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Mathis Cathignol

Year of birth: 2000
Country: France

Mathis Cathignol (1)
Mathis Cathignol (3)
Mathis Cathignol (2)

Born in 2000, Mathis obtained his master’s in piano in 2022 at the Paris National Conservatory of Music and Dance with the highest honours, studying with Florent Boffard, Claire Désert, Romano Pallottini, and Roger Muraro. He is now completing a second master’s in collaborative piano at the same institution with Jean-Frédéric Neuburger and Yumi Otsu, while continuing piano studies with Célimène Daudet. Supported by the Banque Populaire Foundation, he has won numerous prizes, including First Prize at the Pierre Barbizet International Piano Competition (Marseille, 2024), and Third Prize at the Epinal International Piano Competition (2025). As a soloist, he has performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, Fauré’s Ballade, Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, and Chopin’s Piano Concerto in E minor with leading orchestras in France and abroad. He has given recitals at venues and festivals such as the Goethe-Institut Lyon, Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre in Paris, Un piano sous les arbres in Lunel-Viel, Musiques en Écrins in Vallouise-Pelvoux, and Musique dans la Rue in Aix-en-Provence. In 2025, he appeared on the radio broadcast Générations France Musique, and performed at the Nohant Festival Chopin, Festival de Musique de Pontlevoy, and Festival International de Piano de la Roque d'Anthéron.

Programme

1st round

Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106, “Hammerklavier” 
     I. Allegro
     II. Scherzo: Assai vivace – Presto
     III. Adagio sostenuto
     IV. Largo – Allegro risoluto

Isaac Albéniz
Iberia, Book I
     III. Corpus Christi

2nd round

Robert Schumann
Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 11
     I. Un poco adagio – Allegro vivace
     II. Aria: Senza passione, ma espressivo
     III. Scherzo: Allegrissimo – Intermezzo: Lento. Alla burla, ma pomposo – Allegrissimo
     IV. Finale: Allegro un poco maestoso

Fritz Kreisler, arr. Sergei Rachmaninoff
Liebeslied

Maurice Ravel
Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55
     I. Ondine
     II. Vislice / Le Gibet
     III. Scarbo

3rd round

Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16
     I. Andantino – Allegretto 
     II. Scherzo: Vivace 
     III. Intermezzo: Allegro moderato 
     IV. Finale: Allegro tempestoso

Prizes received

  • 1st prize, Cognac International Competition, Cognac, France, 2023
  • 1st prize, Pianissima International, Marcq-en-Barœul, France, 2024
  • 2nd prize, International Piano Competition in Collioure, Collioure, France, 2024
  • 1st prize, Pierre Barbizet International Piano Competition, Marseille, France, 2024
  • 3rd prize, Epinal International Piano Competition, Épinal, France, 2025