Piano
Pianist, composer, arranger, Jérôme Ducros is a multi-faced artist, performing in all types of ensembles, and with a wide repertoire ranging from contemporary music to his own work.
A sought-after chamber musician, he is a regular concert and recording partner of Gautier Capuçon, Philippe Jaroussky, Jérôme Pernoo… He performs on the greatest stages, such as Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Berlin Philharmonie, Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, Wigmore Hall and Barbican Center in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, Liceu in Barcelona, Marinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, KKL in Lucerne, Shanghai Concert Hall, Tokyo Opera... He has also collaborated with Augustin Dumay, Michel Portal, Michel Dalberto, Nicholas Angelich, Frank Braley, Antoine Tamestit, Paul Meyer, Gérard Caussé, Adrien La Marca, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Henri Demarquette, the Quatuor Ébène and with singers Dawn Upshaw, Diana Damrau, Angelika Kirchslager, Ian Bostridge, Erdmann, Fatma Saïd, Laurent Naouri, Nora Gubisch…
Confidential a few years ago, the music written by Jérôme Ducros gradually became known and recognized by an increasing number of musicians, praticularly since the publication of his Trio for two cellos and piano in 2006 (Billaudot, coll. Gautier Capuçon). Since then, his works have been regularly performed by numerous interpreters. He has also produced a certain number of more theoretical works on musical language and its evolution, notably during a lecture at the Collège de France, given in 2012 at the invitation of Karol Beffa, which sparked a lively debate in artistic circles.
Jérôme Ducros is also the author of a large number of arrangements, for piano, chamber music, or orchestra, which have been commissioned, performed, or recorded by Gautier Capuçon, Philippe Jaroussky, Lucienne Renaudin Vary, the Quatuor Ébène, the Orchestre National de Bretagne, the Orchestre Lamoureux, the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, the Orchestre National d’Île de France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Orchestre National de France... His first album of orchestral arrangements (Émotions, with Gautier Capuçon, on Erato Warner Classics) received a Disque d’Or in 2021.
Among Jérôme Ducros's abundant discography, which includes more than twenty albums, we can mention a Schubert recital (Ligia Digital, 2001); Fauré's works for piano and orchestra with the Orchestre de Bretagne, conducted by Moshe Atzmon (Timpani, 2008); "Capriccio," a recital with Renaud Capuçon (Virgin Classics, 2008); "Opium," French melodies, with Philippe Jaroussky, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, and Emmanuel Pahud (Virgin Classics, 2009); Beethoven's works for piano and cello with Jérôme Pernoo (Ligia-Digital, 2009); "Contes," with Renaud Capuçon and Laurence Ferrari (Virgin Classics, 2012); the chamber music of Guillaume Connesson (Coll. Pierre Bergé, 2012 – Reissued Sony, 2017); "En aparté," chamber music works by Jérôme Ducros (Decca, 2013); "Green," French melodies with Philippe Jaroussky and the Ébène quartet (Erato, 2015); "Intuition," pieces for cello and piano with Gautier Capuçon (Erato, 2018); Rachmaninov, Miaskovsky, works for cello and piano with Bruno Philippe (Harmonia Mundi, 2019); "Émotions," with Gautier Capuçon and the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, conducted by Adrien Perruchon (Erato, 2020); "Sensations," with Gautier Capuçon and the Orchestre National de Bretagne, conducted by Johanna Malangré (Erato, 2022). To be released in November 2023: "Destination Paris," with Gautier Capuçon and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, conducted by Lionel Bringuier (Erato, 2023).
Born in 1974, Jérôme Ducros studied piano with François Thinat, then Gérard Frémy and Cyril Huvé at the CNSM de Paris, and attended masterclasses with Léon Fleisher, Gyorgy Sebök, Davitt Moroney and Christian Zacharias. Winner of the Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition organized by Maurizio Pollini at La Scala in Milan, he has performed in numerous concert halls around the world and as soloist with orchestras such as the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orchestre National de Lille, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchestre Français des Jeunes and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, with conductors such as Alain Altinoglu, Paul Meyer, James Judd, Emmanuel Krivine, Marc Minkowski, Christopher Hogwood…
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