Olivier Chauzu

After he won his two first prizes (piano and chamber music), he followed the cycle of perfection, worked with Dimitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher and began to perform in concerts in France and abroad.

He obtained a doctorate in Spanish literature from the University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, where he participated in the Romance Language Laboratory, and frequently gave Enrique Granados' Goyescas and Isaac Albéniz's suite Iberia in concert, for which he won the Diapason d'or.

Committed to contemporary creation, he also records Philippe Forget's cinq regards pour piano and Lucien Guérinel's trios.

In Toronto (Canada), he premiered Fragments de soleil by Philippe Forget, as well as Pablo Neruda's poems by Omar Daniel.

He has played with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra with Marco Parisotto, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy with Jérôme Kaltenbach, the Capella Istropolitana of Bratislava with Christian Benda, with Michel Tabachnik, the Orchestre régional Bayonne-Côte basque [fr] and performed with Raphaël Perraud, Pierre Amoyal, Staffan Mårtensson, Roland Daugareil, Nicholas Angelich, François Leleux, Jean-Pierre Armengaud, with whom he signed the complete work for four hands by Debussy for the Naxos label.