Born in Auvergne in 1998, Virgile Roche is one of the most versatile young pianists on the European scene today. After beginning his musical studies at the conservatoires of Clermont-Ferrand and Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, he was admitted at the age of 17 to the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris (CNSMDP), where he won 7 prizes: piano (classes with Emmanuel Strosser and Cécile Hugonnard-Roche, then Marie-Josèphe Jude and Jonas Vitaud), chamber music (with François Salque), accompaniment (with Reiko Hozu), harmony (with Fabien Waksman), counterpoint (with François Saint-Yves), 20th and 21st century composition (with Thomas Lacôte), and orchestration (with Marc-André Dalbavie). He also studied in Geneva with Nelson Goerner, and since 2022 has been artist-in-residence at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth (Belgium), in the class of Frank Braley and Avedis Kouyoumdjian.

He has had the opportunity to work in masterclasses with renowned pianists and teachers such as Bernard d'Ascoli, Michel Dalberto, Bertrand Chamayou, Michel Béroff, Jean-François Heisser, François Dumont, Florent Boffard, Denis Pascal, Claire Désert and Pascal Devoyon, but also with many leading chamber musicians such as Hatto Beyerle, Johannes Meissl, Patrick Jüdt, Corina Belcea, Miguel Da Silva, Günter Pichler, Irvine Arditti, Antonio Meneses, members of the Talich, Ébène, Ysaÿe, Meta4, Modigliani and Diotima quartets, and the Trio Wanderer...

A prizewinner at several international competitions (quarter-finalist at the Gina Bachauer Competition in Salt Lake City in 2024 and the Dublin Competition in 2022, winner of the prestigious Safran Foundation Prize for Music in 2020, 2nd prize and three special prizes at the Piano Campus International Competition in 2020, 2nd prize at the Brest International Piano Competition in 2018, etc.), he is also a laureate of the Banque Populaire, Royaumont, Singer-Polignac and Peters foundations. ), he is also a laureate of the Banque Populaire, Royaumont, Singer-Polignac and Peters foundations, supported by the Mécénat Musical Société Générale, and by the Nguyen Thien Dao fund.

While he performs regularly in recital and concerto, most recently with the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, the Orchestre de Chambre de Liège, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Bacău and the Orchestra giovanile Filarmonici Friulani, he is also very interested in chamber music, both with string players and with wind and percussion. He was a member of Trio Pantoum from its foundation in 2016 to 2023, with which he won many important international prizes (Trio di Trieste, Haydn Wien, ARD Munich, Osaka, Melbourne, Lyon, Weimar, FNAPEC in Paris...).

In parallel, Virgile has shared the stage with instrumentalists and singers such as Michel Dalberto, Tatiana Samouil, Pierre Fouchenneret, Éléonore Pancrazi, Paul Zientara, Aleksandra Dzenisenia, Ann Lepage, Thaïs Raï-Westphal, João Pedro Gonçalves, Michael Song, Seongyoung Yun, the Métamorphoses, Yako and Nerida quartets, as well as dancers such as Benjamin Millepied. Very interested in Lieder and French mélodie, he is currently perfecting his vocal accompaniment skills in Anne Le Bozec's class at the CNSMDP.

Particularly sensitive to modern and contemporary repertoires, especially since his time in Thomas Lacôte's 20th and 21st century writing class at the CNSMDP, Virgile Roche enthusiastically defends works by composers as varied as Ligeti, Berio, Crumb, Dutilleux, Messiaen, Carter, Takemitsu, Henze, Srnka, Sciarrino, Scelsi, Varèse and Feldman, as well as Hindemith, Berg, Stravinsky, Bartók, Weinberg, Antheil, Ghedini, Copland and Schoenberg.

He's regularly invited by prestigious festivals in France (Festival des Arcs, Festival Européen Jeunes Talents, Festival 1000 Sources et Dordogne, Festival Nice Classic Live, Festival Baroque de Pontoise, Festival de la Chaise-Dieu, Festival International de Piano de la Roque d'Anthéron, Festival Piano au Musée Würth, Festival Piano Campus, La Belle Saison... ) and in Europe (Ghent Flanders Festival, Bologna Festival, Trondheim Chamber Music Festival, Kalkalpen Kammermusik Festival Großraming, Spoleto Festival, Brussels Musicorum Festival, Wonderfeel Festival in the Netherlands... ), he has performed in some of Europe's finest halls (Philharmonie, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord and Salle Cortot in Paris, Opéra and Salle Molière in Lyon, Prinzregententheater in Munich, Cappella Paolina del Quirinale in Rome, Salle Franz Liszt in Geneva, MuTh and Joseph Haydn Saal in Vienna, Frimurerlogen in Trondheim, Flagey in Brussels, MIRY in Ghent... but also at the Izumi Hall in Osaka, the Melbourne Recital Centre, the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City...). He has been broadcast live by media such as BR-Klassik, ABC Classic, the Violin Channel, Rai 3, NPO Klassiek, Ö1, France Musique, SBS French... and has appeared in numerous journals: the Strad, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Archi Magazine, ClassikON, Diapason, Limelight, Télérama, ResMusica, The Utah Review...

In 2024, he has been invited to give concerts in France, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy and the United Arab Emirates... Next winter, he will record his first two CDs: one devoted to sonatas for cello and piano by Rachmaninov and Croatian composer Dora Pejačević (with cellist Jean-Baptiste Maizières), the other to Fauré's second piano quartet (with Júlia Pusker, Miguel Da Silva and Alexander Warenberg).