Cedric Tiberghien

Cédric Tiberghien is one of the most exciting artists to emerge from France in recent years. Highlights among future concerto engagements include the Philharmoniker Hamburg, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Gelders Orkest, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Liege Philharmonic, Iceland Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Queensland Symphony, Adelaide Symphony, West Australian Symphony, Auckland Philharmonia, Tokyo Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, Malaysian Philharmonic and Orchestre de Paris.

As a recitalist, highlights include Berlin (Bechstein Series), London (Wigmore Hall, International Piano Series), Washington (Kennedy Centre), Tokyo (Bunka Kaikan), Copenhagen (Mogens Dahl) and Paris (Chatelet, Theatre des Champs-Elysees).

In 2011 he will be the guest of Musikkollegium Winterthur for a Bach project where he will perform the complete Book II from the well-tempered Klavier as well as two of bach’s keyboard concerti.

Cédric Tiberghien’s solo discography, on Harmonia Mundi, features a concerto disc - Brahms’s Concerto No.1 with the BBC Symphony and Jiri Belohlavek – and five recital discs: Debussy, Beethoven (Variations), Bach (Partitas), Chopin and Brahms’s Ballades and most recently a disc with Brahms’s 10 Hungarian Dances, Klaviertsucke Op.76 and Waltzes Op.39.

Cédric Tiberghien is also a dedicated chamber musician: over the 2009/10 season he will perform the complete cycle of Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas with his duo partner Alina Ibragimova at London’s Wigmore Hall, at the Jersey Arts Centre and during a residency at the Aldeburgh Festival. The duo will also perform at Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Louvre Auditorium in Paris, the Bergen Festival and during a major Musica Viva tour of Australia. Hyperion will release shortly their recording of the complete works by Szymanowski for violin and piano.

His other chamber music partners include Sophie Karthauser, Antoine Tamestit, Bertrand Chamayou, Marie Hallynck, the Moraguès Quintet, Valérie Aimard, Pierre Amoyal, the Psophos Quartet, the Ysaye Quartet, Alain Planès, Nicholas Angelich, Marie Devellereau and Gweneth-Ann Jeffers. In 2009 he will also give a few chamber concerts in the UK and Poland on tour with members of the Britten Sinfonia. His enthusiasm for the genre is further illustrated by recordings with cellists Marie Hallynck (Schumann and Grieg sonatas on Harmonia Mundi; Britten, Bacri, and Debussy sonatas on Fuga Libera), Valérie Aimard (French repertoire on Lyrinx), and violinists Amanda Favier (Janacek and Strauss on Lyrinx) and Vadim Tchijik (Fauré and Ravel).

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 prizewinner 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.

Since then his career has continuously gained momentum, with appearances in some of the world’s most prestigious halls, including London’s Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall and Royal Albert Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Sydney’s City Hall, as well as the Salle Pleyel, Théâtre du Chatelet and Theatre des Champs Elysées in Paris. He has also taken part in many international festivals: Edinburgh, City of London, BBC Proms, Lockenhaus, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Yokohama Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron, Toulouse Piano aux Jacobins among others.

With over 50 concertos in his repertoire, Cédric Tiberghien has appeared with an impressive line-up of international orchestras, including the BBC Symphony, Halle Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Tokyo Philarmonic Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Gelders Orkest, Stuttgart Staatsorchester, Hamburger Philharmoniker, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and in France the Philharmonique de Radio-France, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France. His conductor collaborations include Simone Young, Jiri Belohlavek, Myung-Whun Chung, Christoph Eschenbach, Kurt Masur, Ivan Fischer, Leif Segerstam, Louis Langrée, Yutaka Sado, and Jerzy Semkow among many others.