Pianist Guillaume Bellom has enjoyed an atypical career, pursuing studies in both the violin and the piano, firstly at the Conservatory in his hometown of Besançon before moving to the Paris Conservatoire. While in the French capital, he decided to focus on the piano, inspired by such striking personalities as Nicholas Angelich and Hortense Cartier-Bresson. He was a finalist and the winner of the ‘Modern Times’ prize for best performance of contemporary music at the 2015 Clara Haskil Competition. The same year, he won first prize at the Épinal International Competition, followed by the Thierry Scherz prize at the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad in 2016. In 2017 he was nominated in the instrumental soloist revelations category at the Victoires de la Musique.
Guillaume Bellom is an associate artist at the Singer-Polignac Foundation in Paris. He appears regularly at leading festivals and concert halls, including the Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron, the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Shanghai Concert Hall, the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, the Greek National Opera and the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, working with conductors and musicians such as Christian Zacharias, Marziena Dakun, Renaud Capuçon, Paul Meyer, Victor Julien-Laferrière.
His discography includes two albums dedicated to four-hand pieces by Schubert, awarded by the prestigious ffff by French magazine Télérama, and by Mozart, which he recorded with Ismaël Margain for Aparté. He also recorded a CD of cello sonatas by Strauss, Mendelssohn and Schubert in 2017 with cellist Yan Levionnois, which was released by Fondamenta and awarded a ffff by Télérama, as well as a solo CD the same year featuring works by Schubert, Haydn and Debussy on the Claves label.
