Célimène Daudet

Pianist Célimène Daudet, who comes from two cultures, French and Haitian, is a soloist whose playing and artistic commitment are recognised by audiences and the international press. She performs all over the world and recently made her debut at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and the Philharmonie de Paris. 

She can be heard at major French festivals (Folle journée de Nantes, Festival Variations, Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Piano aux Jacobins, Piano en Valois, Festival de Pâques d'Aix, Festival International de la Roque d'Anthéron, etc.). She is also a regular guest on radio (Radio Classique, France Musique, France Inter, France Culture, Fip) and television programmes.

Her recordings, ranging from Bach to Messiaen (on Arion and NoMadMusic), have been carefully crafted and unanimously praised by critics: A Tribute to Bach, Bach's Art of Fugue, Dans la malle du Poilu (works about the Great War), Beethoven's Sonatas for Piano and Violin with Amanda Favier, Preludes by Debussy and Messiaen, and Messe Noire, dedicated to Liszt and Scriabin. His album Haiti mon amour (NoMadMusic), released in 2021, is dedicated to a previously unreleased repertoire. It reached number one in sales at Fnac and was awarded 5 stars in Classica, 5 Diapasons, and ffff in Télérama. It also attracted significant interest, with a two-page article in Le Devoir and a portrait of Célimène in L'Obs. In 2022, she released a new album entitled Alter Ego, which juxtaposes works by Federico Mompou and Frédéric Chopin.

Her repertoire also includes the creation of several works dedicated to her. Recently, she performed Benoît Menut's Nombres and Anima-Alias, composed by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi, using a live computer and a breath sensor. In 2021, she premiered Christian Rivet's concerto for piano and orchestra. In addition, she has collaborated for several years with choreographer Yoann Bourgeois, with whom she has performed Bach's The Art of Fugue on stage more than a hundred times.

Son répertoire inclut également la création de plusieurs œuvres qui lui ont été dédiées. Récemment, elle a interprété "Nombres" de Benoît Menut, "Anima-Alias" avec utilisation d'un ordinateur en direct et d'un capteur de respiration, composé par Jacopo Baboni Schilingi. En 2021, elle a créé le concerto pour piano et orchestre de Christian Rivet. De plus, elle a collaboré pendant plusieurs années avec le chorégraphe Yoann Bourgeois, avec qui elle a interprété "L'Art de la Fugue" de Bach sur scène plus de cent fois. In April 2023, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Célimène gave the French premiere of the piano concerto ‘Baron Lacroix’ by Haitian woman composer Carmen Brouard, accompanied by the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris.

She is the founder of the Haiti Piano Project, launched in 2017 with the aim of bringing a concert piano to Haiti and creating the first international piano festival there, of which she is now the artistic director. This initiative has been widely reported in the press around the world.

Trained at the National Conservatories of Music and Dance in Lyon and Paris, then at the Banff Centre in Canada, she won the Pro Musicis International Prize and was named Artiste Génération Spedidam. She has received support from the Safran Foundation for Music and her career has been recognised with a Senate medal. Célimène has been a Young Leader since 2018.