Michel Dalberto

Michel Dalberto offers rightly achieved a popularity among the leading France pianists of his era, in spite of a reserved design and penchant for less flashy repertory. Actually, Dalberto is well known for his Mozart and Schubert, even though he performs Liszt, Schumann, Debussy, Ravel, and various other composers connected with more challenging functions, he provides generally prevented the virtuosic aspect of their music. Probably Dalberto’s greatest fulfillment to time was his documented cycle of the entire piano functions of Schubert, captured on the 14-CD established for the Denon label. Dalberto in addition has made an appearance in concert and on recordings as accompanist to performers like Jessye Norman and Barbara Hendricks, so that as a collaborator in a variety of chamber works, specifically for violin and piano. He provides made many recordings for a number of major labels over time, including Denon, EMI, BMG/RCA, Harmonia Mundi, and Erato. Dalberto was created on June 2, 1955, in Paris, France. His family members was non-musical, but youthful Michel started playing the piano before his 4th birthday. At age group 12 he was learning with Vlado Perlemuter in the Paris Conservatory. Later on educators included Nikita Magaloff and Jean Hubeau. In 1975 Dalberto received the Clara Haskil Competition and 3 years later on the Leeds Competition, where he performed a Mozart concerto in the ultimate round, the just first-prize champion ever to take action. Debuts in main European cities quickly adopted, including Paris, Montreal, Amsterdam, Vienna, Frankfurt, and Rome. His 1st recordings had been also producing a splash: within the Erato label discs of Beethoven sonatas (1980), Mozart concertos (1981), and Chausson tunes with Jessye Norman (1983), seemed to generally beneficial crucial response. From 1988-1995 Dalberto documented all of the piano music of Schubert, mostly of the pianists to took on this problem. In 1991 he started providing as chairman from the jury in the Clara Haskil Competition in Vevey, Switzerland. Dalberto authorized a agreement with BMG in 1997 and his 1st documenting for the label, Debussy’s Pictures and Preludes (Publication I) — released on RCA, accomplished wide crucial acclaim. In the brand new century Dalberto continued to be busy in the concert and documenting moments. His 2005-2006 concert timetable was filled with engagements throughout Italy, France, Britain, Russia, as well as the U.S., including many performances with main orchestras. His recordings add a 2004 RCA discharge of Liszt paraphrases on operatic resources from Wagner and Verdi.