Edson Elias (

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, February 11, 1947 –

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, May 16, 2008) was a Brazilian pianist. He centered his career in

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since he was appointed professor of the Paris' Ecole Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in 1983 while remaining attached to his homeland's musical life, his 1987 integral of

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's piano œuvre both in

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and

being specially long remembered. One year before he accompanied

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by

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's piano concerto. In addition to his position in the Ecole Normale he was a professor in the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de

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since 2002. He was also active as a teacher in

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, the Geneve Conservatory's ''Classe de virtuosité'' having been at his charge for the last fifteen years.

References

Brazilian male classical pianists 1947 births 2008 deaths José Iturbi International Piano Competition prize-winners École Normale de Musique de Paris alumni 20th-century classical musicians 20th-century Brazilian classical pianists Academic staff of the École Normale de Musique de Paris {{Brazil-musician-stub