Pierre Pradier (born 26 July 1948) is a French classical pianist.
Born in La Seyne-sur-Mer, Pradier won the grand prix of the city of Marseille in Pierre Barbizet's class, in conjunction with law studies at the Faculty of Aix-en-Provence. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he won the 4 first prizes including one for the piano in Monique de la Bruchollerie's class. Various encounters then with Pierre Bernac, Henri Sauguet, and Vladimir Jankélévitch influenced him a lot, as well as the advice of Gyorgy Cziffra and Emil Gilels. Laureate of the International Casella Competition in Naples, and winner of the Alex de Vriès prize of the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition, he performed in Europe and the United States, and recorded several discs devoted to Chopin, Liszt and Rachmaninoff. He also participated in the recording of film music, notably René Allio's, and television programs including Le Grand Échiquier devoted to Gyorgy Cziffra. Pradier also accompanies singers such as Claude Dormoy [1] and Michel Dens. In addition, Pradier has collaborated on several ballet creations by Roland Petit, such as Parisiana 25, Les amours de Franz, Soirées Debussy n°2, Ma Pavlova, Charlot danse avec nous, as guest solo pianist with Dominique Khalfouni, Zizi Jeanmaire, Maya Plisetskaya, Patrick Dupond, Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Pradier is an Academic of the Conservatoire de Marseille . Several students in his class have joined the Conservatoires nationaux supérieurs of Paris and Lyon, and the Brussels and Geneva conservatories.
György Cziffra, also known as Georges Cziffra and George Cziffra, was a Hungarian-French virtuoso pianist and composer. He is considered to be one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of the twentieth century. Among his teachers was István Thomán, who was a favourite pupil of Franz Liszt.
Hélène Grimaud is a French classical pianist and the founder of the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York.
İdil Biret is a Turkish concert pianist.
Cyprien Katsaris is a French-Cypriot virtuoso pianist, teacher and composer. Amongst his teachers were Monique de la Bruchollerie, a student of Emil von Sauer, who had been a pupil of Franz Liszt. He is known for his refined sound, command of voicing, and virtually effortless physical mastery of technique. He is particularly notable as the first pianist to record the complete Liszt transcriptions of Beethoven's nine symphonies—works that are among the most technically challenging in all of piano repertoire.
Romain Hervé is a French classical pianist.
Éliane Reyes is a Belgian pianist who is known both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. She is also currently Professor of Piano at both the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles and the Conservatoire de Paris. In 2016, she was designated a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, by the French government.
István Kassai is a Hungarian pianist. He graduated at the Budapest Liszt Academy of Music in 1982 studying in the class of Pál Kadosa. Then in 1984 he pursued his second diploma in the Conservatoire Européen de Musique de Paris under the close supervision of Yvonne Lefébure. During and after his studies he also undertook several master courses, such as the one led by György Cziffra in Senlis and Keszthely, too.
Nathalie Béra-Tagrine is a French classical pianist of Russian descent.
Florence Delaage is a French contemporary classical pianist.
Marie-Catherine Girod is a French classical pianist.
Véronique Roux is a French classical pianist.
Emmanuelle Swiercz is a French classical pianist.
Henri Barda is a French classical pianist born in Cairo.
Florent Boffard is a French classical pianist and pedagogue.
Erik Berchot is a French classical pianist.
Pascal Gallet is a French classical pianist.
Cyril Huvé is a French classical pianist.
Claude Kahn is a French classical pianist. Internationally renowned concert performer, known for his interpretations of Romantic music and more precisely the music of Chopin, but also of French music as soloist or accompanied by great orchestras in the world.
Pascal Le Corre is a French classical pianist, teacher and author
Raymond Trouard was a French classical pianist.