Jean-Frédéric Neuburger
Contemporary music, Chamber music, Récital, Symphony Music, Concertante music
Jean-Frédéric Neuburger has rapidly established himself as one of the most gifted musicians of his generation and is an admired interpreter of a broad repertory ranging from Bach to composers of the twenty-first century. His career has led him to perform with the world’s most prestigious orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, under such conductors as Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnányi, M
Jean-Frédéric Neuburger is invited as guest artist to such international festivals as Verbier, Lucerne, Menton, La Roque-d’Anthéron, Saratoga, and La Jolla Music Society, and has given recitals at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Radio France, the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, La Scala Paris, the Cité de la Musique, the Philharmonie de Paris and the Berlin Philharmonie. As a chamber musician, he performs with Renaud Capuçon, Bertrand Chamayou, Tatjana Vassiljeva, and the Thymos, Modigliani and Ébène quartets. He devotes a significant part of his musical activity to contemporary music, and has given the world premieres of works by Bruno Mantovani, Philipp Maintz, Philippe Hurel and Yves Chauris, and of Philippe Manoury’s concerto for piano and electronics Echo-Daimonon.
He is also an acclaimed composer, whose works include Aube, commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi (and subsequently revived by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestre de Paris), his Piano Concerto no.1 which he premiered with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Jonathan Stockhammer in 2018, and most recently Faits et gestes, commissioned by François-Xavier Roth and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, who premiered it in 2019. His extensive discography on the Mirare label reflects his eclectic and varied repertory – Ravel, Bach, Brahms, Liszt, Debussy, Neuburger, Hérold, Barraqué etc. – and has received great acclaim in the French and international press.
Jean-Frédéric Neuburger studied piano, organ and composition before entering the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris at the age of thirteen. He subsequently did postgraduate work in Geneva with Michael Jarrell. He was awarded the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Prize by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2010, and the Hervé Dugardin Prize of the Sacem in 2015.
