David Kadouch

Born in Nice on December 7, 1985, David Kadouch took his first piano lessons at the age of five, moving from the local conservatory to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, where he won a first prize after studying with Jacques Rouvier, then at the Queen Sophia School of Music in Madrid, with Dmitri Bashkirov. He also studied with great masters such as Murray Perahia, Daniel Barenboim and Maurizio Pollini. Noticed by Itzhak Perlman at the age of thirteen at a concert in New York, he accompanied him to Carnegie Hall and also played at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, before going on to shine in international competitions, winning the Verbier Festival prize, a place as finalist at the Beethoven Competition in Bonn and at the Leeds Competition in 2009. From the outset, her solo career has evolved at major festivals and in concerts with prestigious conductors. His discography, inaugurated on Naxos in 2007, continues on Transart with Shostakovich's Preludes and his Piano Quintet with the Ardeo Quartet, with whom he also recorded Schumann's Quintet in 2011. Awarded a Victoire de la musique classique in the revelation category in 2010, David Kadouch gave his vision of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in 2012 and presented the ode to nature En Plein Air: Bach - Schumann - Janácek - Bartók in 2016. Two more recitals follow, Révolution (2019) and Les Musiques de Madame Bovary (2022), between collaborations with Edgard Moreau or Sandrine Piau and her participation in the project devoted to the piano music of composer Charlotte Sohy. 2025 saw the release of Amours Interdites, a recital featuring compositions by Tchaikovsky, Poulenc, Szymanowski, Reynaldo Hahn, Ethel Smyth and Charles Trenet.

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