Pascal Devoyon

Pascal Devoyon (born April 6, 1953 in Paris ) is a French pianist and music teacher.

Life

Pascal Devoyon studied at the Conservatoire de Paris . He won prizes at the Viotti , Leeds and Busoni competitions and, in 1978, the silver medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow .

In 1990 he made his debut at New York's Carnegie Hall . Since then he has performed a repertoire of more than 50 piano concertos with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra , the NHK Symphony Orchestra , the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra , the Orchester symphonique de Montréal , the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchester de Paris .

As a chamber musician he worked a. a. with Mstislaw Rostropowitsch and Jean-Jacques Kantorow , with the violinists Dong-Suk Kang and Philippe Graffin , the cellists Steven Isserlis and Tilmann Wick and the pianist Christian Ivaldi . In 2004 he gave the world premiere of Joseph Canteloubes Sur la montagne and Pierre de Bréville's Sonata in C sharp minor with Graffin ; the recording of the pieces was awarded a Diapason d'or . Since 2006 he has been working as a piano duo with his wife Rikako Murata.

In 1991 Devoyon became professor at the Conservatoire de Paris . In 1996 he was appointed to the University of the Arts in Berlin. He is also a professor at the Geneva Conservatory . Since 1999 he has directed the MusicAlp festival together with Dong-Suk Kang .

Devoyon's recordings include a. Piano concertos by Maurice Ravel , Franz Liszt , César Franck , Robert Schumann , Camille Saint-Saëns , Peter Tschaikowski and Edvard Grieg as well as chamber music by Arthur Honegger , Gabriel Fauré , Ernest Chausson and Camille Saint-Saëns.

Individual evidence

Web links

• Pascal Devoyon on the website of the Berlin University of the Arts
• Information on Pascal Devoyon in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .