March 2021

Laurent Cabasso studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (with Yvonne Loriod, Jean Hubeau and Christian Ivaldi) where he obtained First Prizes in Piano and Chamber Music, the year he turned eighteen. He then went on to advanced studies with Nikita Magaloff, György Sebok, György Sandor and Norbert Braïnin. He also studied with Désiré N’Kaoua, and later in London with the famous piano teacher Maria Curcio-Diamand, who was an Arthur Schnabel’s disciple. After winning prizes at several international competitions (Geza Anda Prize in Zurich in 1982, Tokyo in 1983, finalist at the Clara Haskil Competition in Vevey in 1987), he embarked on a major international career. He gives regular recitals and concerts in such centres as Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Salle Pleyel, Philharmonie), Zurich (Tonhalle), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Geneva (Victoria Hall) and Salzburg (Festspielhaus), and appears at festivals like La Roque d’Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins, la Folle journée de Nantes, Besançon, and Montpellier, as well as in America and Asia. He also takes part in concerts as soloist with orchestras including the Suisse Romande, Monte-Carlo, Zurich, Capitole de Toulouse, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre National de Lille with conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Ferdinand Leitner, Serge Baudo, Armin Jordan, Tibor Varga, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Emmanuel Krivine, Michel Plasson…