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PASCAL AMOYEL
Pascal Amoyel
In 2010, Pascal Amoyel received the Grand Prix du Disque awarded by the Fryderyk
Chopin Society of Warsaw for his recording of the complete Chopin Nocturnes.
Classica
magazine acclaimed it as ‘a miracle we didn’t dare hope for: merely an ideal version, that
we listen to, transfixed, in state of weightlessness, thrilled, in the strongest sense of the
term, by so much beauty’.
In 2009, this samemagazine selected his interpretation of Liszt’s
Funérailles
as one of the
four best ever. references. Two years earlier, his recording of Liszt’s
Harmonies Poétiques et
Religieuses
was chosen by the TV station Arte as one of the five best albums of the year.
An exceptional figure, Pascal Amoyel was born in 1971 and became known to the
wider public in 2005, when he was named ‘Solo Instrumental Discovery of the Year’ at
the Victoires de la Musique. He is also a composer, and 2010 winner of the Fondation
d’Entreprise Banque Populaire. He is the artistic director of the Notes d’Automne Festival
that he created at Perreux-sur-Marne.
He gives recitals in leading venues throughout Europe - the Berlin Philharmonie, Cité
de de la Musique and Salle Pleyel in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam - in the United States,
Canada, Russia, China and Japan, and has appeared as a soloist with the Orchestre de
Paris (with a DVD recording), the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre National de
Montpellier, Symphony Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio, the Moscow State
Symphony Orchestra and theWuhan Philharmonic Orchestra.
He also received the Premier Grand Prix International Arts-Deux Magots, awarded to
a ‘musician demonstrating openness and generosity’. Pascal Amoyel is a Chevalier de
l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
www.pascal-amoyel.com