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34 CHAUSSON, RAVEL ∙ TRIOS FOR PIANO, VIOLIN AND CELLO Victor Metral Victor Metral holds three master’s degrees from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris – in piano, chamber music and vocal accompaniment – as well as a Performer’s Diploma and several national and international First Prizes. He developed a substantial repertory through playing with his violinist brother and cellist sister from childhood onwards. His musical maturitymakes himone of the leading pianists of his generation. A fine interpreter of Romantic music but also a modern performer committed to contemporary compositions, he is a powerful, reserved and immensely inspired musician. A prizewinner of the Steinway & Sons Competition and the Madeleine de Valmalète Competition, he was awarded the Premier Grand Prix at the FLAME ‘Young Soloists’ Competition in Paris and First Prize and the Special Jury Prize at the sixth Teresa Llacuna Piano Competition. He also received a special Liszt Prize at the Claude Kahn Competition in Paris. Victor Metral pursued advanced studies with such great artists as Aldo Ciccolini, Alfred Brendel, Menahem Pressler and Jean-Claude Pennetier. He also collaborates with composers including Éric Tanguy, Philippe Hersant and Michel Petrossian. His concerts have taken him all over France, to the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium, and to Vienna, Florence, Vilnius, Germany and Morocco.