Alexandre Tharaud

Though he’s popular for his interpretations of French keyboard music, Alexandre Tharaud in addition has achieved critical acclaim for his J.S. Bach and Chopin. Furthermore, he offers championed much modern music, particularly functions by Mauricio Kagel and Thierry Pécou. Tharaud offers even were able to blend both Baroque with contemporary fare in his concerts, fashioning applications constructed around Rameau (billed as Hommage ? Rameau) and Couperin (Hommage ? Couperin), wherein the pianist interleaves functions by the particular Baroque get better at with those of contemporary composers like Renaud Gagneux, Gerard Pesson, Francois-Bernard Mâche, among others. Tharaud can be involved in additional imaginative development activity, as an all-Satie concert he offers regularly considering that uses a vocalist and narrator for several numbers. Tharaud offers often made an appearance with lots of the leading orchestras in European countries and collaborated in chamber works together with flutist Philippe Bernold, violinist Pierre Amoyal, cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, among others. To get a pianist who started recording just from about 1995, Tharaud offers amassed a significant sizable discography, with 30 or even more titles obtainable from various brands, including Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, Virgin Classics, and Naïve. Alexandre Tharaud was created in Paris on Dec 9, 1968. His dad was a vocalist and movie director of operas. At five Alexandre started piano lessons with 14 enrolled in the Paris Conservatory. Among his educators there have been Germaine Mounier and Thésmell Paraskivesco. Tharaud got later research with Leon Fleisher, Nikita Magaloff, and Claude Helffer. In 1987 Tharaud earned the Barcelona-based Maria Callas Competition and 2 yrs later completed second in the renowned ARD Competition in Munich. He quickly drew see on his concert trips throughout France and European countries. Naxos released his first documenting in 1995, a disk of piano functions by Milhaud. In 2000-2001 Tharaud documented five quantities of the entire chamber functions of Poulenc for the Naxos label. Tharaud received the Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles-Cros in 2003 for his two-disc arranged on Harmonia Mundi of the entire solo piano functions of Ravel. In Oct 2006, Tharaud received luxurious compliment when he offered the world-premiere efficiency of Thierry Pécou’s Piano Concerto (l’Oiseau Innumérable) in the Theater des Champs-Elysees. Tharaud’s flexibility in chamber music was underscored in 2008-2009 by his acclaimed shows on tour through the entire U.S., South Korea, and Japan with Queyras. Tharaud’s later on recordings are the 2010 Virgin Classics documenting of Chopin functions entitled Mon Journal Intime.