Biography

Biography

Guilhem Fabre started playing the piano in Nîmes at the age of five. After graduating from high school, he decided to embark on a musical adventure. He was unanimously admitted to the National Conservatory of Paris (CNSM) in 2010 to the class of Hortense Cartier-Bresson. After obtaining his Bachelor’s Degree in 2013, the jury unanimously awarded him a first class honors Master’s Degree in June 2015, after he attended the courses of Roger Muraro.

2015-2017 : he is presently completing his training with Tatiana Zelikman at the Gnessin School of Music in Moscow.

Winner 2016 of the Fondation Banque Populaire, in 2017 he won the Prix de Soliste Pro Musicis.

The young artist received advice from pianists such as Jean-Claude Pennetier, François- René Duchâble, Bertrand Chamayou, Alain Planès and Jacqueline Bourgès-Maunoury. Moreover, François Salque, Marc Coppey and Claire Désert advised him on chamber music.

He gives recitals in festivals such as La Folle Journée de Nantes, L’auditorium du Musée d’Orsay, le Cap Ferret, le château de Lourmarin, Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat, Du piano aux étoiles à Lectoure, or at the Théâtre d’Auxerre, the Carré d’Art in Nîmes… He is also invited to Morocco – in Marrakech and Essaouïra – and in Russia – Scriabin Museum of Moscow, in Simferopol, in Kazan and Dubna in Russia…

After working as an accompanist to the class of the baritone Alain Fondary and as a choir master of two opera productions, Guilhem Fabre became passionate about working with singers. He appears regularly with them in recitals, for example, alongside the soprano Johanne Cassar and the baritone Philippe Estèphe.

Parallel to his career as a classical pianist, he composed and played the music of several theater plays by the French writer Léon for the Festival d’Avignon, the Théâtre 95, the Lavoir Moderne Parisien and the Théâtre du Marais. In March 2016, he performed in King Lear directed by Olivier Py at the Tapei National Theater in Taiwan and will take part in the stage director’s new piece: Les Parisiens, in Avignon Festival 2017.

Guilhem Fabre is also the initiator of the uNopia Project, « touring concerts on a truck-stage », whose aim is to have audiences experience and love music.