Noticed and invited to perform by Itzhak Perlman when he was just 13, following that up with a performance at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory the following year, pianist David Kadouch parlayed wide recognition during his teenage years into a flourishing adult career. He has been especially active in his native France and in the U.S. Kadouch was born in Nice, France, on December 7, 1985. He began studying with Odile Poisson at the branch of France's National Conservatory in that city. After performing under Perlman's baton at a concert in New York, Kadouch was admitted by unanimous recommendation of the examiners at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSM). Graduating with honors, he moved on to the Reina Sofia music school in Madrid, Spain, studying with pianist Dmitri Bashkirov and also taking chamber music courses. Kadouch rounded out his education with master classes from Murray Perahia, Maurizio Pollini, Daniel Barenboim, and other top pianists. A familiar figure to prize juries, he made debut recitals in the late 2000s decade at some of the world's top venues, including the Philharmonie in Cologne, where he performed the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 ("Emperor"), and New York's Carnegie Hall in 2008, with David Zinman conducting the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. His solo recital debut came in 2010 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and that year, he backed violinist Alexandra Soumm on a recording of Grieg's violin sonatas on the Claves label. Since then, he has also given recitals in major European cities. Kadouch has been a favorite at festivals, especially in Europe, performing at such top events as the Verbier Festival, the Klavier-Festival Ruhr (Germany), and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival (Kalamazoo, Michigan). After recording the Shostakovich Preludes for the Transart Live label in 2011, he was signed to the major Mirare label and has released several albums. In 2019, he issued Révolution, an album of piano music pertaining to the French Revolution. Kadouch released another thematic album, Les musiques de Madame Bovary, on Mirare in 2022. The following year, he backed soprano Sandrine Piau on her Alpha-label recital Voyage intime. ~ James Manheim, Rovi