François Killian
Klavierbegleitung - accompagnement musicalFrançois Killian has won prizes at many of the most famous international music competitions, including the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv, and the Piano Masters of Monte Carlo. In 1981 François Killian won the ARD Music Competition in Munich.
He has performed with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the State Philharmonic of the Rhineland Palatinate, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Saarbrücken, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Kraców Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of famous conductors such as Emmanuel Krivine, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Theodor Guschlbauer, Grzegorz Nowak and Radoslav Szulc.
He regularly performs in concert in famous venues such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Düsseldorf Tonhalle, the Bausaal in Essen, London's Wigmore Hall, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Salle Gaveau à Paris with musical partners such as Natalie Dessay, Nobuko Imai, Gustav Rivinius, Philippe Bernold and Jacques Zoon.
François Killian has made a name for himself as an acknowledged interpreter of Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt and Ravel, as well as of works such as Babar by Poulenc, Kakteen by Paul Juon and Rain tree sketch by Toru Takemitsu.
His discography comprises many albums that reflect his continual work as a soloist and chamber musician. They have all been enthusiastically reviewed by the music press.
Born in Paris, François Killian studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse in Paris in Ventsislav Yankoff's class. He went on to perfect his skills at the College of Music in Hanover with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling.
François Killian