Pascal Godart

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Pascal Godart (* 1971) is a French pianist.

Life

Godart was a piano student of Renée Entremont, the mother of the pianist Philippe Entremont , and Yvonne Loriod and received first prizes at the Conservatoire de Paris in the subjects of piano, chamber music and accompaniment. From 1993 he studied at the Hanover University of Music , where he passed his concert exam with Vladimir Krainev.

He successfully participated in international piano competitions a. a. in Milan, Cleveland, Tokyo and Porto and won the Grand Prix Maria Callas in Athens in 1996 . He then received invitations from the Orchester Pasdeloup, Orchester Philharmonique de Nice , Orchester Philharmonique de Strasbourg and other orchestras. The focus of his repertoire as a concert pianist is, alongside compositions by Chopin and Ravel, the piano concertos by Rachmaninoff , Beethoven and others.

As a chamber musician, he has performed with Latica Honda-Rosenberg , Natalia Gutman , the Psophos , the Alma and the Emperor Quartet , among others . During a concert tour with the Dnipropetrovsk orchestra, he was also a conductor of Mozart's piano concertos . In addition to compositions by Schubert , Stravinsky and Franck, he recorded an album with works by Henri Dutilleux .

In 2010 Pascal Godart was professor at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne ; from 2012 to 2014 at the Académie de Musique Tibor Varga in Sion and at the Academie du Grand Paris.

Pascal Godart was invited as a juror at the Maria Callas Competition 2010 in Athens and in the preliminary rounds of the Concours de Genève 2014.

Discography

  • Pascal Godart, Alexandre Brussilovsky, Guennadi Freidine, Bion Tsang, Strauss & Turina piano quartets
  • Pascal Godart and Solistes de l'Orchestre de Paris, Saint-Saëns Intégrale
  • Pascal Godart & Alexandre Brussilovsky, Shostakovich sonata
  • Pascal Godart & Alexandre Brussilovsky, Pierné & Lekeu sonatas
  • Pascal Godart & Marc Trénel play Koechlin , Saint-Saëns , Pierné
  • Henri Dutilleux: Pages de Jeunesse , sonate pour piano, 2007
  • L'esprit du piano français , 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Godart, Pascal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century