Wilhem LATCHOUMIA

WILHEM LATCHOUMIA

Wilhem Latchoumia

Wilhem Latchoumia is a highly unusual kind of pianist, equally successful and charismatic

in contemporary music and the mainstream repertory. The French musician is known for

his skill in devising programmes that venture well off the beaten track and his ability to

create a joyful rapport with audiences right from the start.

He pursues a brilliant career as a recitalist and concert soloist in France and on the

international scene that has taken him to the Barbican Centre in London, BOZAR in

Brussels, the Quincena Musical de San Sebastián, the Cité de la Musique and Opéra

Comique in Paris, the Concertgebouw in Bruges, as well as China (Shanghai, Beijing) and

the United States (New York). He works with the leading French orchestras (Orchestre

Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre National de

Lyon, Orchestre National d’Île-de-France) and with other international formations of

the front rank, including the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Teatro

Colón, the Tokyo Sinfonietta, the Ictus Ensemble and the Quatuor Diotima. His taste for

contemporarymusic has earned himthe favour of such composers as Pierre Boulez, Gilbert

Amy, Gérard Pesson, Philippe Hersant, Michael Jarrell, Jonathan Harvey, Pierre Jodlowski,

Karl Naegelen, Francesco Filidei, JoséManuel López López, Samuel Sighicelli, Oscar Bianchi

and Franck Bedrossian.

Born in Lyon in 1974, Wilhem Latchoumia studied in the class of Eric Heidsieck and Géry

Moutier at the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse of his native city, where

he obtained his Premier Prix with congratulations by unanimous decision of the jury. He

completed his training with Géry Moutier in the postgraduate class in Lyon, then became

a student of Claude Helffer and attended masterclasses by Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen and

Pierre-Laurent Aimard. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in musicology. Having received

awards from the Hewlett-Packard Foundation (‘Musicians of Tomorrow’, 2004) and at the

twelfth Montsalvatge International Contemporary Music Competition (Girona, Spain), he

achieved dazzling success at the Orléans International Piano Competition in 2006, where

he won the Premier Prix Mention Spéciale Blanche Selva and five other prizes.