Martine Joste

Martine Joste is a French pianist.

Life

Joste studied with Yves Nat at the Conservatoire de Paris , where he received first prizes in the subjects of piano, chamber music, harmony and piano accompaniment. She completed her training in Sienna, Tanglewood and at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Paul Badura-Skoda and was then a répétiteur for four years at the Conservatoire de Paris in Irène Joachim's singing class and taught sight reading.

She then became a solo pianist with Radio France and performed as a concert pianist all over Europe, the USA, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, Uruguay, Canada and the Middle East. Contemporary music is at the center of her interest. She works regularly with the ensembles Ars Nova , Musique Vivante , Itineraire and 2e2m and played more than forty world premieres, some of which were composed for her, by Jean-Claude Risset , Alain Bancquart , Bruce Mather , Claude Ballif , Ivan Wyschnegradsky , Fernand Vandenbogaerde and others.

John Cage composed one of his last works for her and the violinist Ami Flammer in 1992, Two6 . Sylvano Bussotti dedicated his Sonatina Gioacchina to her in 1995 . In addition to compositions by the aforementioned contemporary musicians, she also recorded works by Franz Schubert , Carl Maria von Weber , ETA Hoffmann , Claude Debussy , Arnold Schoenberg and Darius Milhaud .

Joste also realized a dozen piano projects, each with a theme ("The torn piano", piano and harpsichord: yesterday and today "," Satie meets Cage ") or a composer (John Cage, Sylvano Bussotti, Tomas Marco , François-Bernard Mâche , Edgar Varèse ), teaches at the Conservatory of Blanc-Mesnil and gives international courses in contemporary piano music.

Web links

• Discography at Allmusic
• http://www.moderecords.com/profiles/martinejoste.html Biography at Mode Records