Gérard (Georges) Poulet (born 12 August 1938) is a French classical

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

ist.

Biography

Born in

Bayonne Bayonne () is a city in southwestern France near the France–Spain border, Spanish border. It is a communes of France, commune and one of two subprefectures in France, subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques departments of France, departm ...

the son of conductor

Gaston Poulet Gaston Poulet (10 April 1892 – 14 April 1974) was a French violinist and conductor. He played an important part in the diffusion of the contemporary music of the first half of the 20th century. His son Gérard Poulet, born in 1938, is also a vio ...

, Poulet started studying the

at age five. At 11 he entered the

Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), or the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (; CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue Jean Ja ...

in André Asselin's class and was unanimously awarded first prize in violin at age 12. He performed

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the same year under the direction of his father with the

Concerts Colonne The Colonne Orchestra is a French symphony orchestra, founded in 1873 by the violinist and conductor Édouard Colonne. History While leader of the Opéra de Paris orchestra, Édouard Colonne was engaged by the publisher Georges Hartmann to lead ...

. In 1956, he won the 1st Grand Prix of the

Paganini Competition The Paganini Competition (aka Premio Paganini or Paganini Concore) is an international violin competition named after the famed virtuoso and founder of contemporary violin technique Niccolò Paganini. Created in 1954 it has been carried out ever s ...

in Genoa then perfected his skills with

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Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin (22 April 191612 March 1999), was an American-born British violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. ...

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, and

Henryk Szeryng Henryk Bolesław Szeryng (usually pronounced ''HEN-r-ik SHEH-r-in-g'') (22 September 19183 March 1988) was a Polish- Mexican violinist. Early years He was born in Warsaw, Poland on 22 September 1918 into a wealthy Jewish family. The surname ...

. He considers the latter as "his father in music". Poulet was professor, then honorary professor at the Conservatoire de Paris. His students included the violinists ,

Renaud Capuçon Renaud Capuçon (born 27 January 1976) is a French classical violinist. Since late 2016 he has been teaching at the Royal Northern College of Music. He is the older brother of cellist Gautier Capuçon. Biography Capuçon was born in Chamb� ...

Sarah Nemtanu Sarah Nemtanu (born 1981) is a Franco-Romanian classical violinist. Biography Nemtanu started studying the violin with her father, Vladimir Nemtanu, solo concertmaster of the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. She then studied at the Conse ...

, Jean-Marc Phillips-Varabédjian, Svetlin Roussev, Marie Scheublé, Klodiana Skenderi,

Guillaume Sutre Guillaume Sutre (born in 1969) is a French classical violinist. Ensembles * 1987–1995: Trio Wanderer, founding member * 1995–2014: Ysaÿe Quartet (1984), Ysaÿe Quartet, 1st violin * 1991– : Duo Sutre-Kim, violin and harp Teaching ...

, Akiko Yamada. He was also a full professor at the

École Normale de Musique de Paris The École Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot" (ENMP) is a leading conservatoire located in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. The school was founded in 1919 by Auguste Mangeot and Alfred Cortot. The term ''école normale'' (English: no ...

and at the

Tokyo University of the Arts or is a school of art and music in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained artists in the fields of painting, sculpture, crafts, inter ...

. In his discography, several recordings, notably Bartók's Sonata for Solo Violin and the six Bach's

Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin The Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (BWV 1001–1006) are a set of six works composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. They are sometimes referred to in English as the Sonatas and for Solo Violin in accordance with Bach's headings in the autograph ...

, have been warmly welcomed by the critics.

Films

* ''Une leçon particulière'', directed by

Claude Mouriéras Claude Mouriéras (born 27 September 1953) is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed nine films since 1989. His film '' Dis-moi que je rêve'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Film ...

, conception by and François Manceaux, 1987.

References

External links

Portrait of Gérard Poulet

Gérard Poulet
(MWéditions)
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)
Gérard Moulet
(Tutti Magazine)
Discography
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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Poulet, Gerard 20th-century French violinists 20th-century French male musicians French male classical violinists 1938 births Living people People from Bayonne Conservatoire de Paris alumni Academic staff of the Conservatoire de Paris Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres