Gauvain de Morant

Pianist who began playing at the age of eight at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris, where he received guidance from Yves Henry, Michel Béroff and the Ysaÿe Quartet; he graduated with a first prize for piano with distinction. After a year at the CRR Boulogne-Billancourt in the class of Marie-Paule Siruguet, he studied with Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden at the Royal Conservatoire Brussels, where he also completed a specialisation in piano accompaniment with Philippe Riga and, in 2018, a master’s degree in music education. In 2013 he received the Gerofi-Preis, in 2016 a second medal at the international competition of Brest and, with the Trio Spilliaert, first prize at the Svirél international competition in Slovenia. He founded the Trio Spilliaert and the Musicabel association, of which he is chairman. In the Cybele catalogue he plays the piano on the album Jacqueline Fontyn: Trios (2022).