Jonathan fournel biography

Jonathan Fournel was born in Sarrebourg on 2 October 1993.
French pianist Jonathan Fournel is the winner of the 2021 Queen Elisabeth Competition.
First Prize winner of the 2021 Queen Elisabeth Competition at the age of 27, Jonathan Fournel is a worthy heir of the great French piano tradition.

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Biography Jonathan Fournel, Keigo Mukawa, Sergei Redkin

Jonathan Fournel
studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Saarbrücken under Robert Leonardy, then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he took classes with Bruno Rigutto, Brigitte Engerer, Claire Désert, and Michel Dalberto. Since 2013, he has won the first prize at both the Concorso Gian Battista Viotti in Vercelli in Italy and the Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow. He has performed, among others, with the Orchestre National de Lorraine, the Radio and Television Orchestra in Zagreb, the Jiangsu Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and with conductors such as Frank Braley, Jonathon Heyward, and Gergely Madaras. Since 2016, Jonathan Fournel has been an artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, under the guidance of Louis Lortie, and was selected as a ‘révélation classique’ by the Adami in 2017.

Keigo Mukawa
was born

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Jonathan Fournel

Jonathan plays under the baton of conductors including Stéphane Denève, Jonathon Heyward, Thomas Dausgaard, Sascha Goetzel, Pascal Rophé, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Michael Schonwandt, Peter Oundjian, Lio Kuokman, Howard Griffiths, Alexandre Bloch, Gabor Kali, Daniel Raiskin, Hugh Wolff, and Fan Tao, and with orchestras such as the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Brussels Philharmonic, European Union Youth Orchestra, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, NordWest Deutsche Philharmonie, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, NOSPR Katowice, Slovak Philharmonic, Macao Orchestra, Orchestre National d’Ile de France, Orchestre National de Bordeaux, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre National de Montpellier, and the Croatian Radio and Television Orchestra.

Fournel started studying the piano at seven in his hometown of Sarreguemines in the east of France before joining the Strasbourg Conservatoire. At 12, Jonathan was admitted to the Saarbrücken Musikhochschule in Germany in Prof. Robert Leonardy and Jean Micault’s s

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Jonathan Fournel

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« There is fire under Jonathan Fournel's fingers, but the fire of a craftsman who shapes glass, a master glassmaker of Mozartian arabesques.» (Musiq’3)

First Prize winner of the 2021 Queen Elisabeth Competition at the age of 27, Jonathan Fournel is a worthy heir of the great French piano tradition, including Brigitte Engerer, Claire Désert and Michel Dalberto. For his debut in Liège, he has devised an eclectic programme featuring Brahms, to whom he dedicated his first recording, as well as masters of counterpoint and form such as Bach, Chopin and Szymanowski, through whom he showcases his love of colour and his art of telling stories in minute detail.

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J.S. BACH, Concerto italiano BWV 971
BRAHMS, Intermezzi op. 117
SZYMANOWSKI, Variations on a Polish folk theme op. 10
CHOPIN, Piano Sonata No 3

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