The Washington Post described French pianist JEAN-FRÉDÉRIC NEUBURGER as a “brilliantly polished, profoundly gifted young pianist” following his debut recital at age 20 in the Young Concert Artists Series at the Kennedy Center.

During the 2009-10 season, Mr. Neuburger will appear in a concerto performance in Liszt’s Piano Concerto No.2 with conductor Osmo Vanska and The Philadelphia Orchestra, in addition to recitals at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, and the La Jolla Music Society.

Mr. Neuburger made his New York concerto debut during the 2008-09 season, in YCA’s Gala Irene Diamond Concert, performing with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and conductor Giancarlo Guerrero at Lincoln Center. He also appeared at Buffalo Chamber Music Society, Merkin Hall in New York City, Brownville Concert Series (NE), Harvard Musical Association (MA), Fox Hill Village (MA), the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and Port Washington Library (NY). His concerts abroad included recitals in France and Japan as well as concerto appearances in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Bach’s Concerto in G Minor with the Bamberg Symphony, Messiaen’s Des Canyons aux étoiles with the Orchestre de Poitou-Charentes, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 with the Osaka Philharmonic, Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Orchestre National d’Île de France, and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the NHK Symphony in Japan.

In past seasons, Mr. Neuburger made concerto debuts in Shanghai with the Shanghai Philharmonic in Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and in Tokyo with the New York Philharmonic in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, under the direction of Lorin Maazel. In May 2007 he appeared with Yoel Levi and the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France in Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 for the re-opening of Paris’s Salle Pleyel. Other performances as soloist with orchestra have included Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major with the Orchestre National de Lyon on tour in Japan, and appearances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, Danish National Orchestra, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, as well as recitals at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Louvre in Paris, Chopin festivals in Poland and Germany, and at other prestigious festivals in Europe.

Mr. Neuburger’s impressive list of awards includes First Prize at the 2002 Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists; Second Prize and the Beethoven Prize at the 2004 International José Iturbi Competition in Valencia, Spain; Third Grand Prix, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Prize, the Audience Favorite Prize and the Sacem Prize at the 2004 Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris; and Second Prize at the 2005 London International Piano Competition.

Born in 1986, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger began studying piano with Claude Maillols at the Académie Maurice Ravel at the age of nine, and also developed an interest in the organ and composition, which he studied with Emile Naoumoff and Jean-François Zygel. He entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in 2000, where he received highest honors in piano, accompaniment, and chamber music in the classes of Jean-François Heisser, Jean Koerner, Itamar Golan, Christian Ivaldi and Marie-Françoise Bucquet. Mr. Neuburger currently works with Reiko Hozu and Vladimir Krainev.

Mr. Neuburger released a CD of music by Czerny and Liszt on the Mirare label in September 2008. He also has three CDs available on the DiscAuvers label: the complete Chopin Etudes, released in 2003; another recording of Chopin works released in 2006; and a Brahms disc released in 2008. He has recently been appointed to the position of teacher at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.