Claire Désert

Claire Désert (born 1967) is a French classical pianist.

Claire Désert, La Folle Journée 2017

Biography

Born in Angoulême, Désert began learning the piano at the age of five. At fourteen, she joined the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP).[1] A student of French composer Jean Hubeau, she won the First prize for chamber music.[2]

In 1985, she was unanimously awarded the first piano prize by the jury. She then enrolled in the class of the Bulgarian pianist Ventsislav Yankov. In the same year, she was admitted into the piano improvement cycle.[3] She obtained a scholarship from the French government and went to study for one year at the Tchaïkovski Conservatory of Moscow, in the class of Yevgeny Malinin. Back in France, she joined the class of cellist Roland Pidoux and further perfected her chamber music skills.[4]

Career

Since the early 1990s, the musician has performed on stages such as the Wigmore Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Salle Pleyel as well as in international festivals at the invitation of La Folle Journée, the Piano aux Jacobins, the Lille Piano(s) Festival, the Flâneries musicales de Reims,[5] the Festival international de musique de Colmar, the Stavelot Festival[6] and the George Enescu Festival in Bucarest.[3][7][8]

In 1997, she was named "New Talent of the Year" at the Victoires de la musique classique for her performance of the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's and the Russian pianist and composer Alexander Scriabin's concertos, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg.[9][10]

Désert is also a professor of piano at the Conservatoire de Paris

Collaborations

As a soloist, she regularly accompanies renowned symphonic formations such as the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Orchestre philharmonique de Paris, the Orchestre national de Lille, the Orchestre symphonique de Québec and the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France.[3] Her musical career has led her to play and record alongside the musicians of the Sine Nomine Quartet, cellists Anne Gastinel, Gary Hoffman, violinists Tedi Papavrami, Philippe Graffin and Nemanja Radulović and pianist Emmanuel Strosser.[11][12][13]

Discography

Personal albums

Collaborations

Compilations

Live recordings

References
  1. Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. "Claire Désert". www.conservatoiredeparis.fr (in French). Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  2. "Claire Désert". pianobleu.com.
  3. "Biographie de Claire Désert". sartoryartists.com (in French). Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  4. Christelle Lasaires (2012). "Claire Désert, une Angoumoisine devenue virtuose". Charente Libre (in French). Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  5. Claire Désert at Flâneris musicales de Reims
  6. Festival de Stavelot interview
  7. "Un festival reconnu par les grands noms de la musique". La Depeche (in French). 2018. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  8. "Claire Désert et Emmanuel Strosser au Festival de Stavelot « Festivals « La Scène « ResMusica". www.resmusica.com (in French). Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  9. "Le palmarès des Victoires de la musique classique". La Croix (in French). 1997. ISSN 0242-6056. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  10. "Les Victoires de La Musique - Palmarès 1997". FranceTV (in French). Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  11. "Trio Wanderer & Claire Désert". HIGHRESAUDIO. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  12. "Claire Désert : portrait et biographie sur France Musique". France Musique (in French). Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  13. "Guignes : La pianiste Claire Désert célèbre Beethoven et Brahms". Le Parisien (in French). 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
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