Masterclasses

After finishing her studies at Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa with the maximum classification under the supervision of the pianist Tania Achot, and a master's degree in piano performance at Catholic University of Porto with Filipe Pinto Ribeiro, she continued her musical studies at Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel with Jan Michiels and in Madrid with Claudio Mehner. She obtained her PHD degree in 2015 with “Summa cum laude” at the Escola das Artes of the Catholic University Porto under the orientation of the pianist Sofia Lourenço and the composer Paulo Ferreira Lopes.

She won several national and international prizes, including “Maria Campina” and “Princess Lalla Meryem”, and performed as soloist with the Brussels Chamber Orchestra, as a prize of Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel Competition for students of all instruments. She has played, since 2006, in countries as France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Brazil and China, as well as in the main Portuguese festivals and concert halls, including Dias da Música, Sintra Festival, Oeiras Festival, Mafra Festival, Centro Cultural de Belém, Auditório Ruy de Carvalho, Centro Cultural de Cascais and Olga Cadaval Cultural Center, as soloist and with the leading Portuguese orchestras and conductors.

She is the author of the book "Schumann´s Carnaval: work of genius and madness" (based in her PhD dissertation and with a preface of Professor Mário de Vieira de Carvalho) and has recorded five CDs: "Waltz Transfigured" with works by Schubert and Schumann, “Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1" with Orquestra do Norte, "Encounter", with works by Mozart and Schumann, "Identity", with music by Debussy, Prokofiev and Liszt and most recent “Terra”, with works by Mussorgsky, Bartók, Albéniz.

Pianist of great originality, Teresa da Palma Pereira has been dedicated, in the last years, to a set of projects that aim to bring erudite music to new audiences, performing several cycles of commented recitals, as "Communication with music", "Classics outdoors", Classics for All" and " Classics in the Bookstore", at Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações, Palace of the Aciprestes, in Linda-a-Velha, social quarters and the bookstore “Ler Devagar”, in Alcântara, respectively.

She´s also the Artistic Director of the Oeiras International Piano Festival since 2018.

Bertrand Chamayou is one of today's most surprisingly brilliant pianists, recognised for his revelatory performances, which are at once powerfully virtuosic, imaginative and breathtakingly beautiful.

Known for his masterful conviction and insightful musicianship covering a vast repertoire, the French pianist performs at the highest level on the international music scene. He is recognised as one of the leading interpreters of the French repertoire, shedding new light on familiar and lesser-known works, while possessing a curiosity and deep passion for new music. He has worked with composers such as Pierre Boulez, Henri Dutilleux, György Kurtág, Thomas Adès and Michael Jarrell.

In 2019, Bertrand Chamayou won the Gramophone Awards for Best Concerto and Overall Recording of the Year for his album of Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos No. 2 and 5 with the Orchestre National de France and Emmanuel Krivine. His award-winning discography also includes Ravel's complete piano works (ECHO Klassik prize) and Liszt's complete Années de pèlerinage, recorded for Naïve (Choc de Classica; Diapason d'Or de l'année and Album of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2012). Chamayou is an exclusive Erato artist.

Chamayou appears regularly at the world's most prestigious concert halls and festivals, such as the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Lincoln Center New York, Philharmonie de Paris, Berlin Philharmonie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Southbank Centre International Piano Series, as well as Mostly Mozart in New York, Beethovenfest Bonn, Lucerne Festival, La Roque d'Anthéron, Edinburgh International Festival and Rheingau Musik Festival.

He has undertaken several important recitals of substantial bodies of work, most memorably Ravel's complete piano works, Liszt's Studies and ‘Années de pèlerinage’ and Messiaen's ‘Vingt regard sur l'enfant-Jésus’. Chamayou also enjoys high-profile artistic residencies in his own right at Radio France, the Gstaad Menuhin Festival and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

A passionate chamber musician, Bertrand Chamayou often performs with partners such as cellist Sol Gabetta, violinists Vilde Frang and Renaud Capuçon, pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and clarinettist Sabine Meyer.

Bertrand Chamayou was born in Toulouse and lives in Paris. He has received France's prestigious Victoires de la Musique Classique award on four separate occasions and in 2015 was appointed Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.

After a series of international premieres last year, 2019-20 promises another rich concert season, including performances at Munich Gasteig, London's Wigmore Hall, Paris Philharmonie, Tonhalle Zurich, Gothenburg, Detroit and Luzern. He also realises several projects at the Strasbourg music festival, including works by John Cage for piano prepared with the dancer Élodie Sicard. Chamayou will also make his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, tour with the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées and appear as artistic director and on the jury of the Long Thibaud Crespin Competition 2019.

Bertrand Chamayou performs with the best orchestras in the world, including the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, the Orchestre de Paris, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Wiener Symphoniker, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Montreal's Tonhalle Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Bamberg Symphoniker and NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, among many others. He has had the privilege of sharing the stage with conductors Pierre Boulez and Sir Neville Marriner and counts Semyon Bychkov, Mikko Franck, Philippe Herreweghe, Philippe Jordan, François-Xavier Roth, Tugan Sokhiev, Stéphane Denève and Emmanuel Krivine among his regular podium partners.