DeutschYannick Rafalimanana
piano
French pianist Yannick Rafalimanana has developed an international concert career as a recitalist and chamber musician. Recent performances have taken him to halls all over the world, including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Wigmore Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, Köln Philharmonie, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Chamber Hall, and the Kennedy Center in Washington. He has made chamber music with countless artists, including Kim Kashkashian, Steven Isserlis, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Arnold Steinhardt, and Itzhak Perlman. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, the Orchestre CNR de Lille, Orchestre Impromptu, and the Ensemble Parisien, under the batons of Péter Eötvös, Maxime Pascal, Jean Deroyer, Lucie Leguay and Zolt Nagy. Yannick regularly appears at summer festivals including the Perlman Music Program, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, and Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival. He is the winner of numerous awards, including the Borromeo Quartet Guest Artist Award and the Brest Piano Competition. As first prize winner of the 2012 Tufts/New England Conservatory Soloist Competition, he made his U.S. concerto debut in Symphony Hall Boston with the Boston Pops Orchestra. Born in Lille, he studied at the Conservatory of Lille and later at the Paris Conservatoire, earning first prizes in piano, chamber music, and collaborative piano under teachers including Bruno Rigutto, Michael Levinas, and Jean-Claude Pennetier. He then moved to Boston, earning a graduate diploma and a master of music in chamber music at the New England Conservatory under Vivian Weilerstein. He taught chamber music at the Folkwang University of Arts in Essen from 2015 to 2018. In 2022 he launched "Yannick's Salon," a concert series in his Berlin neighbourhood bringing chamber music masterpieces to the local audience of Weissensee.
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