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"There
was lightness and grandeur, seriousness and fun, powerful momentum and
meditative restraint. Tibergien knew exactly what he wanted to say about
the music, and did so with a blend of boldness, reasoning and
inspiration.”
The Daily Telegraph, 2005
Cedric Tiberghien is one of the most exciting artists to emerge from
France in recent years. At 30 years old, he is currently receiving
exceptional exposure in the United Kingdom as one of the lead artists in
the BBC’s New Generation Artists scheme. This season he will appear with
the BBC Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony and
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Orchestre de Paris, the Hamburger
Philharmoniker, a tour with the Gelders Orkest as well as debuts with the
Sydney Symphony and West Australian Symphony. Projects with the BBC
orchestras include the complete cycle of the Beethoven concertos, and will
culminate in a Harmonia Mundi CD recording of Brahms 1 with the BBC
Symphony and Jiri Belohlavek. Other concerto highlights of this season
include the
As a recitalist, Cedric Tiberghien is due to appear at venues including
London’s Wigmore Hall and LSO St Luke’s, the Chatelet Paris, the
Beethovenfest Bonn, as well as the City of London, Cheltenham and
Harrogate festivals. In June 2007 he will be completing the full cycle of
Beethoven’s piano sonatas he has been presenting at the Horrues Festival,
Belgium.
Cedric’s solo discography, on Harmonia Mundi, has been widely acclaimed by
the international press and features four recital discs: Debussy,
Beethoven (Variations), Bach (Partitas), and most recently a disc with
Chopin and Brahms’s Ballades. His first concerto disc, Brahms’s Concerto
No.1 with the BBC Symphony and Jiri Belohlavek, will be released in
September 2007.
Cedric Tiberghien studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Frédéric Aguessy
and Gérard Fremy and was awarded the Premier Prix in 1992, aged just 16.
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 spurred 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, Vienna’s Musikverein, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Tokyo’s Suntory
Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall, as well as the Salle Pleyel, Théâtre du
Chatelet, Theatre des Champs Elysées in Paris. He has also taken part in
many international festivals: Edinburgh, City of London, 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
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Stuttgart Staatsorchester, Hamburger
Philharmoniker, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, Israël Chamber
Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Tokyo Philarmonic Orchestra,
New Japan Philharmonic, and in France the Philharmonique de Radio-France,
Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France. His conductor
collaborations include Myung-Whun Chung, Christoph Eschenbach, Lorin
Maazel, Kurt Masur, Ivan Fischer, Simone Young, Leif Segerstam, Louis
Langrée, Yutaka Sado, and Jerzy Semkow among many others.
Cedric Tiberghien is also a dedicated chamber musicians and his regular
partners include Valérie Aimard, Pierre Amoyal, Marie Hallynck, Sébastien
van Kuijk, the Ysaÿe Quartet, the Diotima Quartet, the Psophos Quartet,
Alain Planès, Marie Devellereau, Alina Ibragimova and Gweneth Ann-Jeffers.
His enthusiasm for the genre is reflected in recordings with cellists
Marie Jallynck (Schumann and Grieg sonatas on Harmonia Mundi), Valérie
Aimard (French repertoire on Lyrinx), and violinists Amanda Favier
(Janacek and Strauss on Lyrinx) and Vadim Tchijik (Fauré and Ravel).
Video of Ballade opus 10 n°1 by Brahms
Video of Ballade opus 23 n°1 by Chopin
(VPRO TV, Netherlands, 2007)
Discography ...
BRAHMS - Concerto for piano n°1 - Variations on a theme by Haydn
BBC Symphony Orchestra, dir. Jiří Bělohlávek
Harmonia Mundi
BRAHMS - Ballades, opus 10
CHOPIN - Ballades N°1-4
Harmonia Mundi (October 2006)
BACH - Partitas n° 2, 3 and 4
- Harmonia Mundi
DEBUSSY
– Estampes, Images,
Masques,
D’un cahier d’esquisses,
L’Isle joyeuse
.
