It was at the age of 16 that Gaspard Dehaene’s musical encounter with Chopin led him to abandon his childhood passion—tennis—for the passion of his life: music. He studied with Anne-Lise Gastaldi at the Paris Regional Conservatory (CRR) before earning his Master’s degree in 2012 from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), where he trained with Bruno Rigutto and Denis Pascal.
He was later admitted to the Mozarteum University in Salzburg to study with Jacques Rouvier, then continued to refine his artistry with Rena Shereshevskaya at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. In parallel, he earned a Master’s in vocal accompaniment in 2017 from the CNSMDP under the guidance of Anne Le Bozec. Winner of the Pro Musicis Prize, the San Sebastian International Piano Competition, Piano Campus, and the Alain Marinaro Grand Prize, he has performed at numerous festivals in France—La Roque d’Anthéron, La Folle Journée de Nantes, Festival 1001 Notes, Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Radio France Montpellier, Flâneries Musicales de Reims (filmed by Medici TV), Chopin à Bagatelle—and abroad, in Europe, Morocco, New Caledonia, and at the Beijing Young Artists Festival.
His concerto experience has led him to perform under the baton of conductors such as Dmitri Liss, Elena Schwarz, Mihhail Gerts, and Flavien Boy, with orchestras including Sinfonia Varsovia, the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, and Orchestre Pasdeloup. A passionate chamber musician, he regularly shares the stage with Anne Queffélec, Raphaël Sévère, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Gérard Caussé, Paul Meyer, and the Voce and Girard quartets. He is also a frequent duo partner of violist Adrien Boisseau, with whom he has recorded two albums that received critical acclaim.
Deeply drawn to the art song repertoire, he has collaborated—through the Orsay-Royaumont Foundation—with mezzo-soprano Victoire Bunel, with whom he released the album Carte postale in January 2021 on the B Records label. Contemporary music is also central to his artistic life: in 2007, he premiered Une page d’éphéméride by Pierre Boulez, a work he had the privilege of studying with the composer himself. He has since worked with composers such as R. Bruneau-Boulmier, F. Choveaux, C. Bray, and A. Beneteau, recording the latter’s Douarnenez Sonata.
To date, Gaspard Dehaene has released three solo albums with the label 1001 Notes: Fantaisie (2016), Vers l’ailleurs (2019) featuring works by Schubert, Liszt, and Bruneau-Boulmier—unanimously praised by the press—and more recently À la Mazur, dedicated to Chopin and released in January 2022.
Among his recent engagements, he made his debut at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in March 2025 and performed the complete Transcendental Études by Liszt at the Lisztomanias Festival in Châteauroux. Named a “Génération Spedidam” Artist (2017–2021) and a Steinway Artist since 2019, Gaspard Dehaene has been teaching as assistant to Rena Shereshevskaya at the École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot since September 2021.
Photograph: Hiroshi Koike