK
Symphonic Variations; "Les Djinns"
Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège / François-Xavier Roth
Cyprès CYP7612 (2011)

CHOPIN
Mazurkas
Scherzo no1, Nocture op48/1 Polonaise-Fantasie
Harmonia Mundi HMC902073 (2010)

MARTINU
Toccata e Due Canzoni
Prague Philharmonia / Jiri Belohlavek
Harmonia Mundi HMC901951 (2008)

BRAHMS
Hungarian Dances; Waltzes Op.39; Klavierstucke Op.76
Harmonia Mundi HMC902015  (2008)
  
 
BRAHMS
Concerto No.1
BBC Symphony / Jiri Belohlavek
Harmonia Mundi 901977 (2007)

BRAHMS AND CHOPIN
Ballades
Harmonia Mundi HMC 901943  (2006)

BACH
Partitas Nos. 2, 3 and 4
Harmonia Mundi HMN 901869 (2005)
  
 
BEETHOVEN
Variations
Including Eroica, 32 Variations, Rule Britania, God Save the King
Harmonia Mundi HMN 901775 (2003)


DEBUSSY
Estampes, Images, Masques, D’un Cahier d’Esquisse, L’Isle Joyeuse
Harmonia Mundi HMN 911717  (2000)
                

CHAMBER MUSIC RECORDINGS:

BEETHOVEN
Complete Violin Sonatas
Alina Ibragimova, violin
Wigmore Live

Szymanowski complete music for violin and piano
Alina Ibragimova, violin
Hyperion CDA67703 
 
 
Schumann and Grieg Violin Sonatas
Marie Hallynck, violin
Harmonia Mundi HMN 911779 

 
Fauré and Ravel Violin Sonatas
Vadim Tchijik, violin
Lyrinx 
 
French Music for Cello and Piano
Debussy, Honegger, Chausson, Vierne
Valérie Aimard, cello
Lyrinx

'Budapest 1900': Cello sonatas by Dohnanyi, Kodaly and Bartok
Valérie Aimard, cello
Lyrinx 

Janacek and Strauss Violin Sonatas
Amanda Favier, violin
Lyrinx 

Repertoire

Please note: this repertoire list is for reference only. The choice of repertoire for a particular project remains at the artist’s discretion.

CONCERTO

ARNOLD
Concerto for Four Hands Op.32

BACH
Concerto in D minor BWV 1052
Concerto in F minor BWV 1056
Concerto for 3 piano in C major (I)
Concerto for 4 pianos in A minor (I and IV)

BARTOK
Concerto n°2
Concerto n°3

BEETHOVEN
Concerto n°1
Concerto n°2
Concerto n°3
Concerto n°4
Concerto n°5
Choral fantasy op.80
Triple concerto

BERNSTEIN
Symphony No.2 "The Age of Anxiety"

BRAHMS
Concerto n°1
Concerto n°2

CHOPIN
Concerto n°1
Concerto n°2

FALLA
Nights in Spain Gardens

FAURE
Ballade

FEDELE
De li duo soli e infiniti universi for 2 pianos and 2 orchestras

FRANCAIX
Concertino

FRANCK
Symphonic Variations
Les Djinns

GERSHWIN
Concerto in F
Rhapsody in Blue

GRIEG
Piano Concerto

HAYDN
Concerto in D major

LISZT
Concerto n°1
Concerto n°2

MARTINU
Toccata e Due Canzone

MENDELSSOHN
Concerto n°1
Concerto for violin and piano

MERNIER
Piano Concerto (premiered in Brussels June 2008)

MESSIAEN
Des Canyons aux étoiles
Oiseaux Exotiques
Turangalila Symphonie
Couleurs de la Cite Celeste

MOZART
Concerto n°9 K.271 in E flat 'Jeunehomme'
Concerto n°11 K.413 in F
Concerto n°12 K.414 in A
Concerto n°13 K.415 in C
Concerto n°17 K.453 in G
Concerto n°20 K.466 in D minor
Concerto n°21 K.467 in C
Concerto n°22 K.482 in E flat
Concerto n°23 K.488 in A
Concerto n°27 K.595 in B flat
Concerto n°10 for 2 pianos K.365(I)
Allegro for violin and piano (arr.Gonin)

PROKOVIEV
Concerto n°1
Concerto n°2
Concerto n°3

RACHMANINOV
Concerto n°2
Concerto n°3

RAVEL
Concerto in G major
Concerto for the left hand

SAINT-SAENS
Concerto n°2
Concerto n°5

SCHUMANN
Concerto in A minor
Introduction and allegro appassionato

SCRIABIN
Prometheus (Symphony No.5)

SHOSTAKOVICH
Concerto n°1 for piano, strings and trumpet
Concerto n°2

SZYMANOWSKI
Symphony n°4, Op.60 (Sinfonia Concertante)

TCHAIKOVSKY
Concerto n°1 Op.23

Links

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Contact

Gaetan Le Divelec

Fiona Russell

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Italy: AMC
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Japan: Pacific Concert Management
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North America: Colbert Artists Management
Email: Lee Prinz

Biographie en français

Au cours des cinq dernières années la carrière internationale de Cédric Tiberghien s'est épanouie sur cinq continents, le voyant apparaitre sur les scènes les plus prestigieuses du monde, y compris le Kennedy Center à Washington, Musikverein de Vienne, Salle Pleyel et Théatre des Champs-Elysées à Paris, Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall à Londres, Salle Bechstein à Berlin, Mozarteum de Salzbourg, Opera de Sydney, Bunka Kaikan et Asahi Hall à Tokyo.

