Adam Laloum
Piano
Making his US debut as an ambassador of the FUSION partnership between the French Embassy in Washington, DC, SAFRAN, and Radio France-France Musique, the Phillips presents French pianist Adam Laloum.
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Program
Making his US debut as an ambassador of the FUSION partnership between the French Embassy in Washington, DC, SAFRAN, and Radio France-France Musique, the Phillips presents French pianist Adam Laloum. Laloum shot to fame when he won the 2009 Clara Haskill Competition, and has since earned many plaudits for his lithe and sensitive pianism.
Program
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13
Intermission
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Sonata for piano in B-flat Major, D. 960
FUSION serves to present young, emerging musical talent; establishing a commitment to perpetuate a musical dialogue between France and the United States, their musicians and composers.
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About the Artist
Adam Laloum was born in Toulouse in 1987. He began studying the piano at the age of 10. In 1999 he entered the Conservatoire de Toulouse and from 2002 he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in the class of Michel Béroff. After graduating from the Conservatoire National de Paris, Laloum began to study under Yevgeny Korolyov. He took lessons in chamber performing and attended master classes with Dmitri Bashkirov, Paul Badura-Skoda, Pascal Devoyon, and Jean-Claude Pennetier. Laloum received his diploma in Paris in 2006 and was admitted to the “3rd Perfectionnement” course at the Conservatoire de Lyon in the class of Géry Moutier.
In 2007 Laloum appeared in a performing chamber concerts at the Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron and the Académie Maurice Ravel where he was awarded the Maurice Ravel Prize.
Laloum has performed at many prestigious festivals and concerts halls as soloist and chamber musician in France (the City of Music in Paris, the La Grange de Meslay festival, the Orange Tree festival and L’Epau in Deauville), Switzerland (Théâtre de Vevey and the Salle Métropole in Lausanne), Jordan, and Mexico. He has performed with the Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne and the Symphony of Lausanne under conductors such as Jesüs López-Cobos, Peter Csaba and Jean-Marc Grob.
Laloum has received a number of scholarships including a grant from the Fondation de France in 2006, an ADAMI grant in 2006–2007 and a grant from the Fondation Groupe Banque Populaire for 2007–2010. In September 2009 he won the first prize audience award at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition.
Laloum has performed at the Festival International de Piano; one of the most important piano festivals in the world. He released his first CD entitled Brahms: Pièces pour piano in 2011, and a CD of piano music by Schumann in 2013.
Watch and Listen
Adam Laloum performs two movements from Robert Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6.