Guillaume Bellom has had one of the most unusual careers of his generation, studying violin alongside piano, from the Besançon Conservatory to the Paris Conservatoire. It was through contact with influential musical figures such as Nicholas Angelich and Hortense Cartier-Bresson that he fully developed his career as a pianist.
A finalist and winner of the ‘Modern Times’ prize for the best interpretation of a contemporary piece at the Clara Haskil competition in 2015, he made his mark at this event dedicated to the Romanian pianist, herself a violinist in her spare time. In the same year, he won first prize at the Épinal International Competition and became a laureate of the L'Or du Rhin Foundation, before winning the Thierry Scherz Prize at the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad the following year. He came to the attention of the general public at the 2017 Victoires de la Musique awards, where he was nominated in the ‘instrumental soloist revelation’ category. He has been in residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation as an associate artist since 2018.
He has performed as a soloist with the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre National d'Ile de France, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Orchestre National de Montpellier and the Orchestre National de Lorraine, under the baton of Jacques Mercier, Christian Zacharias, Pierre Dumoussaud and Marzena Diakun. He performs regularly at the Festival de Pâques d'Aix-en-Provence, the Festival International de Piano de la Roque d'Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins, the Festival Chopin de Nohant, the Festivals de Pâques and l'Août Musical de Deauville, the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, the Salzburger Festspiele, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the Radio France Auditorium, the Athens Opera House, the Shanghai Concert Hall, the Library of Congress in Washington, and the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, with artists such as Renaud Capuçon, Paul Meyer, Yan Levionnois, Victor Julien-Laferrière, Ismaël Margain, Anna Göckel, Adrien Bellom, and the Hermès, Girard, and Hanson quartets.
His discography includes two albums dedicated to works for four hands by Schubert (awarded ‘ffff’ by Télérama) and Mozart, recorded with Ismaël Margain for the Aparté label, a sonata disc with cellist Yan Levionnois, released in 2017 for Fondamenta (‘ffff’ Télérama), a solo disc released by Claves the same year, devoted to Schubert, Haydn and Debussy, and a live disc with the Girard Quartet devoted to the chamber music of Saint-Saëns for B Records in 2019.