Bruno Pasquier (born 10 December 1943 in

Neuilly-sur-Seine Neuilly-sur-Seine (; 'Neuilly-on-Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is an urban Communes of France, commune in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department just west of Paris in France. Immediately adjacent to the city, north of the ...

), is a French violist, the son of

Pierre Pasquier Pierre Pasquier may refer to: * Pierre Pasquier (businessman) * Pierre Pasquier (colonial administrator) Pierre Marie Antoine Pasquier (6 February 1877 – 15 January 1934) was a French colonial administrator. French Indochina Pasquier served ...

, also a violist.

Biography

After a First Prize at the

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in 1961, Pasquier won the ARD International Music Competition in 1965. From 1965 to 1985, he was first soloist in the

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orchestra and subsequently, from 1985 to 1990 at the

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. Since 1970, he has been teaching at the Conservatoire de Paris, first as assistant to Serge Collot, then as viola and

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teacher (since 1983). With his brother

Régis Pasquier Régis Pasquier (born 12 October 1945) is a French violinist from a family of musicians. His father Pierre Pasquier (1902–1986), a violist and his uncles Jean (1903), a violinist, and Étienne (1905–1997), a cellist, had founded a string trio, ...

(

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and

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) and

cellist The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned i ...

Roland Pidoux, he was for a while a member of a sought after trio. Bruno Pasquier plays a viola by Paolo Maggini (early seventeenth).

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