Marie-Catherine Girod at La Folle Journée in 2018 in Nantes
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Marie-Catherine Girod (born 19 August 1949) is a French classical pianist.
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Marie-Catherine Girod (born 19 August 1949) is a French classical pianist.
Born in Peyrehorade, Girod studied piano at the Conservatoire de musique de Bordeaux, then at the Conservatoire de Paris where she entered Jules Gentil's class. She then worked with Paul Badura-Skoda and György Sebők. She is regularly invited to "Mai" festivals in Bordeaux, La Roque-d'Anthéron, the "Festival Estival de Paris", the "Chopin Festival" of Château de Bagatelle, the Festival de Nohant , the Husum Festival in Germany, the "Alexandre Paley et ses amis" Festival, the "Moulin d’Andé" Festival (Normandy). She performs in recital in Europe and the United States (Richmond Festival in Virginia), in chamber formation and as soloist with various orchestras, including the orchestra of Brittany with which she recorded Paul Le Flem's Fantaisie pour piano et orchestre. She frequently participates in concerts organized by Radio France, and in radio broadcasts.
An artist with a passionate temperament, an open and curious mind, she is as well at ease in the great classical and romantic repertoire (Carl Maria von Weber, Frédéric Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn,) as with Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy and Henri Dutilleux. She can also be found playing repertoire that is less well-known, contributing to the rediscovery of composers who are rarely played. Among others, her recordings of works by Gabriel Dupont, Maurice Emmanuel, André Jolivet, Arthur Lourié and Gustave Samazeuilh are unanimously [ citation needed ] acclaimed by critics, and have won her numerous awards. Through her personal choices, her total commitment to bringing music to life [ peacock prose ] , Girod brings unjustly neglected composers to light through records and concerts.
In addition to her technical mastery, her playing shows great expressiveness, alternately brilliant and intimate, clear, colourful and delicate, using a vast palette of nuances that always seduces the audience. [ peacock prose ] In 2009 she completed a recording cycle of the complete piano work by Felix Mendelssohn.
A pedagogue, she directed the Conservatory of Sucy-en-Brie (94) from 1986 to 2012, she created in 1992 the Concours national de piano of Sucy that she organized until 2005, and has been teaching since October 2011 at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. [1]
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