conferences, chamber music, educational courses and performances. Antoine Didry-Demarle was discovered at the age of 12 at Léopold Bellan National Competition in Paris, he since been favoured with advices from Philippe Keler, François-Frédéric Guy, Brigitte Engerer, Elisabeth Athanassova, Laszlo Simon, Jean-Jacques Balet. In 2005, he performed at Geneva’s
Victoria Hall the world creation of Messiaen’s “unpublished pages” for piano and ondes Martenot. 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 Thalberg Trio since 2016 and Améthyste Trio since 2019, he dedicates a big part of his activity to chamber music and to extra-ordinary projects: for example, he recently performed the complete Catalogue d’Oiseaux by Olivier Messiaen in the heart of the Serpiano forest.
Antoine Didry-Demarle holds a Certificat d’Aptitude and is currently a piano teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris 11. His students frequently excel in the large-scale projects he coordinates in the capital (Rachmaninov, Portuguese Dances, Sports and Entertainment, Piano Marathon). An insatiable explorer, he is also a seasoned adventurer whose expeditions, most often carried out in complete autonomy, have taken him to the four corners of the globe. Antoine Didry-Demarle is regularly called upon to give concert lectures at universities and master-classes around the world.
