The concert by Hugues Leclère

Hugues Leclère was born in France in 1968. He perfected his playing with Catherine Collard and entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris being the first nominated of the competitive entrance examination. He got the first prize awards in piano, music theory, and chamber music.

He then began a career that took him to 42 countries, with over 900 concerts, at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Radio-France auditorium, the Musée d'Orsay, the Chopin Festival in Nohant, the Vézère Festival... and in Asia, Russia, Central, South and North America in most European countries: Concertgebouw and Amsterdam Opera, Musikhalle in Hamburg, Pushkin Hall in Moscow, Coimbra Festival in Portugal... He was invited by many orchestras, such as the Camerata of the Berliner Philharmoniker, the National Radio Orchestra of Prague, the National Orchestra of Lorraine, the Orchestre d'Auvergne, the National Orchestra of Mexico City, the Orchestra of the Republican Guard, the Minsk Orchestra, the Samara National Orchestra, the Timisoara Orchestra, the Brasov Philharmonic, the Reichenbach Philharmonic... conducted by Jacques Mercier, Jean-Pierre Wallez, Arie van Beek, Mikhail Shcherbakov, Ondrej Lenard, Sébastian Lang-Lessing, Vladimir Valek, Stefan Fraas…

Hugues Leclère is a privileged interpreter of Debussy, Ravel and their contemporaries, and asserts his full maturity in the Germanic repertoire, which he approaches as a soloist or in chamber music. His passion for Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven led him to seek out the original sonorities of classical instruments. He owns a copy of Stein that is ideally suited to the masterpieces of the late 18th century. He is the partner of Augustin Dumay, the Streichquintet of the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Soloists of the Orchestre de Paris, the Modigliani, Talich, Debussy, Amarcord, Mandelring quartets…

As a recognized player in contemporary music, Hugues Leclère is the commissioner of more than 50 new works, written for him by 45 composers. With his projects Debussy, poète de la modernité (2012, created at the Cité de la Musique and performed more than 50 times worldwide), Debussy, 12 Etudes de modernité (created at the Musica Festival in 2018) and Beethoven, les Bagatelles entrelacées, commissioned by the Philharmonie de Paris, he seeks to shed light on the links between the creative processes of past centuries and those of our time.

Passionate about literature and history, he designs original shows that interweave different artistic expressions, notably with actors Marie-Christine Barrault, Daniel Mesguich, Francis Huster and Alain Carré, as well as painter Ruben Maya. In 2013, he designed three original shows that obtained the official label of the Mission du Centenaire de la Première Guerre Mondiale, including L’Engrenage 1913–14 for more than 40 performances. In 2021, he created L'autre Royaume, where he shared the scene with the writer Pascal Quignard. Improviser, Hugues Leclère has been collaborating since 2017 with the pianist and improviser Jean-François Zygel, through three shows that combine the interpretation of works by great composers with improvisations: Bachmania (2017), Debussymania, (2018) and Beethovenmania (2019).

Hugues Leclère is artistic director of the Nancyphonies international festival and higher education teacher of piano at the Music Regional School of Paris and the Pôle Supérieur Paris Boulogne-Billancourt.