Born in Marseille in 1981, Jonathan Gilad began learning the piano at the Conservatoire National de Région de Marseille with Pierre Pradier. In 1992 he won the Premier Grand Prix of Marseille for piano and the Gold Medal in chamber music. In 1991 Jonathan Gilad won first prize at the Salzburg Summer Academy. He was also laureate of the Natexis Foundation for the year 2002. In 1991 Jonathan Gilad began studying with Dmitry Bashkirov in Madrid and Salzburg. From 1992 to 2000 he also studied with Tatiana Dernovski and from 1999 to 2001 he studied at the International Piano Foundation in Cadenabbia, Lake Como, working with Karl-Ulrich Schnabel, Leon Fleisher and Fou-Tsong.
A regular guest at numerous festivals (Ravinia, Aspen, Klavier Ruhr Festival, Luzerne and Verbier), he also performs in prestigious venues (Carnegie Hall, New York, Herkulessaal in Munich, Wigmore Hall, London, Berlin Philharmonic, as well as at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam). He has also performed with many orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Salzburg Camerata Academica, Maggio Musicale Orchestra in Florence, São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, under the direction of Daniel Barenboim, Sir Neville Marriner, Zubin Mehta, Eiji Oue, Seiji Ozawa, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Temirkanov, Sandor Vegh, Alain Lombard amd Tugan Sokhiev.
Jonathan Gilad gives regular chamber music recitals with musicians such as Julia Fischer, Viviane Hagner, Danjulo Ishizaka, Mihaela Martin, Nikolaj Znaider, Frans Helmerson, Daniel Müller-Schott, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon. Recent engagements have taken him to Munich (Philharmonic with the Russian National Orchestra), Frankfurt (Alte Oper with the Frankfurter Museumsorchester and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie), Paris (Théâtre du Châtelet and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées with the Orchestre National de France), to Koln (Philharmonic) as well as to Verbier, Stavanger and Jerusalem.
He has recorded a CD with EMI, in the « Début » series, of works by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. This recording was nominated for the « Victoires de la Musique Classique 1999 ». Under the Lyrinx label Jonathan Gilad has recorded 3 CDs (Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev). Under the PentaTone label, alongside Daniel Müller-Schott and Julia Fischer, he recorded Mendelssohn’s trios, a recording which received a Diapason d’Or. Again with Daniel Müller-Schott, under the Orfeo label, he recorded a CD of Mendelssohn’s cello and piano pieces.
