Gabriel Durliat is a French pianist, conductor and composer. Winner of the Concours Général des lycées (1st Prize in music history), he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris the same year, at the age of 16, where he studied with Hortense Cartier-Bresson, Thierry Escaich, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger and Guillaume Connesson.
He obtained the First Prizes in piano, harmony and collaborative piano — all three unanimously with the jury's congratulations, ranked first — as well as Prizes in counterpoint and fugue.
In September 2022, he was admitted to the third cycle — Artist Diploma program — while continuing to perfect his playing with Cédric Tiberghien at the Académie Jaroussky. He is currently studying conducting in the class of Alain Altinoglu.
Conducting
Alongside his activity as a pianist, in June 2022, Gabriel Durliat was one of six musicians selected to study at the Malko International Academy for Young Conductors in Copenhagen, organized by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. There he benefited from the guidance of leading conductors such as Fabio Luisi, Herbert Blomstedt and Johannes Schlaefli. He conducted an excerpt from Mahler's Symphony No. 4 at the Copenhagen Philharmonic (concert broadcast on Medici TV).
In October 2023, he was assistant conductor of the Ensemble Intercontemporain for a production of Gérard Grisey's Espaces Acoustiques at the Philharmonie de Paris.
First Frenchman to win the Piano Campus competition in February 2022.International distinctions · 2022 — 2023
After becoming the first Frenchman to win the international Piano Campus competition in February 2022, Gabriel Durliat won the 2nd prize at the Hans von Bülow International Conducting from the Piano Competition in Meiningen (Germany) in May 2023, a rare competition devoted to conducting from the piano.
Concerts & residencies
Gabriel Durliat performs regularly with orchestra, in recital and in chamber music, and accepts invitations from prestigious programmes such as the Festival International de Piano de la Roque d'Anthéron, the Folle Journée de Nantes, the Festival Radio France de Montpellier, the Festival d'Auvers-sur-Oise, the Festival de Deauville...
His first solo album, combining the music of Bach with that of Fauré, released in 2024 on the Scala Music label, was warmly received by the critics. Laureate of the Banque Populaire Foundation, Durliat is artist-in-residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac.
