Since his success at the Van Cliburn Competition in the eighties, Philippe Bianconi has had an international career and pursued his musical career, patiently ploughing his furrow far from any media hype.

He has been praised for his playing, which "always goes to the heart of the music and fills the space with life and poetry" (Washington Post ); "his lyricism and loftiness of vision...powerful playing, which makes the piano sing even in its strength and virtuosity...a colourful sound" (Le Figaro); "extraordinary musicality and technical mastery, which give the music a freshness, immediacy and strength of conviction rarely encountered" (The Times - London ).

Trained at the Nice Conservatory by Madame Delbert-Février, then in Paris under the aegis of Gaby Casadesus, Philippe Bianconi then deepened his knowledge of the German and Russian repertoires in Freiburg-im-Breisgau with Vitalij Margulis.

First Prize at the Jeunesses Musicales International Competition in Belgrade in 1977 and at the Robert Casadesus International Competition in Cleveland in 1981, he won the Silver Medal at the Van Cliburn International Competition in 1985.

His first major recital at Carnegie Hall in New York in 1987 was highly acclaimed. Since then, he has performed in the most renowned concert halls, both in America (Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Kennedy Center in Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Houston, etc.), in Europe (Wigmore Hall in London, Berlin Philharmonic, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Milan, Madrid, Hamburg, etc.), as well as in Japan, China and Australia.

Philippe Bianconi has also been invited by prestigious orchestras: Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonie, Pittsburgh Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Sydney Symphony ... under the direction of conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Georges Prêtre, Michel Plasson, James Conlon, Marek Janowski, Gennadi Roshdestvensky, David Zinman, Yakov Kreizberg, Tugan Sokhiev....

He regularly collaborates with various French orchestras: Toulouse, Strasbourg, Lyon, Lille, Nice, as well as the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Philippe Bianconi has also participated in numerous festivals: La Roque d'Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins, Piano en Valois, the Prades Festival, the Folle Journée de Nantes, the Menton Festival, the Messiaen de la Meije Festival, the Berlioz Festival and the Ravinia Festival in the United States.

Passionate about chamber music, he has had as partners Jean-Pierre Rampai, Janos Starker, Pierre Amoyal, Gary Hoffman, Tedi Papavrami, Xavier Phillips, as well as many quartets: Sine Nomine, Guarneri String Quartet, Parisii, Talich, Modigliani, Hermès.

From 1983 to 1990, Philippe Bianconi enjoyed an exceptional experience: Hermann Prey, at the peak of his immense career, enlisted the young pianist's collaboration. They gave many concerts together and recorded Schubert's three great song cycles, La Belle Meunière, Le Voyage d'Hiver and Le Chant du Cygne for Denon.

In 2012, his recording of Debussy's Preludes on the La Dolce Volta label was acclaimed by the press and the public, and earned him a nomination for the Victoires de la Musique Classique, the Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros, and a Diapason d'Or de l'Année.

His collaboration with La Dolce Volta continued with a Chopin disc in 2014 and a Schumann disc in 2016.

Two albums have just been released in September 2020. One dedicated to Debussy's Etudes has just been released, again for La Dolce Volta, the other is a recording of a concert given in 2019 at the Printemps de Arts de Monaco and contains Brahms' two piano concertos, with the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Michal Nesterowicz.

From 2013 to 2017, Philippe Bianconi was the musical director of the American Conservatory of Fontainebleau (a French institution whose mission is to make French culture better known to foreign students in the combined fields of music and architecture), succeeding Philippe Entremont and Nadia Boulanger who trained the elite of American composers such as Aaron Copland, Elliot Carter, Virgil Thomson, Astor Piazzolla, Philip Glass, or Quincy Jones.

Since October 2018, Philippe Bianconi has been teaching at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris-Alfred Cortot.

Since July 2022, he has agreed to be the patron of the Festival Les Nocturnes du Piano to help discover and promote the most talented young pianists.