Piano
Biography
In March 2018 Michel Bourdoncle appeared in Sofia with the Camerata Orfica of the New Bulgarian University, sharing the concert of the 26th with Piero Barbareschi. Born in Marseille in 1960, he studied at the Darius Milhaud Conservatory in Aix-en-Provence with Jacqueline Courtin and Bernard Flavigny before entering the Paris Conservatoire in the classes of Geneviève Joy, Jean Hubeau, Christian Ivaldi and Dominique Merlet. He took the Grand Prize of the Acanthes international piano competition in 1984, under a jury presided over by Iannis Xenakis, and in 1986 a scholarship carried him to the Moscow Conservatory and he was a laureate of the first Franz Liszt competition in Utrecht. Accompanist at the Paris Conservatoire from 1981 to 1991, he taught piano at the Lyon conservatoire and chamber music at Marseille, and has taught at the Darius Milhaud Conservatory. He records for Doron Music, Ems Master Sound, Marco Polo and 3D Classics, and founded the Nuits pianistiques festival, academy and competition.