Why the festival?

"Demain Virtuoses / Gourdon Fonds" has launched a new piano festival aimed primarily at young people, for five good reasons:

• To give young musicians emerging from the great French institutions the opportunity to perform in public. Particularly talented young pianists who have been influenced by Alfred Cortot, Edwin Fischer and Thierry de Brunhoff...
• To introduce today's schoolchildren to classical music through masterly piano improvisations based on their suggestions (images, emotions).
• Enable young people from neighbouring conservatoires to take part in a free masterclass given by a great name in piano playing.
• To programme some of France's finest musicians.
  
  

And for local audiences:

• Enjoy hours of musical listening in a venue with unrivalled acoustics - rare moments that only classical music can provide.... Prices remain deliberately modest.