Emmanuel Pahud

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Emmanuel Pahud (* 27. January 1970 in Geneva ) is a from the French-speaking Switzerland originating flutist .

Life

Pahud started playing the flute at the age of six. He was trained in Rome , Brussels and Paris . In 1990 he completed his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris in order to continue his studies with Aurèle Nicolet . He won first prizes at the international competitions in Duino (1988), Kobe (1989) and Geneva (1992). In addition to other prizes, he was also awarded by the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation.

Emmanuel Pahud initially worked as principal flutist with the Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic under Sergiu Celibidache , before becoming the youngest member of the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado at the age of 22 . After a brief hiatus, he has been a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker again since 2002, initially under Sir Simon Rattle and since August 2019 under Kirill Petrenko .

In addition to his orchestral work, Emmanuel Pahud is a regular guest as a soloist at major international festivals and performs with renowned orchestras under prominent conductors. He also goes on tour regularly as a chamber musician; His partners include Yefim Bronfman , Hélène Grimaud and Stephen Kovacevich . With the pianist Éric Le Sage and the clarinetist Paul Meyer , he founded the six-member ensemble “Les Vents Français” and together with them founded the chamber music festival “Musique à l'Emperi” in 1993, which in 2012 celebrated its 20th anniversary. In 2014 and 2015, Emmanuel Pahud was again awarded the ECHO Klassik as flautist of the year.

Emmanuel Pahud's repertoire ranges from baroque music to jazz and modern times, including world premieres by Elliott Carter and Luca Lombardi .

Discographic notes

Since 1996 Pahud has been with the record company EMI , today Warner Classics , under contract. His recordings include a CD of Mozart's Concerts (including the Concerto for Flute and Harp with Marie Pierre Langlamet ) with the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado; also “Paris” (a CD with flute music of the 20th century with works by Francis Poulenc , Darius Milhaud , Pierre Sancan , André Jolivet , Henri Dutilleux and Olivier Messiaen ), recordings of Mozart's flute quartets, concerts by Georg Philipp Telemann , a recording with Works by Johann Sebastian Bach , the concerts by Aram Chatschaturjan and Jacques Ibert with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra under David Zinman , a CD with the sonata by Sergei Prokofiev and music by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel , Sofia Gubaidulina's music for flute, strings and percussion with the London Symphony Orchestra under Mstislaw Leopoldowitsch Rostropowitsch .

Also worth mentioning are recordings of sonatas (partly arranged for flute) by César Franck , Richard Strauss and Charles-Marie Widor , as well as French chamber music under the title French Connection , flute concerts by Antonio Vivaldi with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Into the Blue (a jazz Album with Jacky Terrasson , which was nominated for a Grammy Award ) and sonatas by Brahms and Reinecke with Yefim Bronfman. In 2008 Johann Sebastian Bach's flute sonatas were recorded with Trevor Pinnock . In 2010 a CD titled Fantasy was released. A Night at the Opera with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin . His CD Revolution was released in March 2015 with flute concerts by Parisian contemporaries of the French Revolution , including François Devienne , Christoph Willibald Gluck and Ignaz Pleyel .

In 2016 he released an album with flute concertos by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach on Warner Classics, in 2018 the album "Solo", in 2019 "Dreamtime".

Awards

  • 1998: ECHO Klassik in the “Concert Recording of the Year” category for Flute Concerts 1 & 2 (WA Mozart) with the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado
  • 2001: ECHO Klassik in the category "Instrumentalist of the year (flute)" for orchestral suite No. 2 (JS Bach)
  • 2003: ECHO Klassik in the category "Instrumentalist of the year (flute)" for flute concerts (GP Telemann)
  • 2005: ECHO Klassik in the category “Instrumentalist of the Year (Flute)” for Franck, Widor, Strauss - Flute Sonatas
  • 2009: ECHO Klassik in the category “Instrumentalist of the Year (Flute)” for Johann Sebastian Bach, The Flute Sonatas
  • 2014: ECHO Klassik in the category “Instrumentalist of the Year (Flute)” for French Music for winds
  • 2015: ECHO Klassik in the “Concert Recording of the Year” category for Revolution with the Basel Chamber Orchestra under Giovanni Antonini

literature

  • Berliner Philharmoniker: Variations with Orchestra - 125 Years of the Berliner Philharmoniker , Volume 2, Biographies and Concerts, Verlag Henschel, May 2007, ISBN 978-3-89487-568-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart positions Germany
  2. ↑ Chamber music festival "Musique à l'Emperi"
  3. ↑ Echoklassik.de Klassik Prize Winner 2014 ( Memento from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 26, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Pahud, Emmanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss flautist
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva , Switzerland