French pianist Philippe Bianconi returns to the Sunset Center with the Monterey Symphony. Bianconi was awarded the Silver Medal in the Seventh Van Cliburn International Competition and made his acclaimed recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 1987. Since then, he has appeared as a soloist with leading orchestras, including those of Los Angeles, Cleveland, Baltimore, Atlanta, Dallas, and Montreal, and has performed at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony under James Conlon.

In Europe, Bianconi appears regularly with many orchestras, including, the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, Berlin Radio Symphony, Netherlands Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, and Prague Symphony Orchestra.

An active and acclaimed recitalist, Philippe Bianconi has performed around the world, including at Carnegie Hall, at the Wigmore Hall in London, for the Berlin Philharmonic, and in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Hamburg, Milan, Madrid, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Sydney.