President of the Committee
Nation : France |
Hailed by the Washington Post as a « young artist displaying maturity and elegance », French pianist Olivier Moulin studied under Eric Heidsieck and Gery Moutier at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Lyon, where he was unanimously awarded first prize with the highest honors. After advanced studies in the same institution, he continued his training in Austria at the University Mozarteum Salzburg in the classes of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling for the piano and Clemens Hagen for the chamber music, where he obtained a Master of Arts with the highest honors. Throughout his studies, he has also benefited from the advices of masters such as Aldo Ciccolini, Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Dominique Merlet, Jacques Rouvier, Sergio Perticaroli …
Prizewinner of the Epinal International Piano Competition, he is a regular guest at prestigious concert halls and festivals around the world : Salle Gaveau, Salle Cortot, the Louvre Auditorium and Radio-France in Paris, La Roque d’Anthéron International Festival, the Radio-France Festival, Virtuosi Festival in Brazil, Festival International de Piano « En Blanco y Negro » in Mexico City, Gümüsluk International Music Festival in Turkey, Mozarteum Salzburg, Franz Liszt Museum in Budapest, Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City, Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Japan, Shanghai Concert Hall, Washington DC, Istanbul, New Delhi, Geneva, Lisbon, Oslo, Minsk … Olivier Moulin performs as a soloist with the Orchestre National de Metz, the Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra in China, the Camerata de Coahuila in Mexico, under the baton of conductors Peter Csaba, Jacques Mercier, James Liu, Kanako Abe… His passion for chamber music also leads him to share the stage with numerous musicians : the Fine Arts Quartet, soloists of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the principal trumpet of the Berlin Philharmonic David Guerrier, Bertrand Chamayou, Edwin Crossley-Mercer… He also collaborates with many other artists, including Ève Ruggieri (concert-lectures on Frédéric Chopin and George Sand), or French actor Francis Perrin (Stravinsky’s « The Soldier’s Tale », Poulenc’s « Histoire de Babar »). His first solo album, dedicated to Franz Liszt, was released under the AmeSon/Outhere label. This recording was praised by critics and featured in several broadcasts, notably on France Musique, Radio Classique… Olivier Moulin is currently a piano Professor at the Nancy Conservatory in France, and the President of the Épinal International Piano Competition. He is regularly invited to give masterclasses in Europe, the United States, Japan, China… and serves on the jury of numerous international piano competitions : Istanbul, Porto Santa Cecilia, the Scriabin Competition in Grosseto, the Sviatoslav Richter International Piano Competition… |