Antoine Françoise

Biography

Trained at the Conservatoire de Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and the Royal College of Music in London, Antoine Françoise is a Franco-Swiss pianist and composer. He performs internationally in the fields of classical, contemporary and experimental music. Fascinated by the music of our time and working with living composers, he worked for a long time in London with the London Contemporary Orchestra, where he collaborated with Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood on stage and film music. He has also performed on several occasions with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta. In Switzerland, where he currently resides, he is pianist with the Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain NEC and the Ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva, as well as with the piano duo Antoine, Françoise, Gilles et Grimaitre. He has also been artistic director and programmer of the NEC since 2016 until 2023, as well as artistic collaborator at the Les Amplitudes festival. He is artistic director of the Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain (La Chaux-de-Fonds), pianist with the Ensemble Contrechamps (Geneva) and the London Contemporary Orchestra, and also plays with the London Sinfonietta, the Aurora Orchestra (London) and Ensemble Nikel