Romain Descharmes, Malmö Opera Orchestra & Michael Halász
Biography Romain Descharmes, Malmö Opera Orchestra & Michael Halász
Romain Descharmes
Since his noteworthy debut with the Orchestre de Paris in May 2012, Romain Descharmes has established himself as one of the foremost French pianists of his generation. Highly regarded by his fellow musicians, he is in demand for concerts with orchestras and also for recitals and chamber music.
Winner of the Dublin International Piano Competition, he has appeared in concerts in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, China and elsewhere, collaborating with the Orchestre de Paris (Paavo Järvi and Ingo Metzmacher), Orchestre symphonique de Québec (Enrique Mazzola), Malmö Symphony Orchestra and Aarhus Symphony Orchestra (Marc Soustrot), Orchestre National de Lyon (Leonard Slatkin), Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse (Tugan Sokhiev) and Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
He has been the guest of several renowned festivals and venues, including La Roque d’Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall and the Philharmonie Berlin.
Descharmes has made around 20 recordings of solo piano, spanning orchestral and chamber music. He also teaches, and is a professor at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional in Paris.
