Audrey Vigoureux

Audrey Vigoureux, a native of Aix-en-Provence in southern France, started studying the piano at the city?s conservatory at the age of eight. She graduated at fifteen with a gold medal and went on to the national conservatory at Nice. After studying under Odile Poisson, she applied to the Conservatoire Superieur of Geneva and the CNSM de Paris, and was unanimously accepted for both. There followed a period of concurrent studies in Geneva and Paris, under Sebastien Risler and Jacques Rouvier respectively. She combined this with chamber music studies at the Paris Conservatory with Christian Ivaldi, Jean Mouillere and Itamar Golan. She graduated from Paris CNSM with first-class honours in piano and a first prize for chamber music, in addition to the post-graduate degree. In Geneva she obtained the soloist diploma with honours, and won the Adolph Neumann prize awarded by the city of Geneva, in addition to the Dumont Prize and the Filipinetti Prize. Among other prizes, she has been awarded the De Agostini Foundation prize, a first prize from the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe, the Kiefer-Hablitzel award, and a prize from the Ernst Gohner Stiftung. Other influences include master classes with Andras Schiff, Charles Rosen, Bella Davidovitch, Joseph Kalinschtein, Dominique Merlet, and Jean-Claude Pennetier. From an early age Audrey has been invited to give recitals and perform as a soloist with orchestras in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Highlights have included the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, the international festival ?Les nuits pianistiques?, the Archipel festival, the ?Rainbow across Europe? festival in England, the Verbier Festival and Academy, the Cite de la musique in Paris, the BFM and Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Abbey of Royaumont, the Stravinsky Auditorium in Montreux, the National Grand Theatre in Beijing, the Oriental Art Center in Shanghai, the M Theatre in Bangkok, and the Merida International Festival in Venezuela. In 2013 Audrey Vigoureux performed all of Bach?s concertos for two, three and four pianos with David Fray, Jacques Rouvier, Emmauel Christien, and the Montpellier Opera Orchestra. She has played with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Pinchas Steinberg, the Orchestre Regional de Cannes, the Avignon Provence Orchestra, the El Sistema youth orchestra in Venezuela, and many other artists, including David Fray, Edgar Moreau, Miguel Da Silva, Sarah Nemtanu, Timothy Park, Domingo Hindoyan, Alissa Margulis, David Kadouch, Diotima Quartet,Terpsycordes Quartet... She is also active in collaborations that straddle the boundaries between musical conventions (jazz, contemporary, electronic), working with Marc Perrenoud, Yannick Delez, Valentin Peiry, the group Piano Seven... Her interest in the possibilities offered by such cross-pollination led her in 2010 to create " Les Atheneennes Festival " in Geneva. She just recorded a Bach and Beethoven solo piano disc under the direction of Nicolas Bartholomee. Cd?s release will be in 2015. Audrey Vigoureux is also professor at the Haute Ecode de Musique de Geneve.