Théo Fouchenneret

French pianist Théo Fouchenneret won First Prize at the Concours de Genève in November 2018 and was then nominated as Instrumental Soloist Revelation at the Victoires de la Musique Classique. The same year he won First Prize and five special prizes at the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition with the Trio Messiaen.

Born in Nice, he studied at the Conservatoire de Nice with Christine Gastaud, then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Alain Planès, Hortense Cartier-Bresson and Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, graduating with the highest honours. In 2013 he won First Prize at the Gabriel Fauré International Piano Competition.

In France he has performed at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Salle Cortot, Salle Gaveau, the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord and the Opéras of Nice and Dijon. Abroad he has appeared at the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Gasteig in Munich, Bozar in Brussels, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Sala Verdi in Milan, the Sala Cecília Meireles in Rio de Janeiro, the Xi’an Philharmonic, Toppan Hall in Tokyo, Izumi Hall in Osaka, Munetsugu Hall in Nagoya and the National Concert Hall in Taipei. He is a guest of festivals including La Roque d’Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins, La Folle Journée de Nantes, the Festival de Pâques de Deauville, La Chaise-Dieu, the Flâneries musicales de Reims, Cully Classique and the Klavier-Festival Ruhr.

He performs chamber music with Renaud Capuçon, Victor Julien-Laferrière, François Salque, Lise Berthaud and Svetlin Roussev, and is artist in residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac.

His first solo album, devoted to Beethoven’s Waldstein and Hammerklavier sonatas, was released by La Dolce Volta in March 2020. His recording of Fauré’s Nocturnes, released by the same label in September 2024, received a Choc Classica and five stars in Diapason. His chamber music discography includes recordings with Eric Le Sage, Tatsuki Narita, the Trio Messiaen with Raphaël Sévère, the Trio Xenakis and Philippe Hattat. In 2023 he initiated a complete recording of Robert Schumann’s chamber music with his brother, violinist Pierre Fouchenneret.