Biography
Considered one of the greatest talents of his generation, pianist Adam Laloum has received international recognition, winning 1st Prize in the prestigious Clara Haskil Competition in 2009, as well as the Victoire de la Musique in the “Instrumentalist of the Year” category in 2017.
Adam Laloum performs in concerto with prestigious orchestras such as the Mariinsky Orchestra/Valery Gergiev, Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin/Nicholas Collon at the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne/Joshua Weilerstein at the Saint-Denis Festival, Orchestre National de Belgique/Hugh Wolf, Orchestre de Paris/Cornelius Meister, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse/Joseph Swensen/Maxim Emelyanychev, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Sir Roger Norrington, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo/Alain Altinoglu, Orchestre National de France/Andris Poga, Orchestre National de Lyon/Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège/John Neschling, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Jonathan Nott, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg/Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester/James Gaffigan, Orchestre National de Bordeaux/Jaime Martin, etc.
Adam Laloum's recital appearances include the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Wigmore Hall, Munich Herkulessaal, Tonhalle Zürich, Auditorium du Louvre, Piano à Lyon, Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, Grand Théâtre d'Avignon, Société Chopin de Bern, Palais des Beaux-arts de Bruxelles, Bilbao, Japan. He is a guest at the Klavier-Festival-Ruhr, the Festivals of Verbier, Colmar, Lucerne, la Roque d'Anthéron, SWR Schwetzingen, la Chaise-Dieu, Folles Journées de Nantes, Piano aux Jacobins, Bad Kissingen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Schubertiade Hohenems, and more.
Highlights of the 2024/25 season include his return with the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse in Mozart's 24th concerto. Adam Laloum will also be performing evening recitals at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, as well as at the Schubertiade in Hohenems. After several successful discs (Brahms, Schumann) released by Mirare (“Diapason d'or de l'année 2014”, “Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros”, “ffff” de Télérama, Fono Forum), Adam Laloum records Brahms' two Piano Concertos with the Berlin Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester conducted by Kazuki Yamada (Sony Music).
In 2020, his first collaboration with Harmonia Mundi sees the release of two critically acclaimed Schubert sonatas, followed by an album devoted to Brahms' Op.116 and 3rd Sonata, which is awarded a CHOC de Classica. His latest album, released in early 2024, is again devoted to Schubert, with the Moments Musicaux and the penultimate Sonata, D959.
In May 2024, an album with the Hanson Quartet devoted to Schumann (Harmonia Mundi) received a 5 Diapasons and a CHOC from Classica. The next album, to be released in 2025, will again be devoted to Schumann, his Kreisleriana and Novellettes.
A sought-after chamber musician, Adam Laloum has released several recordings with Trio les Esprits, the latest of which is devoted to Schubert and awarded a The Strad “Recommends” (Sony Music). With clarinettist Raphaël Sévère and cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière, he released Brahms's two Sonatas and Clarinet Trio (“Diapason d'or de l'Année 2015” and ffff de Télérama). With violist Lise Berthaud, he recorded an album devoted to Schumann, Schubert and Brahms, which also won a Diapason d'or, and with violinist Mi-Sa Yang, an album devoted to Poulenc, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Debussy (Mirare).
Adam has been the co-founder and artistic director of the Pages Musicales de Lagrasse festival since 2015, a festival dedicated to the chamber music repertoire. He began playing the piano at the age of ten and continued his musical studies at the Toulouse Conservatoire before entering the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in 2002 in Michel Béroff's class. He obtained his Diplôme de formation supérieure de piano in June 2006, and continued his studies at the CNSM de Lyon in Géry Moutier's class. He then joined the Hamburg class of Evgeni Koroliov, winner of the 1977 Clara Haskil Prize.