Harmonia
Mundi
n°911717
(2001)
JANACEK
- Sonata for violin & piano, Romance, Dumka, Allegro
for violin & piano
STRAUSS
- Sonata for violin & piano
With
Amanda FAVIER, violin - Lyrinx
n°199 (2001)
DEBUSSY,
HONEGGER, CHAUSSON,
VIERNE
-
French music for cello and piano
With Valerie AIMARD, cello -
Lyrinx
(2002)
SCHUMANN
- Pieces for piano and cello
GRIEG - Sonata for piano and cello opus 36
With Marie HALLYNCK - Harmonia
Mundi n°911779 (2002)
BEETHOVEN
- Variations, opus 34,
opus 35 ("Eroica") and opus 76 WOo 77 à 80
Harmonia
Mundi n°901775 (2003)
FAURE, RAVEL
- Sonatas for violin and piano
With Vadim TCHIJIK - Lyrinx - To be
released in 2003.
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Concerts
... 2008
18th February 2008
Wigmore Hall – solo recital (BBC lunchtime recital)
Programme:
Beethoven Sonata Op.111
Chopin Four Ballades
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/
21st + 22nd February 2008
Göteborgs (21st) and Vara (22nd), Sweden
Göteborgs Symphony Orchestra / Robin Ticciati
Mozart Concerto No.22 in Eb Major, K482
http://www.gso.se/
2nd March 2008
Theatre Français de la Musique - solo recital
Programme :
Maurice RAVEL Alborada del Gracioso (extrait des Miroirs)
Federico MOMPOU Canciòn y danza n°9 et n°12
Claude DEBUSSY La Soirée dans Grenade (extrait des Estampes)
La Sérénade interrompue (extrait des Préludes livre I)
La Puerta del Vino (extrait des Préludes livre II)
Masques
(interval)
Isaac ALBENIZ Extraits du 2ème livre d’Iberia
- Almeria
- Triana
Federico MOMPOU Musica Callada n°6, 10, 15, 17, 19 et 27
Manuel De FALLA Fantasia Betica
http://www.theatre-imperial.com/fr/index.php
15th March 2008
Concert, Ankara, Turquie
Programme:
Poulenc: Concerto pour Deux Pianos
With : Presidential Symphony Orchestra / Muhiddin Dürrüoglu (piano)
18th March 2008
Duo recital, Musee d’Orsay, Paris
Programme:
Claude Debussy :
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, version pour 2 pianos
3 Nocturnes (transcription de Maurice Ravel)
Lindaraja, 2 pianos, L. 97
En blanc et noir, 2 pianos, L. 134
6 Épigraphes antiques pour piano 4 mains
Maurice Ravel :
La Valse, version pour 2 pianos
Robert Schumann :
6 Etudes en forme de canon pour piano 4 mains
With: François Chaplin
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html
30th March 2008
Duo recital, Theatre Français de la Musique, Compiègne (France)
Programme:
Claude Debussy :
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, version pour 2 pianos
3 Nocturnes (transcription de Maurice Ravel)
Lindaraja, 2 pianos, L. 97
En blanc et noir, 2 pianos, L. 134
6 Épigraphes antiques pour piano 4 mains
Maurice Ravel :
La Valse, version pour 2 pianos
Robert Schumann :
6 Etudes en forme de canon pour piano 4 mains
With: François Chaplin
http://www.theatre-imperial.com/fr/index.php
1st April 2008
Aix-en-Provence, Theatre du Jeu de Paume, France – solo recital
Programme :
Brahms Hungarian Dances
http://www.concertsdaix.com/
14th May 2008
Poole, UK
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop
Beethoven Concerto No.3
http://www.bsolive.com/
25th May 2008
Concert, Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
Programme:
Requiem de Brahms, "version de Londres" piano à quatre mains
With : Choeur de Chambre Les Elements, Bertrand Chamayou
http://www.jeanine-roze-production.fr/
27th May 2008
Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria – solo recital
