Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula
About
Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula is a versatile musician from Switzerland, both pianist and composer. He plays in venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Barbican Hall, the Palau de la Musica (Barcelona), the Koerner Hall (Toronto), the Sendesaal (Bremen), Carnegie Hall, the 92Y Buttenwieser Hall (New York), the Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels), and at festivals such as Lucerne, Lavaux Classics, Ittinger Pfingstkonzerte, Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, Düsseldorf Schumannfest and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
He is the recipient of many awards in both piano and composing including the first prizes at the 2012 Edvard Grieg International Composer Competition in Oslo, 2013 Lausanne Concours d’Interpretation Musicale and 2016 Premi de Musica de Cambra Montserrat Alavedra, the third prize at the 2015 Ciurlionis International Piano Competition in Vilnius, and the 2015 Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize. He holds the 2014–15 Rebanks Family Piano Fellowship at the Glenn Gould School in Toronto, and has been invited by András Schiff to give solo recitals across Europe as part of his Building Bridges concert series.
Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula is supported by the Leenards Foundation, the city of Nyon, the Fritz Bach Foundation, the Rotary Club, and the Denereaz Foundation.