BIOGRAPHY
Born in December 1986, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger's exceptional musical aptitude and curiosity soon became evident through his passion for piano, organ and composition and, deciding to focus on the piano, he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in 2000, where he received highest honours in piano, accompaniment, and chamber music in the classes of Jean-François Heisser, Jean Koerner, Itamar Golan, and Christian Ivaldi.
Since being recognized by the Académie Maurice Ravel at the age of 15, he has been the laureate of numerous international competitions, including four prizes (the 3rd ‘Grand Prix,’ prize awarded by the public, price awarded by the musicians of Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the SACEM prize) at the 2004 Long-Thibaud competition and won the 2006 Young Concert Artists International Auditions held in New York. Under the YCA auspices, he made his USA debuts in December 2006, including recitals at the Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York and at the John F.Kennedy Center, Washington DC, receiving great public acclaim and rave reviews in the Washington Post and the New York Times.
Even more than these outstanding achievements, it is for his personality and extraordinary musical maturity that Jean-Frédéric Neuburger is much sought-after as recitalist, having already performed at such prestigious events as the Festivals of Radio-France-Montpellier, Auvers sur Oise, La Roque d'Anthéron, Duznicki Chopin Festival, Domaine Forget, les Folles journées de Nantes, Tokyo and Rio, Piano aux Jacobins, Festival Chopin à Bagatelle, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, at the series of the Louvre and Orsay museums and the Darmstadt Chopin-Gesellschaft. In November 2007, he made his recital debut at Suntory Hall in Tokyo.
As soloist, he has appeared with the London Philharmonic, Baden-Baden Philharmonic, Danish National Orchestra, l'Orchestre national de Montpellier, , l'Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France. In 2006, he made two important debuts: the first in Shanghai, in recital and with the Shanghai Philharmonic, and the second, his Tokyo concerto debut (Beethoven's Concerto n° 3) with the New York Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel. In spring 2007, he gave a series of concerts around Paris and in the Salle Pleyel with the Orchestre national d'Ile de France (Liszt Concerto n° 1) for the re-opening season of Paris before travelling to America and around Europe for summer festivals. Autumn saw another concert series in the USA and a tour of Japan with Orchestre national de Lyon (Ravel's Concerto in G) followed by a return to the Salle Pleyel with Orchestre Colonne (Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand). In 2008 he was invited to perform with Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège (Messiaen), George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra (Mozart), Ensemble Orchestral de Paris (Mendelssohn), Hong Kong Sinfonietta (Saint-Saëns), London Philharmonic Orchestra (Brahms) and Bamberg Symphony (Beethoven) under the baton of Kristof Pendrecki, invited again under Jonathan Nott in 2009.
Devoted to perfecting his art, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger currently studies with Reiko Hozu and Vladimir Krainev and is, above all, dedicated to discovering new repertoire - whether for solo piano or chamber music - from Bach to contemporary composers.
In 2003, at the age of 16, he recorded the complete Chopin Etudes for the Disc'Auvers collection, a version that has already been compared to those by the great masters. A double CD with one disc dedicated to Chopin and the other featuring a live recital was released by the same label in March 2006, followed, one year later, by the complete Czerny “The Art of Finger Dexterity” on Mirare. In 2008, he released the recording of the three piano sonatas by Brahms on Disc'Auvers, and the live recording at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, “Live at Suntoy Hall”.
