François-René Duchâble

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François-René Duchâble is a French pianist born in Paris in 1952.

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François-René Duchâble studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, and at the age of 13 won the institution's first prize in piano. Three years later he placed 11th at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels, and in 1973 he won the Prix de la Fondation Sacha Schneider; at that time Duchâble caught the attention of the legendary Artur Rubinstein, who encouraged him to pursue a solo career and helped him secure his first important engagements. Since then, Duchâble has enjoyed a highly successful concert career in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.

Duchâble has been recognized for his performances of a wide swath of the standard repertory, including the concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, Robert Schumann, Bartók and Ravel, and solo piano works of Lizst, Chopin, and Poulenc. He has appeared at many prestigious music festivals, including those of Salzburg, Lucerne, Berlin, the London Proms, Lockenhaus, and the Flanders Festival, and has presented concerts at London's Royal Festival Hall, the Philharmonie in Berlin, and the Musikverein in Vienna. As an orchestral soloist, Duchâble has performed with the London Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and the Montreal Symphony.