Cyril Huvé

Since 2016, he has been artistic director of the Châtellerault "Automne musical" festival.

Invited in November 2013 for a recital in Tokyo Musashino, Huvé has long been the assistant of Gérard Frémy at the Conservatoire de Paris: he has contributed to the training of pianists such as Cédric Tiberghien, Ferenc Vizi, Alexandre Léger, Jérôme Ducros, Daria Fadeeva, Mara Dobrescu, Julien Lepape, Nicolas Stavy etc.

A tour in the US and South America in 2012 - Bolivia, Mexico, Chile, Brazil gave him the opportunity of a recital in homage to Claudio Arrau at Chillán, his birthplace in Chile, a visit to the municipal cemetery where he is buried, and a sharing at the Museo interactivo Claudio Arrau where the library of his scores, his objects - including his famous silent keyboard - and his personal memories are preserved.

Winner of the 2010 Victoire de la musique for his CD of works for piano by Mendelssohn on an 1840 Broadwood piano, Huvé was particularly interested in the expressive possibilities of the romantic 19th century keyboards that his masters passed on to him. A pianoforte specialist, his experience in instrument knowledge has helped to integrate the notion of historically informed interpretation into the works of a vast repertoire and the modern piano, which he approaches in the continuity of historical instruments, taking advantage of the experience they bring him and not in opposition to them.

First trained by pianist André Krust, he then joined Dominique Merlet's class at the Conservatoire de Paris, with Jeanine Vieuxtemps as assistant. He also studied classical literature in Khâgne and obtained a bachelor's degree in Philosophy at the Paris Nanterre University. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he created and produced on France Musique an interpretation archives program called the Vieilles Cires, then established the "Rencontres d’Arc-et-Senans and Cluny", where he invited flautist Marcel Moyse, and developed working and friendly relationships with musicians such as Maurice Bourgue, André Cazalet, Jean Mouillère, Gérard Caussé, Thierry Caens, the Talich Quartet, Eckart Haupt etc. with whom he has since played frequently in chamber music.

Cyril Huvé (born 9 February 1954) is a French classical pianist.