Programme:
Bach Partita No.2 in C minor BWV826
Mozart Fantasy in C minor K475
Mozart Sonata in C minor K457
(interval)
Schubert Sonata in C minor D958
http://www.mozarteum.at/
19 June 2008
Duo recital, LSO St Luke’s, London
With Alina Ibragimova
Programme: Mozart & Szymanowski
http://lso.co.uk/lsostlukes
20 June 2008
Duo recital, Naunton, Gloucestershire, UK
With Alina Ibragimova
Programme: Mozart & Szymanowski
21 June 2008
Duo recital, East Sheen, UK
With Alina Ibragimova
Programme: Mozart & Szymanowski
23 June 2008
Solo recital, Isle of Man Festival (UK)
26-28 June 2008
Concerts in the Nord region, France (26th, 27th, 28th)
Orchestre National de Lille / Jean-Claude Casadesus
Beethoven Concerto No.5
http://www.onlille.com/home.html
3 July 2008
Recital, City of London Festival, UK
Messiaen: Le merle noir
Rameau / Couperin: Pièces
Messiaen: Catalogue d’oiseaux (extracts)
With: Emily Beynon (flute)
http://www.colf.org/
17 July 2008
Duo recital, Gower Festival, South Wales, UK
With Alina Ibragimova
Programme: Mozart & Szymanowski
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/mwinson/gowerfestival/
6 September 2008
Duo recital, Beethoven fest, Bonn (Germany)
With: Marie Hallynck (cello)
Programme: under discussion
18th September 2008
Wigmore Hall, London, UK - solo recital (Master Series)
Brahms Hungarian Dances
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/
5 October 2008
Cologne WDR Recital Hall, Germany
Brahms Hungarian Dances
9 October 2008
Duo recital, Jersey, UK
With Alina Ibragimova
Programme: Mozart & Szymanowski
http://www.thisisjersey.com/jac/
12 October 2008
Duo recital, Halesworth Festival, UK
With Alina Ibragimova
Programme: Mozart & Szymanowski
http://www.halesworthartsfestival.org.uk/
5 November 2008
Duo recital, Town Hall, Birmingham, UK
With Alina Ibragimova
Programme: Mozart & Szymanowski
http://www.thsh.co.uk/
15 November 2008
Solo recital, Soirees Musicales Piano Series, Dayton, Ohio (USA)
http://www.soireesmusicales.com/
19 November 2008
Solo recital, PCA Great Performances, Portland, Maine (USA)
http://www.pcagreatperformances.org/
20 November 2008
Solo recital, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont (USA)
http://www.middlebury.edu/
22 November 2008
Duo recital, Mapple Ridge, British Columbia (Canada)
With Alina Ibragimova
Programme: Mozart & Szymanowski
23 November 2008
Duo recital, Vancouver Recital Society (Canada)
With Alina Ibragimova
Programme: Mozart & Szymanowski
http://www.vanrecital.com/home/index.cfm?CFID=1037744&CFTOKEN=43162997
10-21 December 2008
Tour with Orchestre National d’Ile de France / Pedro Calderon
Gershwin : Concerto in F
(16 December - Concert Salle Pleyel, Paris)
http://www.orchestre-ile.com/
Media ...
“Mmmm. That authentic murmur of delight rose from the audience’s lips as Elgar’s Violin Sonata came to rest… Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien’s playing was joyfully fresh and dynamic, free from misconceptions… The performance conjured that murmur, too, because of the pair’s wonderful rapport… Both of these players have the potential to conquer the world… Tiberghien is a strong, incisive, intelligent player, but he never overbalances the mix, and watches like a hawk: qualities that also made his two-piano turn with Andrew West in Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances so compelling.”
