Born in 1992, the versatile French pianist, Jean-Baptiste Doulcet is also an accomplished improviser and composer. In 2024, Jean-Baptiste Doulcet has been performing Stravinsky’s Petrouchka with Orchestre de Paris under the baton of Klaus Mäkelä at the Paris Philharmonie, but also for the BBC PROMS and the Granada Festival. He has also been invited to play recitals and concertos at La Folle Journée in both Nantes and Tokyo, in Iasi (Romania), Paris (Salle Cortot with musicians from the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris), Festivals de Nohant and ‘Les Etoiles du Classique’, as well as part of festivals such as La Roque d'Anthéron, Lisztomanias, Piano en Valois and Piano aux Jacobins. Abroad, he regularly appears in Denmark (Aarhus Kammermuzik Festival and Copenhagen Summer Music festival), Sweden (Glafsfjordens Festival), Germany (Beethoven House), to name but a few. Having being awarded both Fourth Prize and the Audience Award at the Marguerite Long Competition, chaired by Martha Argerich, followed by the Modern Times Award at the Clara Haskil Piano Competition, both in 2019, the French pianist is also the recipient of the Second Prize of the 8th Nordic piano competition and laureate of the Charles Oulmont Foundation. One of the Rising Stars of the young generation of French pianists according to the Classica Magazine, he released his first CD in 2017 with a Beethoven/ Schumann programme, which was recorded live together with some improvisations (Les Spiriades label). In 2022, his new album, featuring works by Schumann, Liszt and one of his own compositions, was released under the title Un Monde Fantastique for the Mirare label, followed in 2024 by a Nordic album named « Søleils Blancs » , including piano works from Grieg, Sibelius and Carl Nielsen, and praised by the critics. Chamber music is also very much part of his growing career; he enjoys performing with the Oistrakh String Quartet, Augustin Dumay, Alexandre Kantorow, Marc Coppey, Quatuor Hermès, Quatuor Arod, Fédor Roudine, Quatuor Hanson, Aurélien Pascal and Raphaël Sévère. Jean-Baptiste Doulcet graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris under Claire Désert (piano and chamber music), Thierry Escaich and Jean-François Zygel (improvisation). He also benefited from the guidance of pianists such as Emile Naoumoff, Dmitri Bashkirov, Hortense Cartier-Bresson, Epifanio Comis, Alexey Lebedev, Michel Béroff, and took a perfectionnement cycle in Sweden with prof. Julia Mustonen-Dahlkvist. He is also a very prolific composer, with no less than twenty works in his catalogue comprising music for solo instruments, chamber music groups and ensembles. Lastly, he co-founded with his wife the French Connection Academy, an international academy based in Denmark and open for young musicians, creating a deep cultural bridge between France and Nordic countries.

Spoken language : English, French

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