Thérèse Dussaut

Thérèse Dussaut (born September 20, 1939 in Versailles ) is a French pianist and music teacher .

Life

The daughter of the composer Robert Dussaut and the composer Hélène Corvatti studied piano with Marguerite Long and Pierre Sancan in France and with the Russian pianist Wladimir Horbowski in Germany . She won prizes at the Conservatoire de Paris and the Stuttgart University of Music . In 1957 she received first prize at the ARD International Music Competition in the piano category .

After graduating, she began an international career as a concert pianist. Her repertoire includes works by contemporary composers such as Charles Chaynes ' Piano Concerto and Léon Mouravieff's Strophe, Antistrophe and Epode .

From 1987 to 1995 she was artistic director of the Cévennes Festival, which she founded . Between 1988 and 2000 she directed a summer university. She has given master classes in the USA, Russia, Germany and Ukraine and leads a master class for piano at the Conservatoire de Toulouse . Her students include a. the pianists Patrick Lechner , Elif Sahin-Nesweda , Nina Presicek , Peter Schedding , Felix Romankiewicz , Asli Kilic , Sora Dietzinger and Mayumi Asano . Furthermore Dussaut worked as a juror a. a. at the Tchaikovsky Competition and the Horowitz Competition .