David Fray will perform the Goldberg Variations in a recital at the Gulbenkian Festival in Lisbon, Portugal, on the evening of Wednesday, 6 October. The performance will afterwards be streamed on Arte.tv as part of the platform’s Pianomania series, beginning on...

David Fray has won the 2021 Opus Klassik Award for Innovative Concert of the Year. He is honoured for his Schubert interpretation in the brilliant ballet production Ghost Light by fellow award winner, the choreographer John Neumeier, with the Hamburg Ballet. Seeing...

Ghost Light, the first ballet created for the times of corona, will premiere in Hamburg this month before traveling to Baden Baden for four performances on October 8th through 11th. Arte will stream the performances live. The ballet is set to Schubert’s piano...

David returned to Chile to perform Bach’s Goldberg Variations at Santiago’s Municipal Theater on 24 July. Álvaro Gallegos on radio station ADN91.7 calls Fray’s performance “excellent,” noting that it was, “a moment of peace and inspiration courtesy of...

Two celebrated soloists recording together for the first time, pianist David Fray and violinist Renaud Capuçon turn to Johann Sebastian Bach and four of his sonatas for violin and keyboard: No 3 in E major, No 4 in C minor, No. 5 in F minor and No 6 in G major. The...

"David Fray presents a collaborative album of Bach concertos for two, three and four pianos. He performs with Audrey Vigoureux, Emmanuel Christien and Jacques Rouvier in what he calls "a musical family affair". Fray, along with Vigoureux and Christien, has studied...

David Fray performed Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor Christoph Eschenbach. Writing in the Chicago Tribune, Alan Artner praised Fray, writing: "David Fray, who has played in Chicago elegant Mozart with the orchestra...

David Fray has been announced as a guest artist returning to perform with Chicago Symphony Orchestra during the 2018/19 season. David’s return to the CSO follows four dates with the prestigious U.S. orchestra between 22nd-27th February, where he performs Chopin’s...

David Fray and the Cleveland Orchestra drew one of the largest audiences of the summer at the Blossom Music Center on 29th July 2017, with a "luminous" performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24. Of the performance, Zachary Lewis (Cleveland's The Plain Dealer) said...

“I had put Chopin to one side and wasn’t even sure whether I would play him again one day,” says the French pianist David Fray. Chopin’s music had been absent from Fray’s active repertoire for some 15 years before he recorded his new recital album, which comprises...

David returns to Dublin's National Symphony Hall on Friday, 20 May, to perform Ravel's jazz-inspired piano concerto alongside the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, with Gérard Korsten conducting. The programme also features Haydn's Symphony No. 96 "The Miracle",...

David Fray's performance on 18th February at The Royal Festival Hall in London can be heard on BBC's iPlayer. David performed alongside the Philharmonia Orchestra, and you can listen to performances of music by Ravel and Debussy, as well as David's performance of...

David Fray performed at The Royal Festival Hall with The Philharmonia Orchestra on 18th February, scintillating the audience with a rendition of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24. Both David and French conductor Alain Altinoglu, making his debut with the Philharmonia,...

David Fray has stepped in to perform with The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra on 26, 27 and 28 February for Martin Frost, who has had to cancel due to illness. David will play/direct Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor at the Ordway Concert Hall in Minnesota. Click...

On 3 May 2016, David will be performing at The Festival Pianistico Internazionale in Brescia, Italy. The Festival Pianistico Internazionale is one of the world's largest events that dedicates itself to the celebration of the piano. The festival has not only hosted...

“David Fray had the difficult task to play this on the day after the Paris attacks. But music can impart strength when she is strong." - Deutschlandradio Kultur The musicians of the DSO Berlin, featuing pianist David Fray, were tasked with the challenge of performing...

“An artist has to fight against his own fears and weaknesses, and being an artist is not only working on music, it’s working on yourself through music." - David Fray David recently sat down with The Epoch Times' Milene Fernandez and spoke candidly on what inspires and...

David Fray’s return to the New York City recital stage was “rapturously received” (The New York Times). He performed three of the composer’s sonatas in the Board of Officers Room at the Park Avenue Armory on Tuesday, 6th October. The New York Times’ James R. Oestreich...

Shostakovich’s Orango – an incomplete opera whose manuscript came to light only in 2004 – is a glossy fusion of wit and political venom. The ‘Orango’ of the title is half man, half ape – a symbol of the decadent West. It’s a work matched for vivid colouring by...