French pianist François Dumont’s international career was launched by his achievements at prestigious competitions such as the Chopin, Queen Elisabeth, Clara Haskil, and Monte Carlo Piano Masters. At the age of fourteen, he was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, where he studied under the tutelage of Bruno Rigutto. Dumont continued his studies at the International Piano Academy Lake Como, alongside esteemed artists including Dmitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, William Grant Naboré, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, and Andreas Staier. He furthered his musical education as a Theo Lieven Scholar at the Lugano Conservatory.

François Dumont has appeared as a soloist with the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre National de Lorraine, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia Les Siècles Orchestra, and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra among others, under the baton of conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, François-Xavier Roth, David Reiland, Alexander Sladkovsky, Antoni Wit, Jesús López Cobos.

His solo recordings include the complete Mozart sonatas, complete Ravel piano music, two Chopin recitals, and Chopin’s Complete Nocturnes, Moussorgsky, and Bach albums. His complete Chopin Nocturnes album was praised by the BBC Music Magazine for his “singing tone” and the International Piano Magazine considers it “a stunning new version that sets him apart”, while the American magazine Fanfare wrote, “There are few recent recordings to compare with this one.”

During the 2018-19 season, he performed Franck and Ravel concertos with the Les Siècles orchestra conducted by François-Xavier Roth. He gave a concert tour with Orchestre des Pays de Savoie with Mozart’s « Jeunehomme » concerto and debuted the Paris Philharmonie in 2019, with Schumann’s piano concerto.

François Dumont is a piano professor at the Haute-Ecole de Musique de Genève / Neuchâtel and is regularly invited for masterclasses in Europe and Japan.