
Jean-Paul Gasparian
Piano
- Friday, June 26, 2026, 8:30pm
- Musée Historique Saint-Remi - Cloister, Reims
In September 2024, Jean-Paul released his sixth album, the second for the naïve label. Entirely devoted to Armenian music, Origins was awarded a Diapason d'or and praised by the international press ("A Musician of Enormous Imagination" - Gramophone). In 2023, his Debussy disc was selected as one of the twelve best classical recordings of the year by Crescendo magazine. His previous albums, devoted to Rachmaninoff and Chopin, had already been enthusiastically received ("Un Nouveau Coup de Maître" - Le Figaro, "A Highly Accomplished Chopinist" - BBC Music Magazine).
In February 2020, Jean-Paul won the Prix Thierry-Scherz at the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, which enabled him to record a CD with the Bern Symphony Orchestra for the Claves label, including Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.2 and Arno Babadjanian's Ballade Héroïque.
Jean-Paul is nominated for the 2021 Victoires de la musique classique in the Instrumental Soloist Revelation category.
In May 2022, Jean-Paul made his debut as soloist with the Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France at the Philharmonie de Paris. In May 2023, he gave the French premiere of Howard Shore's piano concerto, Ruin and Memory, at the Maison de la Radio, with the Radio France Philharmonic.
Jean-Paul is the winner of the prestigious Concours Européen de Brême (Germany) in 2014, but also laureate of the José Iturbi (Spain) International Competition in 2015, GPIPL de Lyon (France) and Hastings (England) in 2013. He won the Prix de la Fondation Cziffra in 2014 and became Laureate of the Fondation l'Or du Rhin in October 2016.
In 2013, he was awarded 1st Prize for Philosophy in the Concours Général des Lycéens de France.
Orchestras that have accompanied him as soloist include: Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France, Nürnberger Symphoniker, Bremer Philharmoniker, Berner Symphonieorchester, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Deutsche Philharmonie Merck, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia, Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra, RTS Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen, Orchestre Colonne, Orchestre de Chambre de Toulouse, Orchestre National d'Avignon...
In January 2018 he stepped in at short notice to replace the celebrated pianist Christian Zacharias in Mozart's 24th Concerto under the direction of the great Austrian conductor Leopold Hager at the Chemnitz Stadthalle.
Jean-Paul has performed in recital or with orchestra at the Philharmonie de Paris, Salle Gaveau, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Auditorium de la Maison de la Radio, Tonhalle Zürich, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Meistersingerhalle Nüremberg, Die Glocke Bremen, Mozarteum Salzburg, Salle Flagey Brussels, Kolarac Belgrade, Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall Yerevan, and at festivals such as La Roque d'Anthéron, Festival Radio-France de Montpellier, La Folle Journée de Nantes, Festival de Menton, Un Violon sur le Sable, Piano aux Jacobins, Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Lisztomanias, Les Flâneries de Reims, Nohant Chopin Festival, Festival de Saint-Denis, Festival International de Colmar, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Piano à Saint-Ursanne, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Kissinger Sommer Festival, Klavier-Festival Ruhr.
In addition, the Festival Chopin de Nohant has published an archive album dedicated to Aldo Ciccolini, including Schumann's Sonata in G minor recorded live by Jean-Paul Gasparian (2015 edition). Classica Magazine awarded the album its Choc du Mois and placed Jean-Paul among the 10 most promising pianists of the younger generation.
Born in Paris in 1995 to musician parents, Jean-Paul Gasparian was unanimously admitted to the CNSM de Paris at the age of 14, where he brilliantly obtained his Master's degree in 2015. His teachers include Olivier Gardon, Jacques Rouvier, Michel Béroff and Laurent Cabasso. After a 3rd cycle at the CNSMDP with Michel Dalberto and Claire Désert, and at the Royal College of Music in London with Vanessa Latarche (Artist Diploma), he perfected his skills with Elisso Virsaladze in Italy. For several years, he has also received regular advice from Tatiana Zelikman during masterclasses abroad.
Jean-Paul is artist-in-residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac, laureate of the Fondation Banque Populaire and of the Académie musicale de Villecroze. Since summer 2017, he has also been a Steinway Artist.