Gilles Vonsattel 2009 Laureate
Swiss pianist Gilles Vonsattel was named Laureate of Canada's prestigious Honens International Piano Competition in 2009, was recipient of an Avery Fisher career grant in 2008, and was winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation's International Piano Competition in 2002. He has performed in major venues across the United States, including Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Boston’s Symphony Hall and Washington D.C.’s National Gallery of Art. European performances include Festival La Roque d'Anthéron, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Zurich’s Tonhalle and the Warsaw Philharmonic. He has been soloist with Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, National Symphony of Ireland, Calgary Philharmonic, Nashville Symphony, New Century Chamber, and the Boston Pops orchestras. In 2010, Vonsattel made his Tanglewood debut with the Boston Symphony. He has collaborated with artists such as Kim Kashkashian, Ida Kavafian, David Shifrin, Gary Hoffman, Heinz Holliger and Yo-Yo Ma, as well as the Borromeo, St Petersburg, Ying, Orion and Ebène Quartets, and, in 2010, formed his own trio, the Huang-Altstaedt-Vonsattel Trio, with violinist Frank Huang and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt. Vonsattel studied with David Deveau in Boston and received his Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, where he worked with Jerome Lowenthal. He also holds a degree in political science and economics from Columbia University. Vonsattel is Assistant Professor of piano at UMass Amherst.
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