François Dumont (pianist)

Dumont is notable for winning fifth prize in the sixteenth International Chopin Piano Competition.

[1] Dumont was born in Lyon on 19 October 1985 and began to learn the piano at the age of five.

[2] At the age of fourteen, Dumont entered the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied with Bruno Rigutto and Hervé Billaut.

Other mentors of Dumont include Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, Dmitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, William Grant Naboré, Paul Badura-Skoda, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Stanislav Ioudenitch, and Fou Ts'ong.

[3] Dumont has been invited to perform with orchestras in Lyon, Montpellier, Corsica, and Paris, playing concertos by Poulenc and Mozart as well as Bach concertos for three and four pianos with Bruno Rigutto.