Geoff Brown, The Times, 17 July 2007
Cheltenham Festival: Elgar Violin Sonata, Ravel Tzigane, Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances (2 pianos), 14 July 2007
“A wonderfully spirited performance. [Tiberghien and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta] caught the emotional spectrum of the central set of variations. …Tiberghien’s bravura drove the music to an impressive conculsion.”
Sam Olluver, South China Morning Post, 29 May 2007
Prokofiev Concerto No.3, Hong Kong Sinfonietta / Wing-sie Yip, 25
May 2007
“For true musical excitement, we had to skip to Brahms’s first Piano Concerto and the exciting French pianist Cédric Tiberghien (…) His performance’s special joy was the youthful exuberance and drive: entirely fitting for a work of Brahms’s youth. Tiberghien also knows how to be rapt and tiptoed; the adagio shimmered with hushed, penetrating phrasing, only excelled in poetic clarity by his Bach encore.”
Geoff Brown, The Times, 28 March 2007
Brahms Concerto No.1, BBC Symphony / Jiri Belohlavek, Barbican
Centre 26th march 2007
“A beguiling performance of Saint Saens’s second piano concerto. The lyrical, virtuoso playing of soloist Cédric Tiberghien made this a treat.”
Paul Fulford, Birmingham Mail, 13 March 2007
Saint-Saens Concerto No.2, City of birmingham Symphony Orchestra /
Louis Langrée, Symphony Hall 10th March 2007
“…the brilliant pianist Cédric Tiberghien put forth this insouciant, even bumptious concerto with a merry brio that ultimately won me over.”
Franck Cadenhead, Musical America, 4 December 2006
Shostakovich Concerto No.1, Orchestre de Paris / Rostropovich, Salle
Pleyel, 22 November 2006
“Not since Vladimir Ashkenazy’s classic 1964 set have Chopin’s Ballades sounded so emotionally rich and imposing as they do here…. There are not many players players equally successful in Chopin and Brahms, but Tiberghien bridges the stylistic chasm that separates these two composers as though it was the most natural thing in the world.”
Julian Haylock, Classic FM Magazine, November 2006
CD – Chopin, Brahms: Ballades – HMC 901943
“Tiberghien’s approach has all the requisite poetry, fire and colour, and in the taxing codas his playing is as thrilling as it is natural-sounding. …From all reports, this is how Chopin himself pplayed when he was on good form. …The piu lento sections of Chopin’s Fourth Ballade contain some of the most haunting painism I have heard in recent years. …an exceptional recording.”
Charles Timbrell, International Record Review, October 2006
CD – Chopin, Brahms: Ballades – HMC 901943
“The Brahms is throughly convincing, the murderous tale depicted in [Ballade] No.1 chillingly recreated, [Ballade] No.3 beutifully voiced with genuinely produced, hardly audible responses to Brahms’s ppp markings”.
Jeremy Nicholas, Gramophone,November 2006
CD – Chopin, Brahms: Ballades – HMC 901943
“These performances certainly captured [Schumann’s] emotional turmoil and extremes. One had to admire the immaculate tonal shadings of Tiberghien’s breathless pianissimos and the rigorous energy focussed on Schumann’s heightened outbursts.”
