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Victor Emanuel Dijon von Monteton, the scion of an
ancient family of French counts, was born in 1984
and began taking piano lessons at the age of three
and a half. He began to attract the attention of the
public and the media with his very first recitals.
Among his teachers were Jiri Malat in Prague, Peter
Eicher in Mannheim, Jonna Panula in Helsinki and
Olga Rissin-Morenova at the Musikhochschule in
Karlsruhe, where he graduated summa cum laude in
February 2004.
Monteton soon left the "wunderkind" status behind
him and ranks today among the
most clearly profiled and versatile musicians of his
generation. Both his unique sensitivity and his
ability to penetrate a work's most profound secrets
inform his interpretations of classical and romantic
piano literature. Among the many orchestras and
ensembles he has performed with most recently are
the Prague and St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestras,
the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, the Berlin
Kammerphilharmonie, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Charleston
Symphony Orchestra. In 1998 EMI released his debut
CD featuring works by Mozart, and in 2002 BMG
Classics issued a highly noted recording of Monteton
playing the Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 5
with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields under
Sir Neville Marriner.
In November 2001, Monteton made his conducting debut
with the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester. This was
followed by a number of appearances and concert
tours through Germany and the U.S., during which he
conducted works by Mozart and Beethoven from the
piano. His extraordinary accomplishments have
already won him several awards, including the
European cultural award "Prix de l'Espoir d'Europe"
in 1999, the Advancement Prize of the European
Cultural and Economic Community Pro Europa in 2003,
and the Kulturpreis Baden in 2004. The European
Cultural Prize will be conferred to him in September
2004 at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main.
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