21. Gdańska Jesień Pianistyczna – Jonathan Fournel

Jonathan Fournel is the recipient of the Grand Prix – the Queen Mathilde Prizes at the International Competition for Music named after Queen Elizabeth of Belgium. He has also won the Musiq3 Audience Award and the Canvas-Klara Award. He was also named "Classical Revelation of the Year 2017" by the Parisian organization ADAMI, and his sponsors include Fondation Colas, Goéland Foundation, and Allumeurs d'Étoiles. He has a contract with Alpha Records, which has won numerous Gramophone Awards. In October 2021, he released an album featuring works by Brahms. He has performed in prestigious concert halls and on festival stages, including: Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Rheingau Music Festival, Verbier Festival, Klavier Festival Ruhr, La Roque d'Anthéron Festival, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow, Bozaru in Brussels, Louisiana Museum in Denmark, Kumho Museum of Art in Seoul, Tongyeong Concert Hall, São Paulo Concert Hall, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Verdi Hall in Milan, and Fondation Louis-Vuitton in Paris. Jonathan Fournel has worked with conductors such as Stéphane Denève, Jonathan Heyward, Rafael Payare, Peter Oundjian, Hugh Wolff, Fan Tao, Jacques Mercier, Frank Braley, and Lawrence Foster, and with orchestras such as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Belgian National Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lorraine, the Croatian Radio and Television Orchestra, and the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra.