Eloise Bella Kohn plays at France’s prominent festivals
Eloïse Bella Kohn is a regular guest at France’s most prominent concert venues and festivals, such as Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Cité de la Musique, Salle Gaveau, Auditorium du Musée d’Orsay, Auditorium de Radio France, La Roque d’Anthéron, Radio France à Montpellier, Lille Piano Festival, Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse, Rouen, and the Festival International d’Art lyrique in Aix-en-Provence.
Kohn was born in Paris in 1991 and started her musical education at the Yamaha music school at the age of four. She also attended the National Superior Conservatory of Paris for Music and Dance (CNSM) and studied with Michel Béroff, Eric Le Sage, David Fray and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. She continued her studies at the University of Music in Freiburg, Germany and the University of Music and performing Arts Vienna with Lilya Zilberstein. She received important musical impulses during master classes with Aldo Ciccolini, Dmitri Bashkirov, Thomas Adès, Robert Levin, Christian Zacharias, András Schiff.
In 2016, she was awarded the Young Talent of the year award by the renowned cultural magazine Diapason, and in 2018 became an official artist under the auspices of the Yamaha brand. These two recognitions, and the depth of her musicality, help her career’s upward trajectory. Together with violinist Christoph Koncz she is co-founder of the chamber music festival Europäische Musiktage Heidelberg and as a soloist and chamber musician, she is invited to important European concert houses and festivals, such as the Berliner Philharmonie, the Vienna Konzerthaus and Musikverein, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Mozarteum Salzburg. She shares the stage with successful and prestigious orchestras and conductors, and her partners include Bruno Delepelaire, Daniel Ottensamer, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Silvia Careddu, Sophie and Félix Dervaux- soloists of the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam- as well as Nobuko Imai, Arabella Steinbacher, Christiane Karg, Renaud Capuçon, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Aylen Pritchin, Philippe Berrod, Michel Portal and Eric Le Sage.
She has released three highly acclaimed albums which have won her the “CHOC de Classica” and “Le Choix de France Musique” and “Diapason d’Or” awards.