Jean-Baptiste Doulcet's Improvisation Concert at Salle Cortot

Pianist Jean-Baptiste Doulcet will perform a concert entirely dedicated to improvisation at Salle Cortot, merging his passions for music and cinema. The evening draws inspiration from films by directors such as Carl Theodor Dreyer, David Lynch, Agnès Varda, Sofia Coppola, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Ingmar Bergman. Doulcet's improvisations will traverse Schubert, musique concrète, Japanese jazz lounge, motets, and Rachmaninoff polyphony. The concert coincides with the release of his new album on Mirare. Born in Paris in 1992, Doulcet is a pianist, improviser, and composer. He won 4th prize and the Audience Prize at the 2019 Marguerite Long Competition (chaired by Martha Argerich), the Modern Times Prize at the 2019 Clara Haskil Competition (chaired by Christian Zacharias), 2nd prize at the 8th Nordic Piano Competition, and an award from the Fondation Charles Oulmont. Classica Magazine considers him a rising star of French piano alongside Alexandre Kantorow and Rémi Geniet. His debut live CD featuring Beethoven/Schumann and improvisations was released on Les Spiriades in 2017; a second album of Schumann and Liszt is forthcoming on Mirare.