Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt's piano travels all over the world, all genres, from baroque music to contemporary music. An eye on his concerts around the world draws the portrait of an insatiable researcher, deep, open to all winds, regions, aesthetics. His technique, very sure, allows him an absolute concentration, a total absorption in his musical universe. We could read in La Provence, after a first recital given at La Roque d'Anthéron,
"A pianist with flawless technique and a strong poetic sense".
Invited to play with prestigious orchestras such as the Mariinsky Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux-Aquitaine conducted by Paul Daniel, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christian Vásquez or the Saint-Etienne Opera Orchestra, pianist Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt is invited to perform in the great concert halls such as the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Auditorium in Bordeaux, the Salamanca Hall in Japan, the Konzerthaus in Wien or the Beijing Forbidden City Concert Hall as well as many other concert halls in China.
He regularly plays in festivals in France, such as the Roque d’Anthéron Festival, Folle Journée in Nantes, Esprit du Piano in Bordeaux, the Nohant Chopin Festival, "Piano aux Jacobins", Berlioz Festival, Abbaye de l’Epau, Jeudis Musicaux in Royan, "Piano en Valois", "Lisztomanias" in Châteauroux, the Sully Festival and in numerous countries such as Italy, Belgium, Germany, United States or South Korea.
He recorded in 2022 for the label La Dolce Volta the "Ballets" CD dedicated to Ravel, Stravinsky and Prokofiev. Immediately after its release, the recording receives the tremendous honours from the reviews:
Diapason d'Or,
TTTT from Télérama,
5 Stars Classica, praise from the Quebec magazine "Le Devoir" where we can read
"On a few occasions per decade emerges, here or there, an artist whose we were unaware of everything and who imposes himself in a few notes as an essential player from now on in our musical universe (...) A shock has just been given to us by 46-year-old French pianist, Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt." (Christopher Huss)
His other recordings dedicated to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Chopin, Schumann and Liszt are acclaimed by musical magazines such as "Diapason", "Classica" or "Gramophone" and regularly broadcast on radio:
"Such subtlety in the chiaroscuros and such intimacy in the contemplative episodes! The line is never forced: the fervor remains noble, its subtle slowness constantly inhabited." (Bertrand Boissard, Diapason magazine), Alain Cochard writes in "Pianiste" magazine: "Without an ounce of effect, Fonlupt seizes by the power of his gesture, the variety and the poetry of his sound palette, the urgency of the discourse and a simply masterful sense of the great arch." and Jérémie Bigorie, in Classica, about his recording devoted to the Schumann Fantasie op.17 and the Liszt Sonata:
"Masterful but singing, his play filled with great lyricism sees far. An equal happiness in Liszt's Sonata, of an impressive organic flow, with dazzling moments that few pianists can allow themselves in concert."
A documentary about the world premiere world premiere of "Anamorphoses" for piano and orchestra, composed by french composer Joseph-François Kremer, with the Simon Bolivar Orchestra was produced by TV music channel Mezzo. His interest for contemporary music leads him to create several pieces by the French composer Florentine Mulsant, including 11 preludes and her sonata for cello and piano.
Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris in the class of Bruno Rigutto and at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule in Berlin with Michael Endres. His other teachers include Yonty Solomon at the Royal College of Music in London and the Russian-Georgian pianist Eliso Virssaladze at the Moscow State Tchaïkovsky Conservatory.
His vast repertoire allows him to offer thematic recitals or several series of concerts, such as for the Berlioz Festival in 2018 where he performed 5 recitals on the theme of the 5 movements of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique (6 hours of music performed entirely from memory).