French pianist Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt will give a recital Saturday.

    Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris with Bruno Rigutto and Georges Pludermacher and at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Michael Endres. He also took lessons with Elisso Wirssaladze at the Moscow State Conservatoire.

    At the age of 14 he played Mendelssohn’s “First Piano Concerto” with the Orchestre Colonne at the Maison de la Radio in Paris, and performed the same year as a soloist at the Theater des Champs-Elysees for a tribute to the Steinway Concert Piano No. 500,000. He has since performed in Germany (the Konzerthaus in Berlin with the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester), Austria (the Konzerthaus in Vienna), London (the Church of St-Martin-in-the-Fields), Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Russia and Romania (with the Sibiu Philharmonic Orchestra).

    In 2010 he was invited as a soloist to Caracas (Venezuela) for the world premiere of the Anamorphoses for piano and orchestra by French composer Joseph-Francois Kremer with the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra conducted by Christian Vasquez, an event for which the Mezzo channel produced a documentary.

    Time: 8 p.m., June 11

    Tickets: 50-280 yuan

    Venue: Shenzhen Grand Theater, 5018 Shennan Road East, Luohu District (罗湖区深南东路5018号深圳大剧院)

    Metro: Luobao or Shekou Line, Grand Theater Station (大剧院站), Exit B(SD News)