Thibaudet has performed with most of the world's leading orchestras including the
Berlin Philharmonic,
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,
London Symphony Orchestra,
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig,
Orchestre de Paris,
New York Philharmonic,
Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
Cleveland Orchestra and the
Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has also appeared in the major concert halls of Europe, North America and Asia. In 2010, he was inducted into the
Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame. Thibaudet also holds the honor of being the first ever Artist-in-Residence at the
Boston Symphony Orchestra,
Seattle Symphony Orchestra and the
Colburn School in
Los Angeles. Among Thibaudet’s collaborators in performances and recordings are soprano
Renée Fleming; mezzo-sopranos
Cecilia Bartoli and
Angelika Kirchschlager; violist
Yuri Bashmet; violinists
Joshua Bell,
Midori,
Lisa Batiashvili,
Janine Jansen and
Julia Fischer; cellists
Truls Mørk,
Daniel Müller-Schott, and
Gautier Capuçon; and the Rossetti String Quartet. He also commissioned a piano concerto from
James MacMillan, which he premiered with the
Minnesota Orchestra in 2011. Notably, Thibaudet's recording of
Liszt drew rare praise from the great
Vladimir Horowitz, who remarked, “It was amazing, such dexterity, such technique, such articulation, such command.”
Recordings Thibaudet has made more than 50 recordings, most for the British label
Decca Records. He made a box set of
Erik Satie's complete works for solo piano, released on the composer's 150th birthday. Thibaudet is well known for his interpretations of French classical music but has also made forays into the world of jazz, playing arrangements and transcriptions of improvisations on the CDs
Conversations with Bill Evans (1997) and
Reflections on Duke (1999). Thibaudet is also known for his recordings of opera transcriptions. In 1993, he recorded arrangements of extracts from operas by
Franz Liszt and
Ferruccio Busoni. In 2007, Thibaudet released a CD entitled
Aria: Opera Without Words, in which he selected several of his favorite arias and overtures, including some of his own transcriptions and those of
Yvar Mikhashoff. He has since recorded a disc of Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 5 by
Camille Saint-Saëns (with
Charles Dutoit and the
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, released in October 2007), and a disc of
Gershwin works for piano and orchestra in
Grofé's arrangements (released March 2010). Thibaudet’s playing can be heard on the movie soundtracks of
The French Dispatch,
The Portrait of a Lady,
Pride & Prejudice,
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,
Wakefield, and
Atonement, the last of which earned an
Academy Award for Best Original Score. ==Personal life==