Focus on the laureates of Piano 2021: Jonathan Fournel
23/10/2024
A few months after his First Prize at the rather unusual Piano Competition of 2021, which took place under extremely strict precautions and without an audience because of the pandemic, his first solo recording was released. For this album he recorded the Third sonata by Brahms, whom he admired, and his Variations and Fugue on a theme by Haendel, one of the works with which he also made an impression in the semi-finals.
In the meantime, Jonathan has also recorded works by Mendelssohn with Augustin Dumay and participated in the complete recording of Franck's chamber music works with Lorenzo Gatto and Augustin Dumay among others. The Orpheum Foundation's Next Generation Mozart Soloists series allowed him to record Mozart's 18th and 21st concertos, together with the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg conducted by Howard Griffiths. He recently joined Kerson Leong in the studio to record Fauré's sonatas for violin and piano.
In recent years, Jonathan Fournel has been invited by many prestigious concert halls: the Gewandhaus Leipzig, Konzerthaus Vienna, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie de Paris, Radio France Auditorium, Arsenal in Metz, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Luxembourg Philharmonie, the Royal Glasgow Concert Hall, the Sala Verdi in Milan and the Kumho Art Hall in Seoul. He also performed at France's biggest festivals, such as La Roque d'Anthéron, Les Flâneries Musicales de Reims, La Folle Journée de Nantes, Piano à Lyon, Lille Piano Festival, Piano aux Jacobins, Festival de Menton, and at the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Verbier Festival, the Sommets Musicaux in Gstaad and the Klavier Festival Ruhr. He toured Japan with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, and also went on tour to Brazil and the United States.
Locally, he remains committed to bringing classical music to regions of France that lack real cultural centres with performances in the Concerts de Poche series, including with Victor Julien-Laferrière, who won the first-ever Queen Elisabeth Cello Competition in 2017. He does not shy away from contemporary music in his recital programmes either, regularly playing works by Pierre-Alain Braye-Weppe (also presenter of the Concerts de Poche), Rory Boyle, Guillaume Connesson and Thomas Ades.
The coming months are filled with performances with the Orchestre National de Lille conducted by Jean-Claude Casadesus, the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse conducted by Michael Schønwandt, the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie
Check out an excerpt of his new album:
Jonathan Fournel has just released his second solo album, dedicated to Chopin and Szymanowski, with the label Alpha. In France it promptly received a Choc from Classica Magazine and in the international press the album was met with excellent reviews.
A few months after his First Prize at the rather unusual Piano Competition of 2021, which took place under extremely strict precautions and without an audience because of the pandemic, his first solo recording was released. For this album he recorded the Third sonata by Brahms, whom he admired, and his Variations and Fugue on a theme by Haendel, one of the works with which he also made an impression in the semi-finals.
In the meantime, Jonathan has also recorded works by Mendelssohn with Augustin Dumay and participated in the complete recording of Franck's chamber music works with Lorenzo Gatto and Augustin Dumay among others. The Orpheum Foundation's Next Generation Mozart Soloists series allowed him to record Mozart's 18th and 21st concertos, together with the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg conducted by Howard Griffiths. He recently joined Kerson Leong in the studio to record Fauré's sonatas for violin and piano.
In recent years, Jonathan Fournel has been invited by many prestigious concert halls: the Gewandhaus Leipzig, Konzerthaus Vienna, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Philharmonie de Paris, Radio France Auditorium, Arsenal in Metz, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Luxembourg Philharmonie, the Royal Glasgow Concert Hall, the Sala Verdi in Milan and the Kumho Art Hall in Seoul. He also performed at France's biggest festivals, such as La Roque d'Anthéron, Les Flâneries Musicales de Reims, La Folle Journée de Nantes, Piano à Lyon, Lille Piano Festival, Piano aux Jacobins, Festival de Menton, and at the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Verbier Festival, the Sommets Musicaux in Gstaad and the Klavier Festival Ruhr. He toured Japan with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, and also went on tour to Brazil and the United States.
Locally, he remains committed to bringing classical music to regions of France that lack real cultural centres with performances in the Concerts de Poche series, including with Victor Julien-Laferrière, who won the first-ever Queen Elisabeth Cello Competition in 2017. He does not shy away from contemporary music in his recital programmes either, regularly playing works by Pierre-Alain Braye-Weppe (also presenter of the Concerts de Poche), Rory Boyle, Guillaume Connesson and Thomas Ades.
The coming months are filled with performances with the Orchestre National de Lille conducted by Jean-Claude Casadesus, the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse conducted by Michael Schønwandt, the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie
Check out an excerpt of his new album:
