- piano
- Yevgeny Sudbin
Francesco Tristano
Paul Lewis
Cédric Tiberghien
Janina Fialkowska
Nino Gvetadze
Arthur Jussen
Lucas Jussen - Cembalo
- Mahan Esfahani
- violin
- Alina Ibragimova
- Henning Kraggerud
- Yume Fujise
- viola
- Lawrence Power
- cello
- Alisa Weilerstein
Andreas Brantelid - viola da gamba
- Fahmi Alqhai
- Guitar
- Thibaut Garcia
- Clarinet
- Annelien Van Wauwe
- chamber music
- Chiaroscuro Quartet
- soprano
- Carolyn Sampson
Cédric Tiberghien’s flourishing international career spans five continents taking him to some of the world’s most prestigious halls, including, most recently, Carnegie Hall, 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.
Highlights of the coming seasons include a debut with the London Symphony Orchestra, a major residency wih the Strasbourg Philharmonic, return engagements with the CBSO and the Hamburger Philharmoniker, and the continuation of his complete Beethoven concerto cycle with Enrique Mazzola and the Orchestre National d’Ile de France in Paris.
Recital plans include debuts in Chicago (Chicago Symphony Presents), Vienna (Konzerthaus), Amsterdam (Muziekgebouw), Seoul (Kumho Art Hall), several projects in the Wigmore Hall’s prestigious Master Series in London and a return to the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris.
Cédric Tiberghien’s latest CD release is a recital disc of Szymanowski’s music (Hyperion, February 2014) which attracted unanimous praise from the international music press (“A masterclass in refined virtuosity” – Gramophone; “Few players of this music of this music combine such clarity and articulation with shimmering sparkle and virtuosic flair. This is sophisticated pianism” – BBC Music Magazine). His discography also includes César Franck’s Symphonic Variations and Les Djinns, with the Liege Philharmonic conducted by François-Xavier Roth, 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.
With over 60 concertos in his repertoire, Cédric Tiberghien has appeared with some of the world’s finest orchestras, including the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Washington National Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Hamburger Philharmoniker, Dresden Philharmonic, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Philharmonique de Radio-France, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Sydney Symphony, Tokyo Philarmonic and New Japan Philharmonic. His conductor collaborations include Christoph Eschenbach, Jiri Belohlavek, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Simone Young, Myung-Whun Chung, Kurt Masur, Ivan Fischer, Jeffrey Tate, Louis Langrée, Ludovic Morlot, Stephane Deneve and Enrique Mazzola.
Cédric Tiberghien is also a dedicated chamber musician, with regular partners including violinist Alina Ibragimova, violist Antoine Tamestit and cellist Pieter Wispelwey. His passion for chamber music is reflected in numerous recordings: his discography with Alina Ibragimova includes Schubert (Hyperion), Ravel and Lekeu (Hyperion), Szymanowski (Hyperion), and the complete Beethoven violin sonatas (Wigmore Live). He also recently recorded a disc of French melodies with Sophie Karthauser (Cypres).
