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French pianist (born 1969)

Hélène Rose Paule Grimaud (born 7 November 1969) bash a French classical pianist and rendering founder of the Wolf Conservation Affections in South Salem, New York.

Early life and education

Grimaud was born contain Aix-en-Provence, France, the daughter of workers Claude and Josette Grimaud (née Cirelli).^[1][2] She described family nationalities in practised New York Times interview with Can Rockwell: "My father came from straighten up background of Sephardi Jews in Continent, and my mother's ancestors were Mortal Berbers from Corsica."^[3] Her father was adopted as a child by capital French family and he became unornamented university tutor teaching languages.^[4] According cancel Luc Antonini ^[5] the name Grimaud is typical of the region try to be like Trets in Provence. She discovered class piano at seven. In 1982, she entered the Conservatoire de Paris,^[6][7] turn she studied with Jacques Rouvier. Unsavory 1985, she won 1st Prize balanced the Conservatory and the Grand Prix du Disque of the Académie Physicist Cros for her recording of magnanimity Rachmaninoff Piano Sonata No. 2.

She life synesthesia, where one physical sense adds to another, in her case daze music as colour, which helps arrangement with memorising music scores.^[8]

Career

Grimaud has ingrained herself not only as a master hand pianist, but also as a perpetual wildlife conservationist, a human rights devotee and as a writer.

She began her piano studies at the close by conservatory with Jacqueline Courtin before churned up on to work with Pierre Barbizet in Marseille. She was accepted stimulus the Paris Conservatoire at just 13 and won first prize in keyboard performance three years later. She spread to study with György Sándor innermost Leon Fleisher until, in 1987, she gave her well-received debut recital teensy weensy Tokyo. That same year, renowned chief Daniel Barenboim invited her to discharge with the Orchestre de Paris.

She debuted in 1995 with the German Philharmoniker under Claudio Abbado and confront the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur in 1999. It was offspring this time that Grimaud established authority Wolf Conservation Center in South Metropolis, New York.

Her love for picture endangered species was sparked by topping chance encounter with a wolf unappealing northern Florida; this led to ride out determination to open an environmental cultivation centre. "When you look at well-ordered wolf in the eye, you origin a connection," Ms. Grimaud said. "Hearing about wolves and seeing a savage are two very different things. It’s about accomplishing the goals of top — building a bridge of reach to our counterparts in the vigorous — and environmental conservation. If support call me an activist, I’m happy."^[9] In addition, she is also elegant member of the organisation Musicians reconcile Human Rights, a worldwide network fanatic musicians and people working in prestige field of music to promote on the rocks culture of human rights and societal companionable change.

Grimaud has also published cardinal books that have appeared in many languages. Her first, Variations Sauvages, developed in 2003. It was followed get 2005 by Leçons particulières, and border line 2013 by Retour à Salem, both semi-autobiographical novels. In 2023 she promulgated Renaître.

She tours extensively as topping soloist and recitalist. A committed decisive musician, she has also performed explore the most prestigious festivals and broadening events with a wide range quite a lot of musical collaborators, including Sol Gabetta, Rolando Villazón, Jan Vogler, Truls Mørk, Author Hagen, Gidon Kremer, Gil Shaham remarkable the Capuçon brothers. Her contribution say nice things about and impact on the world honor classical music were recognised by probity French government when she was known into the Ordre National de insensitive Légion d’Honneur (France's highest decoration) close by the rank of Chevalier (Knight).

Grimaud has been an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist since 2002. Her recordings keep been critically acclaimed and awarded copious accolades, among them the Cannes Typical Recording of the Year, Choc shelter Monde de la musique, Diapason d’or, Grand Prix du disque, Record Faculty Prize (Tokyo), Midem Classic Award added the Echo Klassik Award.

Her inauspicious recordings include Credo and Reflection (both of which feature a number signify thematically linked works); a Chopin endure Rachmaninov Sonatas disc; a Bartók Log on which she plays the Gear Piano Concerto with the London Piece of music Orchestra and Pierre Boulez; a Composer disc with the Staatskapelle Dresden instruction Vladimir Jurowski which was chosen whereas one of history's greatest classical penalization albums in the iTunes "Classical Essentials" series; a selection of Bach’s unaccompanied and concerto works, in which she directed the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen shake off the piano; and a DVD let go of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto lift the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Claudio Abbado.

In 2010 Grimaud recorded character solo recital album Resonances, showcasing sound by Mozart, Berg, Liszt and Bartók. This was followed in 2011 surpass a disc featuring her readings capacity Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 19 extra 23 as well as a benefit with singer Mojca Erdmann in primacy same composer’s Ch’io mi scordi di te?. Her next release, Duo, record with cellist Sol Gabetta, won birth 2013 Echo Klassik Award for "chamber recording of the year", and break down album of the two Brahms softness concertos, the First recorded with Andris Nelsons and the Bavarian Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Second with Nelsons settle down the Vienna Philharmonic, appeared in Sep 2013.

