French pianist David Zobel is in demand internationally as an opera coach and collaborative pianist. He is regularly engaged by the Wiener Staatsoper, Théâtre du Châtelet, De Nederlandse Opera , the Stanislavsky theater, l’Opéra Français in New York, the Opéra de Tours and the Festival Lyrique de St Céré. As an accompanist he has performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Rossini Pesaro Festival.
An alumni of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, he also holds a Master of Music Degree in accompanying from The Juilliard School where he was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and was given the Sony ES award of music excellence. Mr. Zobel attended the Tanglewood Music Festival where he was awarded the CD Jackson Memorial Prize. Summer engagements at both the Merola Opera Program and at the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival followed. He has also collaborated with the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Gilmore Young Artists Festival and The Juilliard Opera Center.
David Zobel won the First Prize at the first edition of the Belvedere Competition for
Accompanists in Vienna. He has returned to the Belvedere as an accompanist for singers and also performed with singers at the Domingo Competition, Le Concours de la Ville de Paris, and Le Reine Elisabeth in Brussels.
He may be heard on the award-winning Eloquentia recording titled “The Deepest Desire” with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato.