Pianist Célimène Daudet, born of both French and Haitian heritage, is a soloist whose playing and artistic commitment are acclaimed by audiences and the international press. She performs all over the world and has recently made her debut at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, and the Philharmonie de Paris.

She also appears at major French festivals (La Folle Journée in Nantes, Festival Variations, Printemps des Arts in Monte Carlo, Piano aux Jacobins, Piano en Valois, Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival...). She is a regular guest on radio programs (Radio Classique, France Musique, France Inter, France Culture, Fip) and on television.

Her recordings, ranging from Bach to Messiaen (released on Arion and later NoMadMusic), have been carefully crafted and unanimously praised by critics: A Tribute to Bach, Bach’s The Art of Fugue, Dans la malle du Poilu (works centered around the First World War), Beethoven’s violin and piano sonatas with Amanda Favier, Debussy and Messiaen’s Preludes, Messe Noire dedicated to Liszt and Scriabin. Her 2021 album Haïti mon amour (NoMadMusic), devoted to previously unrecorded Haitian repertoire, reached the top of the sales charts at Fnac and received 5 stars in Classica, 5 Diapasons, and ffff in Télérama. It also generated significant attention, including a two-page article in Le Devoir and a portrait feature in L'Obs. In 2022, she released a new album entitled Alter Ego, juxtaposing works by Federico Mompou and Frédéric Chopin.

Her repertoire also includes the premieres of several works written for her. Recently, she performed Nombres by Benoît Menut and Anima-Alias — which incorporates live computer processing and a breath sensor — composed by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi. In 2021, she premiered a piano concerto by Christian Rivet. Additionally, she collaborated for several years with choreographer Yoann Bourgeois, with whom she performed Bach’s Art of Fugue on stage over a hundred times. In April 2023, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Célimène gave the French premiere of the piano concerto Baron Lacroix by Haitian composer Carmen Brouard, accompanied by the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris.

She is the founder of the Haïti Piano Project, launched in 2017, whose goal was to bring a concert piano to Haiti and establish the country’s first international piano festival, of which she is now the artistic director. This initiative has received wide international media coverage.

Trained at the national conservatories of music and dance in Lyon and Paris, and later at the Banff Centre in Canada, she is the winner of the International Pro Musicis Prize and has been named a Spedidam Generation Artist. She has received support from the Safran Foundation for Music, and her career has been recognized with the French Senate Medal. Since 2018, Célimène has been named a Young Leader

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