Biography
Hailed by the Washington Post as a « young artist displaying maturity and elegance », French pianist Olivier Moulin studied under Eric Heidsieck and Gery Moutier at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Lyon, where he was unanimously awarded first prize with the highest honors. After advanced studies in the same institution, he continued his training in Austria at the University Mozarteum Salzburg in the classes of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling for the piano and Clemens Hagen for the chamber music, where he obtained a Master of Arts with the highest honors. Throughout his studies, he has also benefited from the advices of masters such as Aldo Ciccolini, Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Dominique Merlet, Jacques Rouvier, Sergio Perticaroli …
Prizewinner of international piano competitions, he is a regular guest at prestigious concert halls around the world : Salle Gaveau, Salle Cortot, Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, the Louvre Auditorium and Radio-France in Paris, Lyon National Opera, Metz Arsenal, Jacobins in Toulouse, Mozarteum Salzburg, Franz Liszt Museum in Budapest, BASF Gesellshafthaus in Germany, Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City, Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Japan, Shanghai Concert Hall, as well as in Washington DC, Osaka, Beijing, Istanbul, New Delhi, Geneva, Lisbon, Oslo, Minsk …
He is also invited to perform at major international festivals : La Roque d’Anthéron International Festival, the Radio-France Festival, Chopin Festival in Paris, Central European Music Festival in Slovakia, Lisztomanias Festival in Istanbul, Virtuosi Festival in Brazil, Festival International de Piano « En Blanco y Negro » in Mexico City, Croisements Festival in China, Gümüsluk International Music Festival in Turkey, Bellapais International Festival in Cyprus … His concerts are regularly broadcasted by radio and television in France and abroad.
His tours have taken him to most European countries, as well as to the USA, Japan, China, South Korea, Mexico, Brazil, Belarus, Turkey, India, Indonesia, Algeria …
Olivier Moulin performs as a soloist with the Orchestre National de Metz, the Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra in China, the Camerata de Coahuila in Mexico, under the baton of conductors Peter Csaba, Jacques Mercier, James Liu, Kanako Abe… His passion for chamber music also leads him to share the stage with numerous musicians : the Fine Arts Quartet, soloists of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the principal trumpet of the Berlin Philharmonic David Guerrier, Bertrand Chamayou, Edwin Crossley-Mercer… He also collaborates with many other artists, including Ève Ruggieri (concert-lectures on Frédéric Chopin and George Sand), or French actor Francis Perrin (Stravinsky’s « The Soldier’s Tale », Poulenc’s « Histoire de Babar »).
His first solo album, dedicated to Franz Liszt, was released under the AmeSon/Outhere label. This recording was praised by critics and featured in several broadcasts, notably on France Musique, Radio Classique…
After teaching at the Geneva Conservatory of Music in Switzerland, Olivier Moulin is currently a piano Professor at the Nancy Conservatory in France, and the President of the Épinal International Piano Competition (member of the World Federation of International Music Competition in Geneva). He is regularly invited to give masterclasses in Europe, the United States, Japan, China… and serves on the jury of numerous international piano competitions : Istanbul, Porto Santa Cecilia, the Scriabin Competition in Grosseto, the Sviatoslav Richter International Piano Competition…