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For the Pianiste magazine, Rodolphe Menguy “is certainly proving to be a formidable instrumentalist, but above all a true temperament”; according to Diapason “he wonderfully captures unique atmospheres” and for the Classica magazine he has “an entire orchestra at his fingertips”.
Rodolphe Menguy was born on 13 November 1997 in Paris, beginning his musical studies very early at the Boulogne-Billancourt CRR, in the class of Gilles Berard, then with Marie-Paule Siruguet, where he gained his Piano DEM at the age of 14. In 2015, he was unanimously accepted at the CNSMD in Paris, in the class of Denis Pascal and Varduhi Yeritsyan, gaining a Classical Interpreter Artist Diploma in 2022, after receiving his Licence and Master diplomas. He was then admitted to the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, further developing with Benedetto Lupo.
In 2023, Rodolphe won second prize at the International Piano Star Competition, as well as 3 special prizes. He also won the Young Soloist Prize from Médias Francophones Publics 2021, as the candidate for France Musique. He was also the Lauréat 2021 for the Fondation Banque Populaire, Lauréat for the Fondation de l’Or du Rhin, Lauréat for the French American Piano Society and was named Révélation Classique by Adami in 2018. The same year, he was chosen to be part of the Vivaldi promotion by the Académie Philippe Jaroussky.
Rodolphe regularly appears as soloist and chamber musician in prestigious Festivals and Halls: Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron, La Folle Journée de Nantes, Festival Radio France Occitanie, Festival Chopin in Paris, Musicales de Normandie, Opéra de Saint-Étienne, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Musée Guimet, French Embassy in Washington, French Consulate in New York…
His first disk, “Rhapsodies Hongroises”, came out in May 2023 on the Mirare label, and was applauded by the specialist press: “Choix de France Musique”, 5 stars from Classica magazine, 5 Diapasons in Diapason magazine, 4.5 stars in the prestigious German magazine FonoForum, and more.
Rodolphe is an enquiring musician, with a wide repertoire, from the music of Bach to contemporary works, via Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, Bartók, Stravinsky, Hindemith, Messiaen, Boulez and on.
Passionate about chamber music, and a sought-after partner, he works in various groups, and has shared the stage with, in particular, Nathan Mierdl, Sarah Jégou-Sageman, Raphaëlle Moreau, Nicolas Garrigues, Marie Ducroux, Violaine Despeyroux, Paul Zientara, Stéphanie Huang, Caroline Sypniewski, Philippe Bianconi, Théo Fouchenneret, Nathalia Milstein.
Excited by the meeting of different arts, this cinema lover has also worked on projects combining music and dance, and has created a new version of Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale”, as a piano solo, with the actor Bertrand de Roffignac.
Rodolphe has appeared on many media outlets, including France Musique, Musiq3 – RTBF, Medici.tv. Through various master classes and academies he has received tutoring from important musical figures such as Michel Béroff, Philippe Cassard, Hortense Cartier-Bresson, Bertrand Chamayou, Claire Désert, Nelson Goerner, Jean-François Heisser, David Kadouch, Stephen Kovacevich, Bruno Rigutto, Sir András Schiff, Emmanuel Strosser and more.
In 2022, Rodolphe had his début at the Radio France Auditorium, in a Boulez – Chopin programme, as well as at the Philharmonie de Paris – Cité de la Musique, in Bartok’s awesome 2nd Concerto, with the Orchestre des Lauréats from the Paris Conservatoire, under the direction of Quentin Hindley.
Since July 2024, he has been artist-in-residence at the prestigious Fondation Signer-Polignac.