Kenneth Walton, The Scotsman, 18th August 2006
Edinburgh Festival - Schumann Recital, Queen’s Hall, 17 August 2006
“…a stylish account of Beethoven’s Concerto No.3, (…) which found a grace, poise and refinement that were wholly Gallic”
Michael Tumelty, The Glasgow Herald, 10 February 2006
Beethoven Concerto No.3, Glasgow City Hall, BBC Scottish Symphony / Bernhard Klee, 9 February 2006
“When a pianist devotes an entire recital to 24 preludes and fugues by Bach, you feel that he is making an emphatic statement not only about his own interpretative qualities but also about Bach as a signal point of reference for keyboard composers down through the ages. That was certainly the case in this compelling tour de force by the young French pianist Cédric Tiberghien. (…) Tiberghien plays with passion, seeking out the rich diversity of character that Bach explored in his keyboard writing, crystallising it and communicating it with intensity and subtlety. (…) Purist might baulk at Tiberghien’s romantic temperament in some of the slower preludes, but, far from being obstrusive, this was a further testament to the breadth of interpretative ideas that the music ignited in him. He could pit robust playing against hushed tranquility; he could point up lines of a complex fugue with the utmost clarity, but with a suppleness of phrasing that explored the expressiveness beneath the printed notes. There was lightness and grandeur, seriousness and fun, powerful momentum and meditative restraint. (…) Tibergien knew exactly what he wanted to say about the music, and did so with a blend of boldness, reasoning and inspiration.”
Geoffrey Norris, The Daily Telegraph, 4 November 2005
Recital, Wigmore Master Series (Bach Well-tempered Klavier Book II), 2 November 2005
“Making no apologies for using a modern Steinway, the young French pianist Cédric Tiberghien plays this music with the same gleaming, subtly coloured tone and clarity of texture he brought to his Harmonia Mundi Debussy recital. (…) the verve and strength of his rhythms, and his imaginatively “orchestrated” sonorities make the faster dances an untrammelled delight”
Richard Wigmore, The Daily Telegraph, 27 August 2005
CD Bach Partitas Nos 2,3 and 4 ( Harmonia Mundi HMC901869)
“By even the most stringent of critical criteria, Jeffers and Tiberghien gave us a recital to remember – and for all the right reasons. This was Tiberghien’s first festival appearance – and he came through with flying colours. His command of the piano is phenomenal, his ability to adapt to even the subtlest aspects of Jeffers’ vocal line a source of wonder. …Tiberghien played with all the authority and fluency one associates with Gieseking in his prime.”
Neville Cohn, Ozart Review
(Australia) - February 2004
Perth International Arts
Festival - Messiaen Songs of Love and Death
“Harmonia Mundi has once again found two outstanding young stars for its series “Les Nouveaux Musiciens” (…) Their sympathetic mutual feeling for this repertoire is completely winning. (…) Hallynck and Tiberghien both pocess sparkling technique, but their skill lies in using only that which is necessary to capture the spirit of each piece. (…). Tiberghien’s sensitivity to the orchestral qualities of the keyboard writing is superbly matched by Hallynck’s impressive tonal and dynamic range… …quite irresistible.”
The Daily Telegraph, 3 August 2002
CD Schumann and Greig sonatas for violin and piano, with Marie Hallynck (HMN911779)
“This is a remarkable debut disc by a 25-year-old pianist, who won the 1999 Long-Thibaud Competition. …Tiberghien has a deep sense of calm, as if he is considering the music at a slight distance. Yet, he is also a sensuous player, and Jardins sous la Pluie and Poissons d'Or are thrilling for their brilliant articulation and gleaming sound quality [and] Tiberghien's disc includes an outstandingly wise performance of L'Isle Joyeuse”
BBC Music Magazine
- 2001
CD
Debussy - Estampes, Images, etc. (Harmonia Mundi HMN911717)
“Tiberghien is outstanding at conveying
Debussy’s timeless, trance-like states, …and he is haunting rather than
lucid and crystalline (a common failing) in Pagodes. And if he
finds it easier to relish Debussy’s shadows rather than his sunlight, (…)
he can whip up a powerful storm in the central tumult of Reflets dans
l’Eau and reel off Masques with a suitably extrovert brio, so
that whether you see it as ‘a riot of Italian comedy’ (Cortot) or ‘the
tragedy of experience’ (Debussy) the enigma remains. ... Poissons d’Or
is magically evocative and alive with details that normally escape less
sensitive pianists.”
Gramophone
- January 2001
CD
Debussy - Estampes, Images, etc. (Harmonia Mundi HMN911717)
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