Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Swiss-born pianist Gilles Vonsattel performs repertoire ranging from Bach’s The Art of Fugue to the complete works for solo piano of Xenakis. Winner of the Naumberg International PianoCompetition in 2002, he made his Alice Tully Hall debut in that same year and has since performed with the Utah, Santa Fe, Nashville, and Grand Rapids symphonies; the New Century and Fort Worth chamber orchestras; and the Boston Pops. He has performed at France’s La Roque d’Antheron, Warsaw’s Chopin Festival, Zurich’s Tonhalle, Geneva’s Victoria Hall, the Musee d’Orsay and Musee du Louvre in Paris, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Cleveland’s Severance Hall, and Tokyo’s Opera City Hall. Last season he appeared at the Davos, Bastad, Sion, Ernen, and Caramoor festivals; played at Washington’s National Gallery; and performed Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Warsaw Philharmonic. As winner of the 2006 Concours de Geneve, he recorded Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto with the Orchestre de Chambre de Geneve; it was released in 2007 on the PanClassics label. A laureate of the Cleveland and Dublin International Piano Competitions and recipient of a 2008 Avery Fisher Career Grant, he received his bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Columbia University and his master’s degree in music from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal.
