About
Laure Cholé embodies the new generation of French pianists.
She has performed at prestigious festivals such as the Festival des Lisztomanias in Châteauroux, La Vague Classique in Six-Fours, Schiermonnikoog Festival, Festival Ravel, Festival du Vexin, Les Rencontres Musicales de La Baule, Festival des Nancyphonies, Festival des Pianissimes, Festival de Torroella de Montgrí in Spain, Alba Music Festival in Italy, and in the United States in New York, Washington and Chicago with the French American Piano Society, the Festival Puplinge Classique in Geneva, the Festival Musique et Patrimoine in Vienne et Gartempe and in venues such as the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, the Salle Cortot, the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, the Musée de la Vie romantique, the Institut Liszt and the Musée Claude Debussy in Paris, the Prieuré de Chirens, the Théâtre du Casino d’Aix-les-Bains, the Théâtre Sénart, the Aula Magna Uni in Fribourg.
After winning first prize, she met György Kurtág, for whom she played some of his works at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
in Paris. She also took part in the El Primer Palau competition in Barcelona, where she won the Joventuts Musicals de Catalunya prize. She has performed in France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United States.
Her musical sensitivity and her commitment on stage are regularly praised by the press:
» The young pianist captures it with an unusual vigor and energy on a Steinway D that she makes fully sound. » ,
« An interpretation on both sides very engaged, bright, captivating from start to finish. »
“Laure Cholé, who tones and makes her piano sing generously, in a wide range of nuances. `
ResMusica (July 2025)
« The pianist has a vast emotional palette and remarkable intensity. Laure raised the spirits in poetic and poignant Brahms’ Intermezzi » Southwest (May 2025)
Born in 1999 into a family of musicians, Laure Cholé developed a deep love of music at an early age. She first studied with Janine Collet, then entered Hugues Leclère’s class at the CRR in Paris, where she received her Diplôme d’Etudes Musicales with the unanimous approval of the jury, as well as her Prix de perfectionnement with the unanimous approval of the jury.
She then trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where she works with Jonas Vitaud and Claire-Marie Le Guay and she obtains the master’s degree in 2024 and in 2022 the chamber music prize.
During various master classes, she has received advice from Bertrand Chamayou, the Modigliani Quartet, Marie Josèphe Jude, Jean Baptiste Fonlupt, Avedis Kouyoumdjian, Itamar Golan, Louis Rodde…
She is selected to join the excellence class of Shani Diluka at the Rainier III Academy in Monaco
She is actually perfecting with Bruno Rigutto at Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot de Paris.
