31 MICHEL DALBERTO Michel Dalberto Born in Paris in 1955, Michel Dalberto was thirteen when he entered the class of Vlado Perlemuter, one of Alfred Cortot’s favourite pupils, at the Paris Conservatoire. At the age of twenty he won the first Mozart Competition in Salzburg and was unanimously awarded the Clara Haskil Prize. The First Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition (where he succeeded Radu Lupu, András Schiff and Murray Perahia) sealed his reputation in 1978. He was then invited to play in most of Europe’s musical centres with such conductors as Erich Leinsdorf, Kurt Masur, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Charles Dutoit, Sir Colin Davis, Yuri Temirkanov and Daniele Gatti. He is also a guest at major festivals, including Lucerne, Florence, Aix-enProvence, the Wiener Festwochen, Edinburgh, Schleswig-Holstein, La Grange de Meslay, La Roque d’Anthéron, Newport, Miami and Seattle. Since the beginning of his career, Michel Dalberto has been acknowledged as one of the leading interpreters of Schubert and Mozart. Among his other composers of predilection are Liszt, Debussy, Fauré, Schumann and Ravel. Teaching is of paramount importance to him. After twelve years at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, he is now a guest professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Weimar, the Yehudi Menuhin School in Qingdao (China) and the Conservatoire Serge Rachmaninoff in Paris. A renowned chamber musician, he plays in trio formation with Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, in duo partnerships with Boris Belkin, Vadim Repin, Yuri Bashmet, Truls Mørk and Emmanuel Pahud, and performs the piano quintet repertory with the Ébène, Modigliani and Hermès quartets. In the domain of vocal music, he has partnered Jessye Norman, Barbara Hendricks, Nathalie Stutzmann, Stephan Genz and Stanislas de Barbeyrac. For several years now, he has worked extensively in China.
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