Monique Duphil Releases CD, and Performs and Teaches Throughout the World
	RELATED back to the main story		ABOUT THE ARTIST Monique Duphil, pianist At the age of ten, Monique Duphil entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris and studied under Jean Doyen, Marguerite Long and Joseph Calvet. Having won the First Prize in piano at 15, she graduated the following year with the Grand Prize in Professional Chamber Music. Later studies were with Harriet Serr and Vladimir Horbowski. A Paris debut with orchestra at age 15, performing Mendelssohn's G minor piano concerto, followed by prizes in four international competitions including the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, launched her career. Appearing in more than 2000 concerts throughout the world, she has performed recitals, chamber music and concerti with orchestras in Western and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Korea, Japan, China, India, New Zealand, Australia, North Africa, the United States, and every country in South America. The duo she formed in 1976 with her husband, Jay Humeston, who formerly the Hong Kong Philharmonic's principal cellist, has been highly successful in America, Europe and throughout Asia. In recognition of her spectacular debut in the United States with the Philadelphia Orchestra, substituting on a few hours notice for cellist M. Rostropovich, Duphil was honored to be re-engaged by Eugene Ormandy to appear with him four times, performing two concerti on each occasion. Invited to Bern by Charles Dutoit, she recorded in live performance the Ginastera piano concerto no. 1 for Swiss radio. The Cleveland Orchestra chose her to premiere the Roger Sessions Piano Concerto in 1985. Others among the numerous symphony orchestras, Duphil has performed with the Quebec, Warsaw, Bern, Munich, Lamoureux, Paris, Caracas, Mexico, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, Seoul, Tokyo Metropolitan, Sydney, Sapporo, Taipei, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore, under the direction of Ormandy, Markevich, Shostakovich, Smetacek, Wislocki, Akiyama, Fukumura, Sir Alexander Gibson, Peter Maag, Charles Dutoit, Thomas Sanderling, Gerard Schwarz, Eduardo Mata, and a host of others. Praised by Hong Kong's press as "possibly Asia's finest pianist," Duphil was invited by the Shanghai Symphony to be their soloist at the second China International Arts Festival in Beijing. As a distinguished chamber musician, Duphil has partnered many renowned artists including Henryk Szerying, Ruggiero Ricci, Karl Leister, Pierre Fournier, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Cho-Liang Lin, the Vienna String Quartet, the Musikverein Quartet, and the Salzburg Mozarteum Trio. Presently she is a pianist with the "Trio Villa-Lobos" and the "Amici Trio" with flautist Michel Debost and cellist Jay Humeston. Duphil was on the faculty of the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts and Senior Lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist College prior to her current appointment as professor of pianoforte at the Oberlin Conservatory. She has recorded for Polydor, Avila, Telefunken, Naxos, Marco Polo and Eclectra.
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