Ismaël Margain

Born in 1992 in Sarlat, pianist Ismaël Margain studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Nicholas Angelich, Roger Muraro, and Michel Dalberto, later working under the guidance of Maria João Pires. A prize-winner at the 2012 Long-Thibaud Competition and nominated at the Victoires de la Musique Classique, he now performs across Europe and the Americas. Equally at home as a soloist and chamber musician, he appears at major festivals including Deauville, Piano aux Jacobins, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, alongside artists such as Renaud Capuçon and Edgar Moreau. A laureate of the Fondation Banque Populaire and the Fondation Singer-Polignac, he records for Naïve, with recent albums devoted to Chopin, Fauré, and Mozart (Fantasy, 2024).