GUILLAUME MASSON IS A pianist who performs and does transcriptions for piano solo

 
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Born in Orleans (France), he studied classical piano at the Paris Conservatory, where he got a master degree in interpretation. He also went abroad to perfect his playing at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Laureate of many piano competitions, his passion for Chopin led him to take part to "the 16th international Frederic Chopin Competition" in Warsaw (2010), where he reached the third step.

He gives concerts and masterclass worldwide, especially in Europe and Asia, and released his first album in 2011 (Mozart, Chopin, Ravel, Debussy). He plays regularly with chamber music, and has a piano/flute duo called Izanami (with Marie Ishii).

Aside from his performing activities, he also studied music writing, which led him to do transcriptions for piano of orchestral works, from classical music to jazz and film soundtracks. One of his biggest work to this day is his piano versions of Studio Ghibli’s orchestral works (Hayao Miyazaki’s movies) composed by Joe Hisaishi. From this project, he released the album “Piano transcriptions”. He also published all his transcription scores here on Mymusicsheet. They are represented by Sony/ATV and Warner Chappell Music.

Graduated from a master’s degree in pedagogy (from the Paris Conservatory), he also teaches piano in Conservatoire d’Arrondissement de Paris (here and here).