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Variously described as a "prodigy", a "badass virtuoso", and a classical music "sex symbol", Jean
Rondeau began playing harpsichord at age six having first heard the instrument on the radio and declaring to his parents "I really want to make that sound". He spent a decade studying under
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on the Erato label in 2015 and, in June of that year, Rondeau performed at the
Embassy of France in Washington, D.C., in an engagement declared by press to be "the most auspicious Washington debut of the season". In 2016 his second solo album,
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Rondeau won Young
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