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Jérôme Ducros was awarded a Premier Prix avec félicitations by unanimous decision of the jury at the CNSM de Paris in 1993, and in 1994 won second prize and the special prize for the best performance of the set piece (Incises by Pierre Boulez, premiered in the final round) at the first Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition, organised by Maurizio Pollini with Luciano Berio as president of the jury. Since then his concert career has blossomed. He has given recitals at the Festival de Radio France et de Montpellier, the Orangerie de Sceaux, La Roque d'Anthéron, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Auditorium du Louvre, Radio France (where he is a regular guest), as well as in London, Geneva, Rome, Berlin, New York, Tokyo, South Africa, and at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
He has been heard as a soloist with such ensembles as the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonie de Chambre de Paris, Orchestre National de Lyon, and Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, under conductors including Emmanuel Krivine, Marc Minkowski, Christopher Hogwood, and Sergiu Comissiona.
As an enthusiastic chamber musician, he has played alongside Augustin Dumay, Michel Portal, Michel Dalberto, Paul Meyer, Gérard Caussé, Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, the Quintette Moraguès, the Quatuor Parisii, and Jérôme Pernoo with whom he has formed a duo since 1995. In 1999 he met the American soprano Dawn Upshaw, with whom he has given recitals at the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Lincoln Center in New York, and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris; the last-named concert was recorded by Erato.
In the 2003-04 season, after a tour of Japan, he made notable appearances with the Orchestre National de Lille, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchestre Français des Jeunes, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic, with such conductors as Alain Altinoglu, Paul Meyer, James Judd, and Emmanuel Krivine.
Among the works he frequently performs in recital is his transcription for two hands of Schubert's Fantasy for piano duet, which has been enthusiastically acclaimed by public and press. This is included in a CD of fantasies by Schubert (Ligia Digital) which won a Diapason d'Or de l'Année in 2001. The score of this transcription was published by Billaudot in September 2004.
The Trio for two violoncellos and piano which he composed in 2006 was already played several times (created in Minsk, taked again in the Festival from Jérôme Pernoo “ Les Vacances de Monsieur Haydn”, in the “Rencontres artistiques de Bel-Air” from Renaud Capuçon ; it will be given in 2008 to the “Tautavel en musique” from Gautier Capuçon, at the “Rencontres de violoncelles” in Beauvais, in London…). It is published at Billaudot in the collection of Gautier Capuçon.
Three differents CDs will appear in 2008 : one devoted to the work for piano and orchestra from Gabriel Fauré with the “Orchestre de Bretagne” under the baton of Moshe Atzmon (Quartz) ; the other devoted to a recital with Renaud Capuçon (Virgin Clasics), and the last devoted to the works for piano and cello of Beethoven with Jérôme Pernoo. In 2009, a CD devoted to French melodies will appear, in company of Philippe Jarousky, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon and Emmanuel Pahud (Virgin Classics)