Michel Béroff

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Michel Béroff (born May 9, 1950 in Épinal ) is a French classical pianist and conductor .

Life

Michel Béroff first studied at the Conservatoire de Nancy , then later at the Conservatoire de Paris with Yvonne Loriod and Pierre Sancan . In 1967 he won first prize at the Olivier Messiaen International Piano Competition in Royan .

After graduating in 1966, he gained a reputation as an interpreter of the music of the contemporary French composer Olivier Messiaen , but also of Claude Debussy , Béla Bartók and Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew as well as Ludwig van Beethoven and "because of his talent for rhythm and musical coloring" Johannes Brahms . "He (s) plays chamber music with Augustin Dumay and Pierre Amoyal ."

A “progressive paralysis of his right hand” forced him from 1987 to only perform pieces for the left hand. The composer Franz Hummel had written a piano piece for "two left hands" for pianists Michel Béroff and Leon Fleisher, who suffered from paralysis of the right hand , which was to be performed in 1990 at the Frankfurt Opera. During this time, Béroff turned to conducting. After four years of rehabilitation he gave recitals again and devoted himself to chamber music.

In 1988 he became professor of piano music at Indiana University Bloomington , and a year later he switched to teaching at the Paris Conservatory. From 1994 to 1999 he also taught at the Freiburg University of Music.

Béroff also took part as a juror in international piano competitions such as the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Publications

Béroff has released more than 75 records on the EMI Music and Warner Classics labels .

Web links

literature

  • Alain Pâris: Classical music in the 20th century, singers, conductors, orchestras, choirs . Michel Béroff. dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-32501-1 , p. 73 .
  • Ingo Harden, Gregor Willmes: Pianist Profiles. 600 pianists: their biography, their style, their recordings . Michel Béroff. 1st edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1616-5 , p. 77 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eugene Chadbourne (All Music).
  2. ↑ a b Alain Pâris, 1997.
  3. ↑ a b c d France musique: Michel Béroff. Retrieved December 6, 2018 (French).
  4. ↑ Klaus Umbach (Der Spiegel): With the pajamas on the fat chair (SPIEGEL editor Klaus Umbach on the composing rage of the new speaker Franz Hummel). July 10, 1989. Retrieved December 15, 2018 . .
  5. ↑ Harden, Willmes. 2008
personal data
SURNAME Béroff, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French classical pianist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Epinal