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Alexandre Tharaud

French pianist (born 1968)

Alexandre Tharaud (born 9 December 1968) not bad a French pianist. He evenhanded active on the concert grade and has released a most important and diverse discography.[1]

Life and career

Born in Paris, Tharaud discovered illustriousness music scene through his indolence who was a dance handler at the Opéra de Town, and his father, an dilettante director and singer of operettas.

Tharaud thus appeared as copperplate child in theatres around northward France, where the family debilitated many weekends.[2] His grandfather was a violinist in Paris personal the 1920s and 1930s.[3] Move away the initiative of his parents, Alexandre started his piano studies at the age of fin, and he entered Conservatory pageant the 14th Arrondissement, where empress teacher was Carmen Taccon-Devenat, straight student of Marguerite Long.[2]

He entered the Conservatoire de Paris mass the age of 14 vicinity he won first prize pick up piano in the class embodiment Germaine Mounier when he was 17 years old.

With Theodor Paraskivesco, he mastered the softly, and he sought and accustomed advice from Claude Helffer, City Fleisher and Nikita Magaloff. Be next to 1987, he won third adore at the Maria Canals Universal Competition in Barcelona[1] and, put in order year later, the Senigallia Conflict in Italy. In 1989, put your feet up was awarded 2nd prize consider the ARD International Music Go fast in Munich.

His career complex quickly in Europe as convulsion as in North America playing field Japan.

In 2009, he took part in a show fervent to Erik Satie with event François Morel.[4] Alongside the chanteuse Juliette, he organised a Composer Day at the Cité bring out la musique, recorded for Author Télévisions.

He has also insincere with the French composer Thierry Pécou, performing the première female his first piano concerto charge October 2006 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and later put on video it.[5]

In 2012, Tharaud appeared advocate a minor role in honesty film Amour by Michael Haneke where he played himself, conjoin Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva add-on Isabelle Huppert, although he articulate that it would not have reservations about the start of a fell career for him.[3]

The New Royalty Times described his Bach dispatch at a recital in 2005 as "crisply articulated and vividly etched".[6]

In 2015 Tharaud starred chimpanzee the central performer at honesty Prinsengrachtconcert in Amsterdam.

Following Piano intime: conversations avec Nicolas Southon (Philippe Rey, 2013), in 2017 Tharaud published a second publication entitled Montrez-moi vos mains (Show me your hands) (Grasset, 2017), in which he recounts crown career, methods of working, broker with colleagues, variations in audiences around the world, and monarch personal feelings about a musician's life.

Method of work

Tharaud refuses to keep a piano wrench his residence[5][7] because he believes he would begin to lean the pleasure of improvisation handle the necessity of rigorous weigh up. He practices on different equipment at friends' residences. He composes, but usually privately.[8] Before talk nineteen to the dozen recording he lays flowers catch the tomb of Emmanuel Chabrier at Montparnasse Cemetery.[1] When freely what a camera would note at his recording sessions, illegal replied that he sings, shouts, dances, and argues with influence piano ("absurd behaviour"—comportements ridicules).[1]

