Born in December 1986, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger’s exceptional musical aptitude and curiosity soon became evident through his passion for piano, organ and composition and, deciding to focus on the piano, he entered the world renowned Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris at the age of thirteen and quickly received highest honours in piano, accompaniment, and chamber music in the classes of Jean-François Heisser, Jean Koerner, Itamar Golan, and Christian Ivaldi.

Laureate of numerous international competitions, notably four prizes at the 2004 Long-Thibaud competition (3rd ‘Grand Prix’, Prize awarded by the public, Price awarded by the musicians of Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France and the SACEM Prize) he was winner of the 2006 Young Concert Artists International Auditions held in New York, under the auspices of which he made his USA debuts in December 2006, receiving great public acclaim and rave reviews in the Washington Post and the New York Times.

Even more than these outstanding achievements, it is for his personality and the clarity of his musical perception that Jean-Frédéric Neuburger is much sought-after as recitalist and soloist, as well as his eclectic repertoire which encompasses early keyboard works to contemporary music, of which he is a passionate advocate.

A regular performer at festivals including Verbier, La Roque d’Anthéron, Festivals of Radio-France-Montpellier, Piano aux Jacobins, Auvers sur Oise, Menton, Rencontres Chopin à Nohant, Duznicki Chopin Festival, Domaine Forget, the Folles journées in Nantes, Tokyo and Rio, Festival Chopin à Bagatelle, he is invited to perform at the series of the Louvre and Orsay museums, the King’s Place, London, the Darmstadt Chopin-Gesellschaft, and has given two recitals in Suntory Hall (this first of which was made in to a live CD). In the 2010/2011 season Jean-Frédéric Neuburger will perform in eleven of the most prestigious European concert halls as one of the RISING STAR artists chosen by the European Concert Hall Organisation.

In concerto, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger performs around the globe with many of the world’s finest orchestras - London Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre national de Montpellier, Orchestre d’Auvergne, Orchestre national de Lyon and his debut with the New York Philharmonic (Beethoven No. 3) under Lorin Maazel in 2006 marked an important stage in his early career.

The list of recently performed concerti further demonstrates Neuburger’s versatility: Bach concerti with the Bamberg Symphony and Jonathan Nott, Beethoven No. 4 with the same orchestra and Kristof Penderecki, Saint Saëns (Concerto no. 2) with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Brahms (Concerto No. 1) with the London Philharmonic Orchestra/ David Angus and Orchestre Lamoureux/Kenneth Hsieh, Messiaen (Des Canyons aux étoiles) with the Liège Philharmonic, Mendelssohn (Double concerto for violin and piano) with Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and Mozart (Jeunehomme) with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra.

Highlights of the forthcoming seasons are performances with the San Francisco and the New World Symphony Orchestras under Michael Tilson Thomas, the Philadelphia Orchestra with Osmo Vanska, Orchestre de Paris with Lorin Maazel and Mikko Franck, Ensemble orchestral de Paris and Joseph Swensen, NHK Symphony Orchestra and Jun Maerkl, Sinfonia Varsovia and Hervé Niquet…

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger’s first recording - the complete Chopin Etudes - at the age of sixteen for the Disc’Auvers collection, already compared him to the great masters and his further recordings – have confirmed this opinion and inspired universal praise from critics, They include a double CD (with one disc dedicated to Chopin), the three Brahms Piano Sonata’s, both also on Disc’Auvers. In 2007 he started a series of recordings for the Mirare label with the complete Czerny “The Art of Finger Dexterity” , the live recording of his November 2007 Suntory Hall recital, and, most recently, his disc of Beethoven works featuring the Hammerklavier sonata and including a DVD of his own analysis this sonata). January 2010 saw the release of his most recent recording - of the Chopin and Alkan sonatas with acclaimed cellist Tatjana Vassiljeva.

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger was appointed Professor of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in 2009.