Søleils Blancs - Piano concert by Jean-Baptiste Doulcet

Institut Français du Danemark is proud to present a unique piano concert by French pianist, Jean-Baptiste Doulcet, at the French Embassy in Copenhagen. The concert follows the release of his third cd, Søleils Blancs, on August 30, featuring Scandinavian composers.  

Music of light and landscape, the works by Grieg, Nielsen and Sibelius that make up this album were brought together by Jean-Baptiste Doulcet after years of travelling and studying in Northern Europe. The lingering glimmer of the Far North is at work in the lively music of Scandinavian and Finnish composers. All three have long been regarded as great masters by French composers such as Ravel, who paid an immense respect to their profound and virtuous music. A repertoire of extraordinary profusion, concealing a thousand marvels, often miniature, and too little performed in France.

Besides the Scandinavian ones, Doulcet will also perform pieces of the French composers Ravel and Fauré as well as one of his own pieces: 

• C. Nielsen : 3 klaverstykker op.59 (11’)
• M. Ravel : Sonatine (11’)
• J. Sibelius : The Trees, op.75 (11’)
• C. Nielsen : Drømmen om "Glade Jul" (2’)
• G. Fauré : Nocturne en Mi bémol mineur op.33 n°1 (8’)
• E. Grieg : Holberg Suite (18’)
• JB Doulcet : Improvisation on a danish theme (8’)

Institut français offers a glass of wine after the concert. 

About Jean-Baptiste Doulcet

Born in 1992, the versatile French pianist, Jean-Baptiste Doulcet is also an accomplished improviser and composer, and a recipient of Prizes in international competitions such as Marguerite Long (4th Prize and Audience Prize), Clara Haskil (Modern Times Award) and Nordic Piano Competition (2nd Prize).

Doulcet graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in piano, improvisation and chamber music and later studied with Emile Naoumoff, Dmitri Bashkirov, Epifanio Comis and Alexey Lebedev. He is also a very prolific composer, with no less than twenty works in his catalogue comprising music for solo instruments, chamber music groups and ensembles.

One of the rising stars of the young generation of French pianists, Doulcet performs extensively in France, in such festivals as La Roque d'Anthéron, Piano en Valois, Piano aux Jacobins, Chopin Festival in Nohant and in Scandinavia. He has also been invited by the Orchestre de Paris to perform the piano part of Stravinsky’s Petrushka under the baton of Klaus Mäkelä at the Paris Philharmonie and both Granada and BBC PROMS festivals.

Ticket price: 100 DKK