Biography
Trained by Brigitte Engerer, Jean Koerner, and Christian Ivaldi, Jonas Vitaud graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris with four first prizes (piano, chamber music, piano accompaniment, and harmony).
Winner of several international competitions both as a soloist and chamber musician (Chamber Music in Lyon, ARD in Munich, Trieste, Beethoven in Vienna), he performs at prestigious festivals and venues: Roque d’Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins, Folle Journée in Nantes/Tokyo/Ekaterinburg, Festival de la Chaise Dieu, Théâtre des Champs Élysées and Auditorium of Radio France in Paris, Richard Strauss Festival in Germany, iDans in Istanbul, Summer Festival in Dubrovnik, French May in Hong Kong, Phillips Collection in Washington, Warsaw Opera, Flagey in Brussels, Oslo Konserthus...
He has performed with orchestras such as those of Mulhouse, Cannes, Toulouse, Consuelo Orchestra, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Munich Radio Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra…
Chamber music holds a special place for him, and he collaborates with artists like singers Karine Deshayes, Sumi Hwang, and Yumiko Tanimura; cellists Victor Julien-Laferrière, Steven Isserlis, and Yan Levionnois; violinists Mi-Sa Yang and Ragnhild Hemsing; pianist Adam Laloum; clarinetists Raphaël Sévère and Olivier Patey; and the Zaïde and Hermès Quartets.
Passionate about contemporary music, Jonas Vitaud has worked with leading composers such as Henri Dutilleux, György Kurtag, Thierry Escaich, Philippe Hersant, Yann Robin, and Bruno Ducol. These collaborations reflect his openness to diverse languages and aesthetics.
In 2024, he premiered Bruno Ducol’s Opus 50 - Entre regard et silence with soprano Laura Holm and actor Matthieu Marie at the Festival Messiaen du pays de la Meije.
He has recorded extensively.
In 2025, an album dedicated to Antonin Dvořák’s piano music will be released by MIRARE.
He records solo for the MIRARE label and has received many awards:
- CHOC Classica
- Apple Music Classical’s Album of the Month (June 2021) for Beethoven 1802
- 5 Diapason rating for Tchaikovsky
- “Coup de cœur” from PIANISTE magazine
- “Impressive CD” by The WholeNote (Canada) for his double album Debussy, jeunes années…
In 2016, he received the GRAND PRIX SOLO INSTRUMENTAL from the Académie Charles Cros (CHOC Classica, 5 Diapason) for his Dutilleux and Liszt album released by NoMadMusic.
In chamber music, albums were released in 2019 by MIRARE and ALPHA CLASSICS:
- A Mozart album with violinist Mi-Sa Yang
- A Russian repertoire album with cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière.
Jonas Vitaud has taught at the CNSM in Paris since 2013 and became a piano professor in 2022/2023.
He is an associate artist of the Singer-Polignac Foundation (www.singer-polignac.org).
Reviews:
“A great delicacy of articulation and an exquisitely crafted tone… the interpretation proves deeply inspired, never compromising on musical discipline…”
— Bertrand Bolognesi
“He produces highly sympathetic, beautifully phrased and voiced accounts of these pieces with their elusive moods and half-lights: a pleasure to hear…”
— BBC Music Magazine
