Alexandre Tharaud

Alexandre Tharaud born 9 December 1968 is a French pianist He is active on the concert stage and has released a large and diverse discography Born in Paris Tharaud discovered the music scene through his mother who was a dance teacher at the Opéra de Paris and his father an amateur director and singer of operettas Tharaud thus appeared as a child in theatres around northern France where the family spent many weekends His grandfather was a violinist in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s At the initiative of his parents Alexandre started his piano studies at the age of five and he entered Conservatory of the 14th Arrondissement where his teacher was Carmen TacconDevenat a student of Marguerite Long He entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of 14 where he won first prize for piano in the class of Germaine Mounier when he was 17 years old With Theodor Paraskivesco he mastered the piano and he sought and received advice from Claude Helffer Leon Fleisher and Nikita Magaloff In 1987 he won third prize at the Maria Canals International Competition in Barcelona and a year later the Senigallia Competition in Italy In 1989 he was awarded 2nd prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich His career developed quickly in Europe as well as in North America and Japan In 2009 he took part in a show devoted to Erik Satie with actor François Morel Alongside the singer Juliette he organised a Satie Day at the Cité de la musique recorded for France Télévisions He has also worked with the French composer Thierry Pécou performing the première of his first piano concerto in October 2006 at the Théâtre des ChampsÉlysées and later recording it In 2012 Tharaud took part in the French film Amour by Michael Haneke where he played himself alongside JeanLouis Trintignant Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert although he said that it would not be the start of a film career for him The New York Times described his Bach playing at a recital in 2005 as crisply articulated and vividly etched In 2015 Tharaud starred as the central performer at the Prinsengrachtconcert in Amsterdam Following Piano intime conversations avec Nicolas Southon Philippe Rey 2013 in 2017 Tharaud published a second book entitled Montrezmoi vos mains Show me your hands Grasset 2017 in which he recounts his career methods of working relationships with colleagues variations in audiences around the world and his personal feelings about a musicians life Source Article Alexandre Tharaud from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30