Born in the United States in 1970, Nicholas Angelich began studying the piano at five with his mother. At the age of seven, he gave his first concert with Mozart’s Concerto K. 467. When he was thirteen, he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris where he studied with Aldo Ciccolini, Yvonne Loriod, Michel Beroff and won the First Prize for piano and chamber music. He also worked with Marie-Françoise Bucquet.

Nicholas Angelich followed master-classes with Leon Fleisher, Dmitri Bashkirov, and Maria Joao Pires. In 1989 he won the Second Prize of the International Piano Competition R. Casadesus in Cleveland and in 1994 the First Prize of the International Piano Competition Gina Bachauer. In 1996 he was invited as a resident of the International Piano Foundation of Cadennabia (Italy). In 2002 he received the “International Klavierfestival Ruhr - Young Talent Award” (Germany) from Leon Fleischer where he performed in June 2003.

He performed with the Orchestre National de France under Marc Minkowski and Joseph Pons, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Paavo Järvi, Orchestre National de Lyon and David Robertson, Orchestre National de Bordeaux and Yutako Sado, Orchestre National de Lille and Matthias Bamert, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo under Jesus Lopez-Cobos and  Kenneth Montgomery, Orchestre de Liège and Saint-Petersbourg Symphony under Alexandre Dimitriev, Strasbourg and Montpellier orchestras under Jerzy Semkow, Toulouse Orchestra under Jaap van Zweden in Amsterdam and Yannick Nezet-Sequin in San Sebastian, Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne and Christian Zacharias, the SWR Baden-Baden orchestra and Michael Gielen, the Francfort Radio orchestra under Hugh Wolff, as well as recitals in Hanover, Munich, Geneva, Amsterdam, Brussels, Luxembourg, Rome, Lisbon, Brescia, Tokyo, Paris.

In May 2003, debut with the New-York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur at the Lincoln Center in New-York. In April 2004, Japan tour with the Orchestre National de France and Kurt Masur. He was invited by the Verbier Festival in 2003 and 2005, and by the Martha Argerich Festival in Lugano. Recently he performed with the London Philharmonic under Kazuchi Ono, in recital in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Lyon, Milano, Geneva. In 2007/08, he will play in Vienna with the Tonkünstler Orchester and K. Järvi, the Rotterdam Philharmonic (Y. Nezet-Seguin), Atlanta Symphony (E. Krivine), Gürzenich Orchester Cologne, and in chamber music in Japan with Akiko Suwanai (Tokyo, Sapporo, Osaka…) and in North America with R. and G. Capuçon (New-York, San Francisco, Québec, Montréal, Ottawa…).

Great interpreter of classic and romantic repertoire, Nicholas Angelich plays all Beethoven Sonatas and Liszt’s Années de Pélerinage in different countries (France : La Roque d’Anthéron, Toulouse, Nantes – Germany : Klavierfestival Ruhr, Bayer Leverkusen – Canada : La Lanaudière – USA : Washington – Italy: Brescia – Spain : Bilbao). He is also very interested in 20th century music such as Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Chostakovitch, Bartok, Ravel, as well as Messiaen, Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Eric Tanguy and Pierre Henry, who dedicated to him the «Concerto for piano without orchestra».

Always enthusiastic about playing chamber music, his partners are Gautier and Renaud Capuçon, Maxim Vengerov, Akiko Suwanai, Dimitri Sitkovetsky, Joshua Bell, Gérard Caussé, Alexander Kniazev, Jian Wang, Paul Meyer, the Ysaye and Prazak Quartets.