French pianist with Lebanese and Mexican heritage, Simon Ghraichy chose Paris as his adopted city after a cosmopolitan childhood. Student of Michel Béroff, Daria Hovora, and Hortense Cartier-Bresson at the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris (CNSMDP), he later continued his training with Tuija Hakkila at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. His virtuosity, bold artistic choices, and musical versatility quickly propelled him onto the international stage, where he now performs across five continents.
He has performed in prestigious venues such as the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the philharmonic halls of Paris, Berlin, and Saint Petersburg, the Royal Opera of Versailles, the Gran Teatro Nacional in Lima, the Teatro Mayor in Bogotá, the Istanbul Opera, as well as various concert halls across France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Brazil, Lebanon, Egypt, Australia…
He is a regular guest at numerous festivals, including the Besançon Festival, the Bard Music Festival in New York, the Baalbeck International Festival (Lebanon), the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Violon sur le Sable in Royan, Les Nuits du Château de la Moutte, the Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Musicalta in Alsace, the Biarritz Piano Festival, the Killington Music Festival in the USA, and Ciudad de las Ideas (Mexico)… He also takes part in unique projects such as Nuit Blanche, organized by the Institut de France, as well as choreographed recitals with star dancers like Marie-Agnès Gillot (La Seine Musicale), Dorothée Gilbert (Festival de Toulouse), and Elisa Carrillo (Berlin State Ballet).
Passionate about contemporary music, he collaborates extensively with today’s composers, contributing to the creation of numerous new works. He is the dedicatee of Fractalis, a piano concerto by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz, which he premiered with the Orchestre National de Bretagne. He is also the dedicatee of a sonata for augmented piano and live computer by Italian composer Jacopo Baboni Schilingi, which he premiered in November 2023 at the Auditorio Santa Cecilia in Rome (Italy).
While his early recordings primarily focused on Romantic composers like Liszt and Schumann, his exclusive collaboration with the Deutsche Grammophon label has resulted in two albums, HERITAGES and 33, which reflect his diverse influences through works by Villa-Lobos, Lecuona, Gottschalk, Márquez, de Falla, Albéniz, Granados, and others.
Simon Ghraichy is a Steinway Artist.
French pianist with Lebanese and Mexican heritage, Simon Ghraichy chose Paris as his adopted city after a cosmopolitan childhood. Student of Michel Béroff, Daria Hovora, and Hortense Cartier-Bresson at the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris (CNSMDP), he later continued his training with Tuija Hakkila at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. His virtuosity, bold artistic choices, and musical versatility quickly propelled him onto the international stage, where he now performs across five continents.
He has performed in prestigious venues such as the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the philharmonic halls of Paris, Berlin, and Saint Petersburg, the Royal Opera of Versailles, the Gran Teatro Nacional in Lima, the Teatro Mayor in Bogotá, the Istanbul Opera, as well as various concert halls across France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Brazil, Lebanon, Egypt, Australia…
He is a regular guest at numerous festivals, including the Besançon Festival, the Bard Music Festival in New York, the Baalbeck International Festival (Lebanon), the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Violon sur le Sable in Royan, Les Nuits du Château de la Moutte, the Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Musicalta in Alsace, the Biarritz Piano Festival, the Killington Music Festival in the USA, and Ciudad de las Ideas (Mexico)… He also takes part in unique projects such as Nuit Blanche, organized by the Institut de France, as well as choreographed recitals with star dancers like Marie-Agnès Gillot (La Seine Musicale), Dorothée Gilbert (Festival de Toulouse), and Elisa Carrillo (Berlin State Ballet).
Passionate about contemporary music, he collaborates extensively with today’s composers, contributing to the creation of numerous new works. He is the dedicatee of Fractalis, a piano concerto by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz, which he premiered with the Orchestre National de Bretagne. He is also the dedicatee of a sonata for augmented piano and live computer by Italian composer Jacopo Baboni Schilingi, which he premiered in November 2023 at the Auditorio Santa Cecilia in Rome (Italy).
While his early recordings primarily focused on Romantic composers like Liszt and Schumann, his exclusive collaboration with the Deutsche Grammophon label has resulted in two albums, HERITAGES and 33, which reflect his diverse influences through works by Villa-Lobos, Lecuona, Gottschalk, Márquez, de Falla, Albéniz, Granados, and others.
Simon Ghraichy is a Steinway Artist.
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February
9 – 10
Rennes, France
Orchestre National de Bretagne
Direction Joshua Tran
Ravel Concerto en Sol – Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
March
26
Salle Gaveau – Paris
With Marc André | Contrebasse
Schumann, Fauré, Gershwin, Piazzolla…
April
5
Harvard University – USA
Augmented Piano with Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
February 9 – 10 | Rennes, France
Orchestre National de Bretagne
Direction Joshua Tran
Ravel Concerto en Sol – Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
March 26 | Salle Gaveau – Paris
With Marc André | Contrebasse
Schumann, Fauré, Gershwin, Piazzolla…
April 5 | Harvard University – USA
Augmented Piano with Jacopo Baboni Schilingi