Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Pianist Gilles Vonsattel leads a Master Class with students from Yale School of Music, Stony Brook University, and The Juilliard School.
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Felix Mendelssohn Trio No. 2 in C minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 66
Yale School of Music: Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, piano; Kate Arndt, violin; Guilherme Nardelli Monegatto, cello -
Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata No. 23 in F minor for Piano, Op. 57, "Appassionata"
Stony Brook University: Shir Semmel, piano -
Franz Schubert Trio No. 2 in E-flat major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, D. 929, Op. 100
The Juilliard School: Trio Atelier (Albert Cano Smit, piano; Kelly Talim, violin; Jonah Krolik, cello)
Recorded live in the Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio on February 25, 2019.
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Gilles Vonsattel
Swiss-born American pianist Gilles Vonsattel is celebrated for his versatility and originality. He has been honored with an Avery Fisher Career Grant, the 2016 Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award, and top prizes in the Naumburg and Geneva competitions, and has performed alongside world-renowned orchestras like the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, San Francisco Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg. He has performed recitals and chamber music at venues including Ravinia, Tokyo’s Musashino Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Lucerne Festival, Bravo! Vail, Chamber Music Northwest, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and Music@Menlo. An advocate of contemporary music, he has premiered compositions in the United States and Europe, collaborating closely with composers Jörg Widmann, Heinz Holliger, Anthony Cheung, and George Benjamin. Recent milestones in his career encompass a performance of Carlos Chávez’s Piano Concerto at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium with The Orchestra Now, a debut at Mostly Mozart, and a critically acclaimed recording of Richard Strauss and Kurt Leimer’s music with the Bern Symphony Orchestra and Mario Venzago for Schweizer Fonogramm. An alum of CMS’s Bowers Program, he earned his bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Columbia University and a master’s degree from the Juilliard School. Vonsattel is Professor of Piano at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is on the faculty at Bard College Conservatory of Music.