The pianist Dominic Chamot was born in Cologne in 1995. Award-winning and celebrated by audiences, his lively and highly multifaceted activity as a soloist and chamber musician has long since ceased to be an insider's tip.
Despite his young age, he has already won more than two dozen prizes and awards, making him one of the most successful pianists of his generation.
Most recently, Chamot attracted Europe-wide attention in 2019 with two first prizes and a second prize at international piano competitions in Germany, Italy and Spain.
This was followed in 2020 by his short-term stand-in for Hélène Grimaud, prompting praise from the press and propelling him into the international spotlight. Since then, he can be heard regularly on the world's great stages.
But already as a youngster he made a career as a "young talent": at the age of only 12 he was accepted at the Pre-College-Cologne of the HfMT Cologne in the class of Prof. Sheila Arnold, who gave him decisive musical impulses.
International prizes soon followed in Berlin, Zwickau, Enschede, Weimar, Cologne, etc. and concerts in halls such as the Berlin and Cologne Philharmonic, the Vienna Musikverein and others.
Chamot, however, chose to initially escape the hustle and bustle of concertizing to study with the renowned pedagogue Claudio Martinez-Mehner in Basel to refine his playing.
He completed both his Bachelor's and Master's degree (Specialized Performance - Soloist) with highest marks and distinction.
During this time, his reputation as a versatile artist developed, which led him to ever-growing engagements in a wide variety of fields.
Most recently, in 2018, he played several times at the Berlin Philharmonie, was able to win some of the most exclusive scholarships in Switzerland, and was invited by the WDR Symphony Orchestra to perform as a soloist at the Cologne Philharmonie. These successes were immediately followed by further invitations from orchestras throughout Germany. In New York, he thrilled audiences with his performance at Steinway Hall as part of the "Classical Bridge Festival".
He is also much in demand as a chamber musician and accompanist: he is regularly invited to chamber music festivals, worked as a répétiteur for the Theater Basel during his studies, and was even employed as a music-making actor for two productions.
Dominic Chamot was a scholarship holder of the "Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung" and the "Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben" from 2011 to 2014. Currently he is the recipient of the Migros Culture Percentage Study Award and in 2020 he was selected for the Lieven Piano Foundation Scholarship.
Pianist and critic Hannes Sonntag describes him thus: Dominic Chamot creates that lasting emotional experience for which alone we ultimately make or listen to music!