Antoine Didry-Demarle

A graduate of the Haute École de Musique de Genève, the Universität der Künste Berlin, and the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, Antoine Didry-Demarle has developed an eclectic career as a pianist, combining recitals, lectures, chamber music, educational outreach, and performance art. Noticed at the age of 12 at the Concours National Léopold Bellan in Paris, he received guidance from Philippe Keler, François-Frédéric Guy, Brigitte Engerer, Elisabeth Athanassova, Laszlo Simon, and Jean-Jacques Balet. In 2005, at the Victoria Hall in Geneva, he produced the world premiere of the Feuillets inédits pour piano et ondes-Martenot by Messiaen. He also plays in Geneva Opera House, in Zurick’s Tonhall or at Auditorio Stelio Molo della RSI under the baton of great chefs such as Laurent Gay, Stefan Ashburry and Heinz Holliger.

2023 Awardwinner of the International Competition of Piano Citta di Moncalieri, Antoine Didry-Demarle is invited to numerous festivals and performs worldwide (France, Switzerlands, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Armenia, Mali, Mauritius Island). He is supported by several private foundations and the Société Générale’s music sponsorship program, and in 2006 led the Ecouter/Inventer/Partager project at the Bamako Conservatory in Mali. His taste for nature and contemporary language naturally lead him to the music of John Cage, whose Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano he has recorded in their entirety. He founded the following year the Duo Métamorphoses with Italian pianist Andrea Corazziari. Both pianists regularly appear on Swiss radio and television in outstanding performances.

In 2010, Antoine Didry-Demarle signed with BecarProd to record Images Croisées, focusing on piano works by Debussy, Brahms and Liszt. Member of the Trio Thalberg since 2016 and of the Trio Améthyste since 2019, he now devotes much of his time to chamber music and extraordinary projects: for example, he recently performed the complete Catalogue d’Oiseaux by Olivier Messiaen in the heart of the Serpiano forest.

For more than 25 years, Antoine Didry-Demarle has also pursued a distinguished teaching career, which began at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève in 2000. Holder of the Certificat d’Aptitude, he has been a professor since 2007 at the Conservatoire Charles Munch (CMA11). Deeply committed to artistic transmission and pedagogy, he regularly serves as a trainer at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris and coordinates ambitious projects for his students, including the 150th anniversary celebrations of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Maurice Ravel at the Médiathèque musicale de Paris, the performance Danses portugaises at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, the show Sports et Divertissements at the Chapelle Saint-Louis, and a large-scale Vexathon—a complete performance of Vexations by Erik Satie—bringing together over 100 pianists performing in relay for nearly 24 hours in support of rare diseases at the Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière.

Antoine Didry-Demarle is also frequently involved in music awareness programs for young audiences, as well as with the association L’Art pour Grandir. In 2026, on the occasion of the centenary of György Kurtág, he coordinates masterclasses, lectures, and concerts devoted to the Hungarian composer’s music with the Ensemble Contemporain and the Piano Department of the Conservatoire Munch.

An insatiable explorer, Antoine Didry-Demarle is also an experienced adventurer whose expeditions—most often undertaken in complete autonomy—have taken him to the four corners of the globe.

He regularly gives lecture-recitals at universities and masterclasses worldwide.