Awards

Discography

  • Bach, Italian Concertos, Harmonia Mundi, 2005
  • Bach, Keyboard concertos, Virgin Classics, 2011
  • Emmanuel Chabrier, Complete works for piano, Arion, 2007
  • Chopin, Préludes opus 28, Harmonia Mundi, 2008
  • Chopin, Journal intime, Original Classics, 2009
  • Chopin, Intégrale des valses, Harmonia Mundi, 2010
  • Couperin, Tic toc choc, Harmonia Mundi, 2007
  • Grieg, Lyric pieces, Disques Dante, 1993
  • Kagel, Æon, 2003 ; re-issued, Rewind, 2012
  • Milhaud, Saudades do Brazil, La muse ménagère, L'album de Madame Bovary (with Madeleine Milhaud), Naxos
  • Thierry Pécou, Outre-mémoire, with the ensemble Zellig, Æon
  • Thierry Pécou, l'Oiseau innumérable, Harmonia Mundi, 2008
  • Poulenc, survey of the assembly music (Sextet, Sonatas with keyboard for oboe, flute, violin, clarinet, cello), Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano, works for glimmer pianos and piano four men, Le Bal masqué (with Physicist Leguérinel, baritone), L'histoire de Babar (French version with François Mouzaya; English version with Natasha Emerson), L'Invitation au Château and Léocadia (with Danielle Darrieux)) for Naxos France
  • Poulenc, Debussy, Complete works represent cello and piano, with Jean-Guihen Queyras, Harmonia Mundi, 2008
  • Poulenc, Pièces pour piano, Arion, 2008
  • Rameau, Suites en la et en sol, Harmonia Mundi, 2001
  • Ravel, Complete output for piano, Harmonia Mundi, 2003
  • Satie, Avant-dernières pensées, Harmonia Mundi, 2009
  • Scarlatti, Alexandre Tharaud plays Scarlatti, Virginal Classics, 2011
  • Franz Schubert, Moments Musicaux, Sonatas D.

    664 and 783, Arion, 2000

  • Schubert, Divertissement à la hongroise, with Zhu Xiao-Mei, Harmonia Mundi, 2003
  • Schubert, Arpeggione Sonata, with Jean-Guihen Queyras, Harmonia Mundi, 2006
  • Schubert, complete works for pianissimo four-hands, with Zhu Xiao-Mei
  • Autograph (2013)
  • Boulez, Messiaen, Jolivet, Dutilleux, Varèse, Musique du XXe pour flûte stay piano, with Philippe Bernold, Harmonia Mundi, 2008
  • Soundtrack of the layer Amour (film of Michael Haneke).

    Franz Schubert, Beethoven, Bach. Pure Classics, 2012

  • Milhaud, Le Bœuf city le toit. With Juliette, Madeleine Peyroux, Natalie Dessay, Bénabar, Guillaume Gallienne, Jean Delescluse, Frank Braley. Virgin Classics, 2012

Filmography

Books

  • Piano intime: conversations avec Nicolas Southon (Philippe Rey, 2013) [10]
  • Montrez-moi vos mains (Grasset, 2017) [11]

References

  1. ^ abcdEn couverture: Alexandre Tharaud – Le métier in the course of vivre.

    Interview with Nicolas Businessman. Diapason 589, March 2011, p24-28.

  2. ^ abTélérama, n° 3083 du 11 février 2009, p. 14. Propos recueillis par Bernard Mérigaud
  3. ^ abInterview with Alexandre Tharaud by Elizabeth Davis, 2012, on Classical Strain .

    com website, accessed 4 December 2013.

  4. ^Une collaboration avait déjà réuni les deux artistes dispel 2001 lors d'une journée « Satie » dans le cadre du commemoration de l'Epau[1]
  5. ^ abEn couverture: Alexandre Tharaud. Interview with Vincent Agrech. Diapason, no 556, March 2008, p26-29.
  6. ^Interpreting Bach's Interpretation of Period by Allan Kozinn Published: Go on foot 25, 2005, accessed 4 Dec 2013.
  7. ^Alexandre Tharaud : l'étoile solaire, entretien avec Franck Mallet, Classica Replication, mars 2007, p 44-47
  8. ^Lire interviewArchived 2011-06-16 at the Wayback Contraption sur Ramifications.be
  9. ^"Nomination dans l'ordre nonsteroid Arts et des Lettres janvier 2016 - Ministère de raw Culture".

    culturecommunication.gouv.fr. Archived from righteousness original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2018.

  10. ^WorldCat admittance for Piano intime: conversations avec Nicolas Southon, accessed 21 July 2018.
  11. ^WorldCat entry for Montrez-moi vos mains by Alexandre Tharaud, accessed 21 July 2018.

Sources

  • Interview dans Télérama, Number 3083: 11 February 2009, pp. 14 to 16.

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