Thomas Enhco flaneries musicales de reims

Born in Paris in September 1988, Thomas Enhco is a pianist and composer of jazz and classical music.

After studying violin and classical piano, he went on to study jazz at the Centre des Musiques Didier Lockwood and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. Since then, his career has taken on an international dimension, with recordings for the Verve, Deutsche Grammophon and Sony Music labels, and 100 concerts a year all over the world, on jazz stages (festivals in Montreal, Tokyo, Jazz à Vienne, Juan-les-Pins, Montreux, Istanbul, Gent, North Sea Jazz, New York Winter Jazz Festival, Olympia) and classical (Philharmonie de Paris, Salzburg Mozarteum, Festival de La Roque d'Anthéron, Folle Journée de Nantes, Tokyo, Warsaw, Opéra de Bordeaux, Flagey in Brussels, La Seine Musicale, Shanghai Grand Theater, Beijing Concert Hall, Kyoto Concert Hall, Sapporo Kitara Hall, Théâtre du Châtelet).

His recent albums include A Modern Songbook (Sony Masterworks, 2023, live recording), Thirty - solo piano and with symphony orchestra in his own Piano Concerto and compositions (Sony Classical, 2019), Bach Mirror and Funambules - in duo with virtuoso marimbist Vassilena Serafimova (Sony Classical, 2021 and Deutsche Grammophon, 2016), Feathers - solo piano (Verve, 2015) and Fireflies - in jazz trio (Label Bleu, 2012).

Jazz pianist Thomas Enhco performs mainly as a soloist, in a trio (with double bass and drums) and in various duos. In his solo concerts, his unique blend of improvisations on jazz standards, pop songs and themes from the great classical repertoire, as well as his own compositions, are acclaimed by audiences and critics worldwide. His latest album, A Modern Songbook, brings together 125 years of songs, from Carole King to Sting, Gabriel Fauré to James Blake, Serge Gainsbourg to London Grammar, Nick Drake to Silvio Rodríguez. In 2023, the four sold-out concerts at the Philharmonie de Paris, where he re-interpreted Keith Jarrett's legendary Köln Concert, remained etched in the memories of the 4,000 spectators who attended.

A classical pianist, he regularly performs concertos by Mozart (K.491 and K.467), Ravel(Concerto in G), Gershwin(Concerto in F and Rhapsody in Blue), as well as his own concertos(Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Double Concerto for Marimba, Piano and Orchestra, and Le Murmure des Oiseaux: Rhapsodie for Violin, Piano and Chamber Orchestra). He has appeared as soloist with the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Kanazawa Orchestra Ensemble, Tonhalle Zurich, Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Bordeaux, Orchestre National de France, Avignon Symphony Orchestra, Cannes Symphony Orchestra, Picardie Symphony Orchestra, OPPB, Ensemble Appassionato, Insula Orchestra ; under the direction of conductors Junichi Hirokami, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Fayçal Karoui, Alondra de la Parra, Julien Masmondet, James Gaffigan, Pierre Dumoussaud, Laurence Equilbey, Mathieu Herzog, Samuel Jean, Benjamin Lévy, Johanna Malangré...

As a composer, he is regularly commissioned by orchestras, chamber music ensembles, choirs and soloists. He has composed three symphonic works and various pieces for piano, choir, string quartet, wind quintet and brass (some of which have been released by Sony, Naïve, Mirare and Klarthe).
His last two film scores were for the feature films Elle & Lui et le reste du monde by French director Emmanuelle Belohradsky (2024) and Un Mondo in Piú by Italian director Luigi Pane (2021).

Thomas Enhco won the Grand Prix SACEM du Jazz 2020, the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition 2017 (Silver Grand Prize), the Victoires du Jazz 2013 (Revelation), the FIPA d'Or 2012 (Best Film Music), the Concours International de Piano Jazz Martial Solal 2010 (3rd prize), and the Django d'Or 2010 (New Talent).

His atypical, multi-genre career has led him to collaborate with jazz, classical, song, theater, dance, literature and drawing artists such as Jack DeJohnette and John Patitucci, Didier Lockwood, David Enhco, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Chris Potter, Yamandu Costa, Paquito d'Rivera, José James, Peter Erskine, Kevin Hays, Ibrahim Maalouf, Gilad Hekselman, Mike Stern, Dan Tepfer, Cyrille Aimée, Scott Colley... Maria João Pires, Henri Demarquette, Khatia Buniatishvili, Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro, Sarah Nemtanu, Alexis Cardenas, Renaud Capuçon, Lise de la Salle, Caroline Casadesus, Natalie Dessay, Michel Dalberto, Laurent Naouri, Anne-Sofie Von Otter, Beatrice Rana, Thibaut Garcia, Félicien Brut, Maki Namekawa... The Ébène, Arod, Hanson and Modigliani quartets, the Chœur de Radio France, the Spirito Choir... David Lescot, Nicolas Mathieu, Aurélia Aurita, Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Tim Dup, Jane Birkin, MC Solaar, Clara Ysé...

He has been supported in his projects by the BNP Paribas Foundation from 2013 to 2021.

Further information
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Thursday, July 10 at 9 p.m.

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