Cédric Tiberghien studied at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse of Paris with Frédéric Aguessy and Gérard Frémy and received the first prize in 1992 at seventeen years old. Later, he was laureate of numerous great international competitions (Brême, Dublin, Tel Aviv, Geneva, Milan, Paris). His first prize at the Long-Thibaud competition in 1998 launched his international carrier with more than a hundred and fifty contracts in the entire world.
Since then, his carrier has kept on developing, with performances in the greatest concert halls of the world: Frick Collection in New York, Musikverein in Vienna, Wigmore Hall and Barbican Hall in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, City Hall of Sydney, Salle Pleyel, Châtelet and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. He was also invited to many international festivals such as Beethovenfest Bonn, Edimbourg, City of London, BBC Proms, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Yokohama, La Roque d’Anthéron and Piano aux Jacobins.
He played with numerous international orchestras such as the BBC Symphony, the Sydney Symphony, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Stuttgart Staatsorchester, the BBC Scottish Symphony, the philharmonic orchestras of the BBC, of Israel, of Tokyo, of Japan, of Hamburg, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre national de France and The Orchestre philharmonique de Radio-France under the direction of Jiri Belohlavek, late Mstislav Rostropovitch, Myung-Whun Chung, Christoph Eschenbach, Kurt Masur, Ivan Fischer, Simone Young, Ingo Metzmacher, Leif Segerstam, Louis Langrée, Jerzy Semkov.
He regularly plays chamber music in festivals in Lockenhaus (Austria), Valloires (France), Musica Viva (Australia) and City of London (UK) with Alina Ibragimova, Marie Hallynck, Valérie Aimard, Pierre Amoyal, the Psophos quartet, the Ysaÿe quartet, the Moraguès quintet, Alain Planès, Nicholas Angelich, Marie Devellereau and Gweneth-Ann Jeffers.
He recorded two discs of chamber music at Lyrinx with violinist Amanda Favier and cellist Valérie Aimard; works for cello by Debussy, Bacri and Britten with Marie Hallynck at Fuga Libera; a record with violist Pierre Lernet at Intergral classic; variations of Beethoven, Brahms’ Hungarian Dances, some of Bach’s Partitas, Chopin’s and Brahms’ Ballades at Harmonia Mundi; as well as Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Jiri Belohlavek’s direction; and at Hyperion the totality of Ravel’s, Szymanowski’s and Schubert’s pieces for violin and piano with Alina Ibragimova and Dubois’ concertos for piano.