Son récent début en concerto aux Etats-Unis, avec le National Symphony Orchestra de Washington (Eschenbach), a reçu des éloges unanimes de la presse américaine et lui a valu une invitation immédiate du Boston Symphony Orchestra pour série d’abonnement 11/12 de l'orchestre, ainsi qu’un concert au Carnegie Hall de New York. Au cours des prochaines saisons, il apparaitra également avec le Seattle Symphony (Morlot), NHK Symphony, l’Orchestre Symphonique de Sao Paulo (Marin Alsop), le National Symphony d’Irelande, avec l’Orchestre National d’Ile de France (Mazzola) pour un cycle complet des concertos de Beethoven, ainsi qu’une tournée en Australasie avec les orchestres symphoniques de Melbourne, Perth, Queensland, Adelaide, Tasmanie et Auckland. En 10/11, les orchestres Musikkollegium Winterthur  Philharmonique de Arnhem l'ont chacun invité pour une mini-résidence consistant de concertos, récitals et de musique de chambre et l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Liege l’a invité à être son soliste pour une tournée européenne (Musikverein de Vienne, Concertgebouw d’Amsterdam).

Le Wigmore Hall de Londres l’a engagé pour donner des récitals dans sa prestigieuse Master Series pour les quatre saison à venir. Il apparaitra également à Bruzelles (Bozar), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Berlin (Philharmonie, Konzerthaus), Madrid (Auditorio Nacional), ainsi que dans des festivals d’été à travers l’Europe.

Le dernier  disque de Cédric – Variations Symphoniques et « Les Djinns » de César Franck avec l’Orchestre Philharmonqiue de Liège et François-Xavier Roth –  est sorti en Avril 2011 sur le label Cyprès. La discographie en solo de Cédric compte d’autre part le Concerto No.1 de Brahms avec le BBC Symphony et Jiri Belohlavek, ainsi que six disques en récital sur Harmonia Mundi: Debussy, Variations de Beethoven, Partitas de Bach, Ballades de Chopin et Brahms, Danses Hongroises de Brahms, et un récital de Mazurkas de Chopin.

Cédric a étudié au Conservatoire de Paris avec Frédéric Aguessy et Gérard Frémy, où il a reçu le Premier Prix en 1992 à l’âge de 17 ans. Il a été ensuite lauréat de plusieurs grands concours internationaux (Bremen, Dublin, Tel Aviv, Genève, Milan), avant de remporter le 1er Prix du prestigieux Concours Marguerite Long – Jacques Thibaud de 1998, ainsi que cinq prix spéciaux du concours, y compris le Prix du Public et le Prix de l’Orchestre. Ce succès a lancé sa carrière sur le circuit international, aboutissant à plus de 150 engagements dans le monde entier, dont 7 visites au Japon et des récitals à travers l’Europe.

Avec plus de 60 concertos à son répertoire, Cédric Tiberghien est apparu avec un palmarès impressionnant d’orchestres internationaux et français, y compris le National Symphony de Washington, la Philharmonie Tchèque, BBC Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Hamburger Philharmoniker, BBC Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Tonhalle de Zurich, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France et Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France. Les chefs avec lesquels il a collaboré comprennent Jiri Belohlavek, Mstislav Rostropovitch, Myung-Whun  Chung, Christoph Eschenbach, Kurt Masur, Ivan Fischer, Simone Young, Ingo Metzmacher, Leif Segerstam, Louis Langrée, et Jerzy Semkov, parmi beaucoup d’autres.

Cédric Tiberghien est également un musicien de chambre enthousiaste, comptant parmi ses partenaires la violoniste Alina Ibragimova, la soprano Sophie Karthäuser et le violoncelliste Pieter Wispelwey. Sa passion pour la musique de chambre est illustrée par les enregistrements qu’il a réalisés dans ce domaine – tout dernièrement les œuvres de Szymanowski pour violon et piano (Hyperion) et un cycle des sonates pour violon Beethoven (Wigmore Live), avec Alina Ibragimova.

May 2011

Schedule

Sapporo Concert Hall
22 June 2012 19.00

Sapporo Concert Hall
23 June 2012 15.00

Perth Concert Hall, AUS
5 July 2012 11.00

Perth Concert Hall, AUS
6 July 2012 19.30

Perth Concert Hall, AUS
7 July 2012 19.30

Melbourne Recital Centre
10 July 2012 19.30

Hindsgavl Festival
15 July 2012 20.00

Hindsgavl Festival
17 July 2012 20.00

Festival du Chambord
19 July 2012

Music at Paxton
21 July 2012 19.30

Music at Paxton
22 July 2012 18.30

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