Pascal Dubreuil

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Pascal Dubreuil is a French harpsichordist .

Life

After studying with Yannick Le Gaillard and at the Paris Conservatory, where Dubreuil graduated with first prizes in harpsichord and figured bass. He deepened his knowledge with numerous musicians, including Kenneth Gilbert and especially Gustav Leonhardt . He studied orchestral conducting with Nicolas Brochot .

In 1997 he received a 2nd prize for organ playing at the MAfestival Bruges competition . He then began a career as a soloist and chamber music player in France, Germany ( Ruhr Piano Festival ), Spain (Festival de Música antiga in Barcelona ), Slovakia (with Musica Aeterna Bratislava ), etc.

Teaching

Pascal Dubreuil teaches harpsichord, figured bass and chamber music at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional in Rennes , where he heads the department for historical performance practice . At the same time he teaches harpsichord, figured bass, chamber music and musical rhetoric ( Bachelor / Master ) at the Center d'études supérieures de musique et danse in Poitiers .

Discography (selection)

Pascal Dubreuil has been working with the Ramée label for several years.

  • 2013: Johann Sebastian Bach , Fait pour les Anglois , The English Suites BWV 806-811, Ramée (1207).
  • 2010: Johann Sebastian Bach , Keyboard Exercise II , Ramée (1001): Italian Concerto BWV 971, French-style Overture BWV 831, Prelude, Fugue and Allegro BWV 998, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue BWV 903.
  • 2008: Johann Sebastian Bach , Keyboard Exercise I , Six Partitas for the piano BWV 825-830, Ramée (0804).
  • 2007: Antoine Dard , Six Sonates pour le basson (1759), with Ricardo Rapoport , baroque bassoon, Ramée (0702), world premiere

Musical rhetoric

Pascal Dubreuil published the first complete French translation of Joachim Burmeister's Musica Poetica (1606) in collaboration with Agathe Sueur :

  • Joachim Burmeister, Musica poetica (1606) augmentée des plus excellentes remarques tirées de Hypomnematum musicae poeticae (1599) et de Musica autoschédiastikè (1601) , introduction, Latin text and French translation, lexicon by Agathe Sueur and Pascal Dubreuil, Wavre, Mardaga, 2007 .

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personal data
SURNAME Dubreuil, Pascal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French harpsichordist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century