David Fray
Piano
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The French pianist David Fray is one of the most sought-after musicians of his generation, especially when it comes to Bach. His repertoire reflects a certain penchant for composers in the great German-Austrian tradition, but also Chopin, Ravel and contemporary music. Born in 1981 in Tarbes, in the South of France, to a German teacher and a Kant & Hegel researcher, he started playing the piano when he was four, later graduating from the Jacques Rouvier am Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris with distinction. His career was nurtured by leading artists including Paul Badura-Skoda, Christoph Eschenbach and Pierre Boulez. He works regularly with well known conductors including Marin Alsop, Christoph Eschenbach, Lawrence Foster, Daniele Gatti, Riccardo Muti, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Jaap van Zweden and has appeared with many of the world's leading orchestras. He has performed at the Salzburg Festival, the Mostly Mozart Festival New York, the BBC Proms, in Tanglewood and practically every leading concert hall in Europe, Asia and the USA, including the Wigmore Hall in London, the Musikverein in Vienna and Carnegie Hall in New York. Highlights during the 2021/22 season include concerts with Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo and Cecilia Bartoli, the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra and Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. Solo concerts in the Liederhalle Stuttgart, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Paris, a tour of Asia, recitals with Peter Mattei at the Turku Music Festival and a special concert with Fatma Said at the Eiffel Tower. He will also be accompanying the Hamburg Ballet in a Schubert project. Many of his prize winning recordings were also great successes with the press and public. An exclusive Erato (Warner Classics) artist, recent releases have included Bach violin sonatas with Renaud Capuçon, Bach concertos for two to five pianos and his Bach Goldberg Variation goes on sale in November.