Born in France, the very young Michel Beroff began his studies at the Conservatoire de Nancy, before moving on to the famous Paris Conservatoire at 14 rue de Madrid, where he won first prize. He made his Paris debut as a soloist to great acclaim, and went on to win first prize in the Olivier Messiaen International Piano Competition. Michel Beroff became one of the most renowned pianists on the piano planet, performing works by Messiaen, Beethoven, Brahms, Bartok, Prokofiev, Mozart, Debussy, Moussorgski, Stravinsky, Schumann and Schubert. He has performed worldwide with world-renowned conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Dorati, Charles Dutoit, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, Andre Previn, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yutaka Sado, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Georg Solti and Tennstedt. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has worked with such artists as Pierre Amoyal, Jean-Philippe Collard, Augustin Dumay, Barbara Hendricks and Lynn Harrell. Michel Beroff has also studied the art of conducting and the piano repertoire for the left hand.

In Europe, he performed Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 2 with Pierre Boulez and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Boulez Festival in London and Paris. Michel Beroff performed Prokofiev's Concerto No. 3 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra on a major tour of England and Spain. 3. Michel Béroff was invited by the Orchestre National de France for concerts in Paris and Athens under Yutaka Sado (Prokofiev Concerto No. 3), and recently performed Prokofiev Concertos Nos. 1 and 4 with the Orchestre de Paris under Christoph Eschenbach. In the USA, Michel Béroff opens the New York Philharmonic season with the Stravinsky Cappricio conducted by Kurt Masur, and in Asia, after highly successful tours of Japan with orchestras such as the English Philharmonia (conducted by E. P. Salonen), the NHK Symphony, the Japan Shinsei Symphony Orchestra, the New Japan Phillharmonic and the Osaka Philharmonic.

His discography includes recordings of the complete works for piano and orchestra by Prokofiev with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Kurt Masur for EMI, Stravinsky and Liszt, and other works by Messiaen, Schumann, Brahms and Debussy. He recorded Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand with the London Symphony Orchestra and Claudio Abbado for Deutsche Grammophone. Michel Beroff has taught for over 30 years at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, training students who are currently pursuing a brilliant career. He is also an eminent member of the jury of the great international competitions: Tchaikovsky, Van Cliburn, Leeds, Long-Thibault, Rubinstein, Hamamatsu, Clara Haskil, Shanghai, Santander Paloma O'Shea, Geneva and Kiev. To mark his birthday, Warner Erato is releasing a voluminous 42-CD boxed set, the sum total of an exceptional career, the most extensive in terms of repertoire and concerts ever undertaken by a French pianist.