Gaspard Thomas - NOSPR

Born in 1997, Gaspard THOMAS has won numerous awards in international competitions: First Prize at 2019 France-Amériques Competition as well as a Second Prize and 7 special prizes at the 2019 Piano Campus Competition in Pontoise; he is also a quarter-finalist at the 2021 Jaén Competition and selected for the 2019 Long-Thibaud Competition. He is laureate of the "Tchaïkovsky Promotion" of the Philippe Jaroussky Music Academy, and becomes artist in residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation in Paris in 2021.  

Gaspard THOMAS has performed as a soloist in both Chopin Concertos, Rachmaninov Concerto No. 1, Beethoven Concerto No. 4, Saint-Saëns Concerto No. 1 and Shostakovich's Concerto No. 1. He has played with the Orchestre Appassionato conducted by Mathieu HERZOG and the Orchestre Opéra Éclaté with conductor Victor JACOB.  

He is a guest artist in several festivals in France, such as the Festival de la Roque d'Anthéron, the Festival de Deauville, the Lisztomanias, “Les Pianissimes”, the Festival Chopin de Nohant, Piano en Saintonge, the Festival de Saint-Céré. Gaspard THOMAS has performed at the Auditorium de Radio France, the Auditorium de la Seine Musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt, the Orangerie de Bagatelle, the Fondation SingerPolignac, the auditoriums of the Petit Palais and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Guimet Museum, the Steinway & Sons showroom in Paris, the Polish Embassy and the Liszt Institute in Paris, the Théâtre de Fontainebleau, the Château de Lourmarin, the Abbaye de Pontlevoy. He also participated in the 20th Festival “Nuits Caraïbes” in Guadeloupe in February 2023. 

As a much appreciated chamber musician, he regularly performs with the violinist and composer Élise BERTRAND (Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad in Switzerland, concert tour in Alsace on early 2023, recital at the Auditorium of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France). He also plays with cellist Stéphanie HUANG at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Sala Verdi in Milan. 

In 2023, Gaspard THOMAS is invited to perform at the Festival Chopin de Bagatelle and the Young Talents Europeen Festival in Paris. In December, he will take part in a tour of 7 concerts in New York thanks to the Orphée Musique association.  

At the beginning of 2024, he will play as a soloist at the Salle des Concerts de la Cité de la Musique with the Conservatoire's Orchestra of Laureates under the direction of Lucie LEGUAY. 

Gaspard THOMAS graduated from the CNSMDP with a Master's degree in Piano with honors in Claire DÉSERT’s class and has worked during masterclasses and academies with such artists as Sir András SCHIFF, Bertrand CHAMAYOU, Bruno RIGUTTO, David KADOUCH, Bernard d'ASCOLI, Jean-François HEISSER, Hortense CARTIER-BRESSON, Jean-Efflam BAVOUZET. 

Having studied chamber music, accompaniment, writing and orchestration in the same establishment, his musical career has been enriched by encounters with personalities like Thierry ESCAICH, Fabien WAKSMAN, Anne Le BOZEC, Marc-André DALBAVIE, Jean-Frédéric NEUBURGER, François SALQUE, Emmanuelle BERTRAND. 

He also composed in 2019 "Poème", a piece for 96 pianists which was premiered during a concert at the Philharmonie de Paris.