Jonas Vitaud

Pianist Jonas Vitaud is adventurous and versatile, playing mainstream repertory and also working closely with contemporary composers. He is also a noted educator. Vitaud was born in Paris on May 7, 1980. He started piano lessons at six, but, as he told Piano Bleu, "I discovered music before the instrument, through listening to Handel's Water Music and Royal Fireworks Music." His first teacher was not a pianist, but violinist Andrew Sherwood. When Vitaud enrolled at a local conservatory, "It was a cold shower... Everything was compartmentalized, systematized," but classes at t...