Pascal Godart (dates unknown) is a French classical pianist.
Pascal Godart (dates unknown) is a French classical pianist.
Godart learned to play the piano at age five with Renée Entremont, [1] pianist Philippe Entremont's mother, then with Yvonne Loriod and won a first prize for piano, chamber music and accompaniment at the Conservatoire de Paris. He also worked the piano with Pierre Réach and Vadim Sakharov. [2]
He won international piano competitions in Milan (Dino Ciani Competition, 1993, 2nd prize), Cleveland (Robert Casadesus Competition (1989), 4th prize), Tokyo (1992) and Porto (1990) and won the Grand Prix Maria Callas in Athens in 1996. He was then invited by numerous orchestras such as the Pasdeloup Orchestra, the Orchestre philharmonique de Nice , the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, and the Orchestre de la Jeune Russie. [3] In addition to the works of Chopin and Ravel, his repertoire includes concertos by Rachmaninov, Brahms, Mozart and Beethoven among others.
As a chamber musician, he plays in particular with violinists Latica Honda-Rosenberg, [4] Pavel Vernikov, Svetlana Makarova, cellists Natalia Gutman, Henri Demarquette, Joël Marosi, the Psophos Quartet , the Alma quartet. During a concert tour with the Dnipro orchestra, he performed Mozart's piano concertos, also as a conductor. He recorded works by Schubert, Stravinsky, and Dutilleux.
Since 2010, he has been professor at the Hemu [5] (Lausanne site) and from 2012, at the Tibor Varga music academy at Sion.
Godart was a member of the jury at the International Maria Callas Grand Prix 2010 in Athens, and of the preselection committee at the 2014 Geneva International Piano Competition.
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