Pascal Nemirovski (born 1962) is a French

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. In 1981, he was admitted to the

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on full scholarship (

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& Freundlich Fund) and studied with

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, pupil of

Josef Hofmann Josef Casimir Hofmann (originally Józef Kazimierz Hofmann; January 20, 1876February 16, 1957) was a Polish-American pianist, composer, music teacher, and inventor. Biography Josef Hofmann was born in Podgórze (a district of Kraków), in ...

and

Adele Marcus Adele Marcus (February 22, 1906 May 3, 1995) was an American pianist and instructor whose career was based at the Juilliard School in New York City. Life and career Marcus was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the youngest of 13 children of a rabbi ...

, pupil of

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. As a pedagogue, he enjoys an international reputation for presenting master classes throughout the world and is often a jury member at international piano competitions. His students include celebrated pianists

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and

Louis Schwizgebel Louis Schwizgebel (born 19 November 1987) is a Swiss pianist. He studied piano with Franz Josefovski and Brigitte Meyer at the Lausanne Conservatory, Pascal Devoyon at Universität der Künste Berlin, Emanuel Ax and Robert McDonald at the Jui ...

. From 2006 to 2016, he taught at the

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in London, where in 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM). In 2012, he also became a teacher for the academy's LRAM teaching diploma. Since 2011, he has taught at The Purcell School. In 2015, he was appointed guest professor at the

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, becoming a professor and international chair in piano in September 2016. He is currently a visiting professor at the

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and

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Conservatories in China. He also teaches at several summer music festivals, including the Edwin Fischer Sommerakademie (Germany), MusicAlp (France), Music Fest Perugia (Italy), and the Cadenza Summer School (UK). He was appointed artistic director and chairman of the jury of the Concours International de Piano Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Saint-Priest/Lyon, France) from 2017 to 2021. In 2023, He is appointed artistic director and chairman of the Madrid International Piano Competition. Pascal Nemirovski is a Steinway artist.

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External links

Official site of Pascal NemirovskiOfficial site of Madrid International Piano CompetitionGenealogy on Pianists Corner
21st-century French male classical pianists 1962 births Academics of the Royal Academy of Music Piano pedagogues Living people Juilliard School alumni Academics of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire {{classical-pianist-stub