Invited by numerous orchestras (Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre Philharmonique des Pays de Loire, Orchestre National de l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre de la Philharmonie G. Enesco de Bucarest, Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Cannes Provence Côte d’Azur, Orchestre Sinfonietta de Picardie, Bernard Thomas Orchestra), he also devotes a significant part of his activities to chamber music. He participates in numerous festivals: Yokohama Piano Festival (Japan), Les Arcs Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron Festival, Montpellier and Radio France International Festival, Paris Summer Festival.
With a broad repertoire in which French music plays a major role, he has commissioned several works (Etudes for piano by Anthony Girard, Concerto for piano and orchestra by Max Pinchard).
He has also recorded piano works by Jehan Alain, transcriptions and paraphrases by Franz Liszt, Ernest Bloch’s sonatas for violin and piano with Alexis Galperine, and works for two pianos by Mozart, Brahms and Ravel with Cédric Tiberghien.
Holder of five prizes from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, as well as a degree in literature from the University of Paris-Sorbonne, Frédéric Aguessy studied with Monique de la Bruchollerie, Yvonne Lefébure, Pierre Barbizet, Dominique Merlet, and Geneviève Joy-Dutilleux.
A laureate of the Cziffra Foundation and the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, he is interested in conducting and has conducted works for chamber orchestra as well as for choir and orchestra.
Since 1999, he has been invited each year to participate as a concert performer and teacher at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, founded by Nadia Boulanger and now known as the ‘American Schools of Art’.
He was an assistant professor at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique and currently teaches at the Conservatoire National de Région de Rouen.
