MUSICAL PROJECT

CD recording
Vienna Altes Rathaus

Composer: French Music
Publisher: Universal

NOTES

After a year at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (QEMC) as artist-in-residence (2021-2022) in the class of Louis Lortie and Avedis Kouyoumdjian, as well as a bachelor from the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Brussels with Aleksandar Madzar with honours, Liam is now following his studies at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna since September 2023, continuing his work with A. Kouyoumdjian in piano and chamber music. In this discipline, he performed during the 2022-2023 Season with renowned musicians such as violinist Chihiro Kitada, 3rd prize ARD 2016 with her Amabile Quartet, cellist Aleksey Shadrin, 4th prize Queen Elisabeth Competition (CMIREB) 2022 and violinist Andrei Baranov,
1st prize in CMIREB 2016 for an occasion. He worked with them with the support of the De Clippele family, hosts of the competition for twenty years. During his first months in Vienna, Liam Dugelay created the Trio Souvenir, alongside Sakura Itoh, official 2nd violin in Brno Philarmonik and Gustav Wocher, cellist involved in Sinfonieorchester Lichtenstein for several years, both student of MDW. They have been invited to perform in beautiful places such as the main hall of Brno Conservatory (Tchek Republik), De Clippele’s salon in Bruxelles, and to work with musicians such as Peter Schuhmayer, Sibila Konstantinova (in MDW), Kubelik trio in Prague and Andrei Baranov in Essen (Germany).
Liam is also involved in vocal accompaniment. In QEMC (from September 2021 until March 2023), he worked with such singers as Sophie Koch, Stéphane Degoût and José van Dam as well as the piano accompanists Simon Lepper and Sophie Reynaud, in duo with François Pardailhé and Halidou Nombre, academician at l’Opéra Royal de Versailles. With Halidou, he is preparing a recording project for the 2024-2025 season.
In solo, Liam recorded the three sonatas by Robert Schumann in QEMC - and played the Dichterliebe with François Pardailhé in parallel - performing them at the Much Waterloo Festival and the Stavelot Festival in Belgium, and at l’Academia Perosi and Busto Artizio BA Classica in partnership with the Como Festival in Italy. At the Music Chapel, he also attended masterclasses with Andrei Korobeinikov and Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden. Liam has taken part in several prestigious academies, including, in France, Villecroze academy with A. Kouyoumdjian (September 2022) and Ravel academy with Jean-Frédéric Neuburger and Denis Pascal (August 2021), and in Canada, Orford Music with Sarah-Davies Buechner, where he was semi-finalist of the 2022 Orford Music Prize and Domaine Forget with Louis Lortie (June 2023).
It is also thanks to his participation in the closing concert of the Michel Plasson Academy (South of France, August 2021) with L. Lortie in which he participated, that Anja Krauss and Bernd Schober, official musicians in Staatskapelle Dresden present at the occasion, invited him to perform in Dresden Semperoper with the solo woodwinds of the orchestra on the 23rd of January 2025 for his debut in Germany. Before that occasion, they will play the same repertory, which includes Scarbo, 3rd movement of Gaspard de la Nuit de Maurice Ravel in Savona Festival (Italy).
French and Canadian, Liam received his initial training at the Conservatoire Régional de Paris and maintains close links with the Conservatoire National de Paris (CNSMDP) through his work with composer and pianist J.F. Neuburger. In 2022, he was the youngest finalist in l’Académie Jarrousky de La Seine Musicale (Paris) out of 210 candidates. Since 2021, he’s supported by the French Fondation Safran pour la Musique.