Johan Farjot

Johan Farjot is a French pianist, conductor and music teacher.

Farjot studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Michaël Lévinas, Thierry Escaich, Claire Levacher and Zsolt Nagy and won five first prizes in the harmony theory, musical analysis, counterpoint and fugue. He then studied chamber music at the Lyon Conservatory. He teaches musicology at the Paris-Sorbonne University.

Farjot plays, partly in premiere and as dedicatee, works by contemporary composers such as Nicolas Bacri, Édith Canat de Chizy, Thierry Escaich, Karol Beffa, Sven-Ingo Koch, Marc Mellits, Péter Eötvös and Martín Matalon and performs at festivals and concerts in France and other European countries such as Germany, Italy, Belgium, Portugal and Sweden.

As a chamber musician, he performs with Jean-Guihen Queyras and Pierre-Olivier Queyras, François Salque, Karine Deshayes, Magali Léger, Lise Berthaud, Fabrice Bihan, Emmanuelle Bertrand, Olivier Patey, Yvan Chiffoleau, Geneviève Laurenceau, Antoine Pierlot, Amaury Coeytaux and Jean-Luc Votano. Since 1999 he has collaborated with violist Arnaud Thorette in a duo and in the Ensemble Contraste.[1]

Farjot appeared as a conductor with, among others, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre d’Auvergne, the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, the Ostrava Orchestra and the Orchestre de Massy and soloists such as Fanny Clamagirand, Delphine Haidan and Alain Buet. As successor to Jacques Grimbert he heads the Orchestre de Paris-Sorbonne.