Pianist and virtuoso François Dumont presents his new album entitled “Chopin, Ballades et Impromptus”. A vibrant tribute to the Franco-Polish composer who invented the ballad, this vast melodic poem.
His parents weren’t musicians, but they were great music lovers. So it’s no surprise that the little Francois Dumont started playing the piano at the age of 4 and a half and that he wanted to make it his job – from the age of 8, he says. When others dream of becoming an astronaut, firefighter or President of the Republic.
More surprising: he did not change his mind, he stuck to it, and put all the chances on his side, first at the Conservatoire de Lyon, then at the Conservatoire Supérieur National de Paris, then aligning the prizes in the biggest international competitions, the Queen-Elisabeth Competition, the Clara Haskil Competition, the Piano Masters of Monte-Carlo, without forgetting the Chopin Competition.
Chopin precisely, he returns to it, 4 years after having recorded the complete Nocturnes. The new album by Francois Dumont “Chopin, Ballades et Impromptus” is available on the La Musica label.
Report : Fanny Bleichner became interested in a novel that has just come out, 61 years after the death of the writer. It is a novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, the famous author of, among other things, “Death on Credit” and “Journey to the End of the Night”. A romantic and even incredible literary discovery of these unpublished writings. The exhibition on the found manuscripts of Céline is to be visited at the Galerie Gallimard in Paris until July 16.