Florent Boffard (born in 1964) is a French classical pianist and pedagogue.
Biography
Boffard received his first musical training at the Conservatoire National de Région de Lyon. In 1976, he was a pupil of
Yvonne Loriod's piano class at the
Conservatoire de Paris, where he obtained a
first prize. He completed his piano studies with
Germaine Mounier. He also studied
chamber music
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with
Geneviève Joy.
From 1988 to 1999, he was a member of the
Ensemble Intercontemporain, with whom he created numerous works by contemporary composers such as
Franco Donatoni,
György Ligeti,
Klaus Huber,
Philippe Fénelon
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and
Michael Jarrell. Among others, he played Boulez's ''
Structures for two pianos'' (with
Pierre-Laurent Aimard) and Luciano Berio's ''
Sequenza IV''. With
Isabelle Faust, he recorded Bartok's '. In 2001, he released a recording of
Debussy's and Bartók's works for piano for
Harmonia Mundi.
As a concert pianist, Boffard has performed at festivals in Salzburg, Berlin, Bath and Brussels, among others and has worked with conductors such as
Pierre Boulez
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,
Simon Rattle
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,
Leon Fleisher and
David Robertson.
Since 1997 he has been a professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, until 2016 when he began teaching at the
Conservatoire de Paris.
In 2001, the Forberg-Schneider Foundation awarded him the
Belmont Prize
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for his contribution to contemporary music.
Recordings
*
Arnold Schönberg's complete work for piano (éd. Mirare) ;
* Claude Debussy's ''
Études Études is French for "studies". It is used as a name for several music or dance works, including:
* ''Études'' (Chopin), three sets of studies for the piano by Frédéric Chopin, composed between 1829 and 1839
* ''Études'' (Debussy), a set of 1 ...
''
* Béla Bartók's 2nd Sonata for violin and piano, with
Isabelle Faust
*
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war Western classical music.
Born in Mont ...
's Structures for two pianos, with
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
* Luciano Berio's ''
Sequenza'' IV.
References
External links
Sartory ArtistsOfficial website Florent Boffard, Debussy / Bartok: Etudeson AllMusic
Florent Boffardon
France Musique
Florent Boffard, ''apprivoiser la musique contemporaine''on ResMusica
Schoenberg: Suite for Piano, Op.25 (Boffard)(YouTube)
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21st-century French male classical pianists
1964 births
Living people
Conservatoire de Paris alumni
Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris
Piano pedagogues
Place of birth missing (living people)