David Abramovitz, born in New York, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in musicology from Princeton University and a Master’s Degree in piano from the Manhattan School of Music. He later pursued his studies with Bruno Canino in Italy and Nadia Boulanger in Paris before settling there definitively in 1977. 　　His exceptional touch has opened the doors of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Salle Gaveau in Paris as well as radio and television stations in France. Often invited to Spain, Germany, Finland and Switzerland, he has performed as well in New York, San Francisco, Nouméa, Sydney, Wellington, and with the Ciutat de Barcelona, Ciutat de Palma de Mallorca and Zurich Opera House orchestras. His performances have been greeted by enthusiastic press notices, from Telerama (“his attention to coloring and shaping phrases and his care for the singing line”) to the New York Times (“interpretations bristling with energy and intelligence”) and La Vanguardia (“an exquisite version”). 　　A passionate lover of singing, he has accompanied the greatest singers in the world : Hans Hotter, Régine Crespin, Gérard Souzay, Rita Gorr, Mady Mesplé, Edita Gruberova, Frederica von Stade, Bernard Kruysen, Lucy Shelton… He has been equally in demand by the later generation of singers : Natalie Dessay, Laurent Naouri, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Paul Groves, Elizabeth Vidal, Claire Brua, Cécile Perrin… His musical and linguistic talents (he speaks five languages) have made him a much sought-after coach for the operas in Montpellier, Paris, Los Angeles, Nancy, as well as the Paris Opera School, the Zurich Opera Studio and the CNIPAL in Marseille. In 2006 he was music director of a new production of Claude Prey’s “Les Liaisons dangereuses” at the Metz Opera. 　　With Cathy Berberian he toured all over Europe in a program called “From Monteverdi to the Beatles”. This pleasure of the meeting of theatre and music was renewed with “Nocturne for Lovers” where he played Chopin to the George Sand of Leslie Caron at the Chichester and Melbourne Festivals, in « Schubert and his poets » at the Théâtre Molière in Paris with Gérard Theruel and Marc Chouppart, and as partner to Pierre Danais in a Proustian soirée at the Comédie des Champs-Elysées in Paris. He now participates regularly in the very “Parisian” show “L’Amour au passé défini” with the irresistible Denise Bahous. Their CD of the best-known songs of the Belle Epoque for Mandala Records, « Chansons lestes et féroces » met with great praise from the critics who cited his “inventive and poetic piano playing”. 　　Other recordings include the songs of Henri Sauguet for Sonpact Records, the complete Ravel songs for Naxos (with Laurent Naouri, Valérie Millot, Inva Mula, Claire Brua and Gérard Theruel), a Fauré recital with Claire Brua and Laurent Naouri for Sanctuary/Resonances, a Bruce Saylor song cycle for Cri and the Concerto for piano and orchestra of Joan Guinjoan with the Orquestra de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya conducted by Ernest Martinez-Izquierdo for Harmonia Mundi. The same orchestra re-invited him to perform during the 2005-06 season in a Fauré program. In the spring of 2006 he performed in Tokyo with Hiromi Omura, at the Louvre with Paul Groves and Laurent Naouri and at Radio France with Anna Caterina Antonacci. 　　During the last few seasons David Abramovitz was on tour in Japan with the countertenor Dominique Visse, gave a recital at the Fondation Heinrich Heine in Paris, participated in a concert-homage to the philosopher and composer Paul Natorp in Berlin in the company of his great-grandchildren. 　　He was also the pillar of an important benefit concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in March 2009 for breast cancer research along with Felicity Lott, Rosemary Joshua, Violeta Urmana, Stefano Secco, Sandrine Piau, Joyce DiDonato, Laurent Naouri, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Olivier Lallouette, Salome Haller, Sylvie Valayre, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Alfredo Nirgro, Mirelle Delunsch and the Trio Wanderer. Following this concert he recorded an album of songs by Tosti with Stefano Secco which will be released by Naxos in the spring of 2011, and participated in the concert celebrating Maria Malibran with Anna Kasyan, Jean-Marc Phillips and Eve Ruggiéri at the Antibes Festival. 　　In 2010 he performed with Laurent Naouri at the Musée d’Orsay and gave a series of solo recitals (in a program of waltzes) in Vichy, Paris and León.