Photo : © Romain Charrier
Gaspard Dehaene was 16 when his musical encounter with Chopin caused him to give up tennis, his childhood passion, for his life’s passion, music.
Trained by Anne-Lise Gastaldi at CRR (Regional Conservatory) in Paris, he got his Master’s Degree at CNSMD (National Conservatory of Music) of Paris in 2012, in Bruno Rigutto’s and Denis Pascal’s classes. Afterwards, he was admitted to Salzburg’s Mozarteum in Jacques Rouvier’s class, and further mastered his art with Rena Shereshevskaya at École normale de musique de Paris and, in 2017, obtained his Master’s Degree in vocal accompaniment at CNSMD in Anne Le Bozec’s class.
The award recipient of the Pro Musicis prize, of the International Competition of San Sebastian, the Piano Campus, the Great Prize of the Alain Marinaro competition, he appears in a number of festivals in France — la Roque d’Anthéron, La Folle Journée de Nantes, Festival 1001 Notes, Printemps des Arts of Monte-Carlo, Radio France Montpellier-Occitanie, Flâneries musicales de Reims (including a Medici TV broadcast), Chopin à Bagatelle…— and abroad too, in Europe but also in Morocco, in New-Caledonia and at the Young Artists Festival in Beijing.
Due to several experiences in concerto, he has had the opportunity to perform under such conductors as Dmitri Liss, Elena Schwarz, Mihhail Gerts or Flavien Boy, with various orchestras like the ‘Sinfonia Varsovia’, the ‘Ural Philharmonic orchestra’ or the ‘Orchestre Pasdeloup’. His enthusiasm for chamber music has brought him to perform with Anne Queffélec, Raphaël Sévère, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Gérard Caussé, Paul Meyer, the ‘Voce’ and the ‘Girard’ quartets… He is also a partner of choice for Adrien Boisseau with whom he has recorded two albums warmly welcomed by the music press.
As a laureate of Orsay-Royaumont foundation, Gaspard Dehaene’s great sensitivity to the Lied and the melody repertoire has led him to set up a collaboration with the mezzo-soprano Victoire Bunel, by whom he recorded the ‘Carte postale’ album, released in January 2021 with B Records. Contemporary music is something he cares about a lot: creating in 2007 Une page d’éphéméride by Pierre Boulez he was privileged enough to work on with the composer himself, he has ever since been requested by such composers as R. Bruneau-Boulmier, F. Choveaux, C. Bray or A. Benéteau whose Sonate Douarnenez he has recorded.
Other recordings by Gaspard Dehaene include three solo discs under the 1001 Notes label : ‘Fantaisie’ in 2016, ‘Vers l’ailleurs’ in February 2019 with works by Schubert, Liszt and Bruneau-Boulmier —a record unanimously hailed by the Press—, and recently ‘À la Mazur’, an album dedicated to Chopin, released in 2022.
Among his recent commitments, he made his debut at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in March 2025 and performed the whole collection of Liszt’s Études d’exécution transcendante at Lisztomanias in Châteauroux.
Recently named both an artist of the ‘Spedidam Generation’ for 2017-2021, and an ‘Artiste Steinway’ since 2019, Gaspard Dehaene has been teaching as Rena Shereshevskaya’s assistant at École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot since September 2021.
