French pianist Jonathan Fournel is the winner of the 2021 Queen Elisabeth Competition. He also won the two Audience Awards (Musiq3 Prize and Canvas-Klara Prize).
He plays regularly with artists such as G. Capuçon, A. Dumay, V. Julien-Laferrière, as well as the Hermès and Modigliani Quartets. He has also performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras in Europe and Asia – the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestre national de Lorraine, the Croatian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra, Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Belgium National Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Jiangsu Symphony Orchestra, Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, – under the direction of S. Denève, G. Madaras, A. Dumay, J. Heyward, P. Oundjian, and many others.
Jonathan Fournel studied at the Musikhochschule in Saarbrücken, then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where he obtained his Master’s and subsequently the Artist Diploma in the classes of B. Engerer and M. Dalberto. Since 2016, he has been an artist-in-residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium under the direction of L. Lortie and A. Kouyoumdjian.
His next CD, to be released in 2022, will be devoted to Brahms’ Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel and Sonata No.3.