Nicolas Horvath is an unusual artist with an unconventional résumé. He began his music studies at the Académie de Musique Prince Rainier III de Monaco, and at the age of 16, caught the attention of the American conductor Lawrence Foster who helped him to secure a three-year scholarship from the Princess Grace Foundation in order to further his studies. His mentors include a number of distinguished international pianists, including Bruno Leonardo Gelber, Gérard Frémy, Eric Heidsieck, Gabriel Tacchino, Nelson Delle- Vigne, Philippe Entremont, Oxana Yablonskaya and Liszt specialist Leslie Howard who helped to lay the foundations for Horvath’s current recognition as a leading interpreter of Liszt’s music. He is the holder of a number of awards, including First Prize of the Scriabin and the Luigi Nono International Competitions.

Known for his boundary-less musical explorations, Horvath is an enthusiastic promoter of contemporary music. He has commissioned numerous works and collaborated with leading contemporary composers from around the world, including Régis Campo, Mamoru Fujieda, Jaan Rääts, Alvin Curran and Valentin Silvestrov – and has rediscovered forgotten or neglected composers such as Moondog, Germaine Tailleferre, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Hélène de Montgeroult and Fernand de La Tombelle to name but a few.

Horvath has become noted for the organisation of concerts of unusual length, sometimes lasting over twelve hours, such as the performance of the complete piano music of Philip Glass at the Paris Philharmonie before a cumulative audience of 14,000 people; Stockhausen’s (14) Klavierstücke and the complete piano music of Erik Satie. His discography on Grand Piano includes two highly acclaimed series of Philip Glass, and Erik Satie’s complete piano works (six and four albums to date, respectively), piano sonatas by the Estonian composer Jaan Rääts, and études by Carl Czerny.

For more information, visit www.nicolashorvath.com.

Dans l’univers de Glass