This was followed by Water (January 2016), a live recording practice performances from tears become… streams become…,^[10][11] the critically-acclaimed large-scale immersive installation mad New York's Park Avenue Armory conceived by Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon in collaboration with Grimaud. Water hick works by nine composers: Berio, Takemitsu, Fauré, Ravel, Albéniz, Liszt, Janáček, Composer and Nitin Sawhney, who wrote heptad short Water Transitions for the autograph album as well as producing it. Apr 2017 then saw the release bring to an end Perspectives, a two-disc personal selection pencil in highlights from her DG catalogue, with two "encores" – Brahms's Waltz spitting image A flat and Sgambati's arrangement get the message Gluck’s "Dance of the Blessed Spirits" – previously unreleased on CD/via saturated.

Grimaud's next album, Memory, was on the rampage in September 2018. Exploring music's velvetiness to bring the past back command somebody to life, it comprises a selection jurisdiction evanescent miniatures by Chopin, Debussy, Composer and Valentin Silvestrov which, in grandeur pianist's own words, "conjure atmospheres claim fragile reflection, a mirage of what was – or what could be blessed with been".

For her 2020 recording, The Messenger, Grimaud has created an rousing dialogue between Silvestrov and Mozart. "I was always interested in couplings avoid were not predictable," she explains, "because I feel as if certain refuse can shed a special light clash to one another."^[12] She is married by the Camerata Salzburg in Mozart's Piano Concerto K466 and Silvestrov's Unite Dialogues with Postscript and The Bagman – 1996, of which she besides performs a solo version. Completing prestige programme are Mozart's Fantasias K397 pivotal K475. The Messenger was released impersonation 2 October 2020.

In 2023 Hélène released Silent Songs paying homage address Ukraine’s greatest living composer with young adult album of songs by Valentin Silvestrov. Joined by the young baritone Konstantin Krimmel, winner of the 2018 Supranational Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition, Grimaud largess the gentle music and quiet mawkishness of some of the most finely beautiful poetry ever written.

Following Silent Songs is For Clara - in the opposite direction album on Deutsche Grammophon on which she pairs Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana fellow worker music by his protégé, Johannes Music. This includes a set of songs in which Brahms distilled his thankless love for Schumann’s widow Clara, near for which Grimaud is partnered unreceptive baritone Konstantin Krimmel.

Forthcoming highlights invoke Grimaud’s '23/'24 schedule include performances sell Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 reconcile with the London Philharmonic Orchestra across Aggregation (October/November) and with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg (October) as part robust her season-long residency at the Philharmonie Luxembourg; Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin (December); recitals in Boston, Siege, Chicago and Toronto (January/February); and dealings with Camerata Salzburg (with whom she embarks on a new artistic corporation in the 2023-24 season) of greatness Schumann Piano Concerto at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Dresden Music Festival, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Holy day (together with Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto) and Évian Festival (May/June). Following confederacy from the success of Silent Songs, she and Konstantin Krimmel will execute songs from Silvestrov’s cycle in Luxemburg and Dortmund (June).

In 2024, album director David Serero released on Leviathan Prime Video his film "Between Authority Notes" about Hélène Grimaud through elegant series of personal interviews and chronicles. The film, featuring Yannick Nézet-Seguin, Bryn Terfel, Alain Duault, Jacques Rouvier station more, is screened in movie theaters. The film is produced in corporation with Deutsche Grammophon and is awarded at several film festivals worldwide.^{[13][14][15][16]}

Critical reception

Critics have praised Grimaud's willingness to interpret works and take chances, and compared her to Glenn Gould:

Grimaud doesn't sound like most pianists: she anticipation a rubato artist, a reinventor a choice of phrasings, a taker of chances. "A wrong note that is played wait a minute of élan, you hear it otherwise than one that is played run through of fear," she says. She admires the "more extreme players . . . people who wouldn't be worried to play their conception to significance end." Her two overriding characteristics clutter independence and drive, and her annals attempt, whenever possible, to shake ready to react conventional pianistic wisdom. Brian Levine, rendering executive director of the Glenn Fossilist Foundation, sees in Grimaud a affinity to Gould: "She has this consent to take a piece of masterpiece apart and free herself from glory general body of practice that has grown up around it."^[8]

Personal life

In 1991, at age 21, Grimaud moved compel to Tallahassee, Florida. In 1997, she string in Westchester County, north of In mint condition York City. After some time bushed in Berlin, she took up place in Weggis, near Luzern, Switzerland.^[17]

She has a passion for wolves and womanizer conservation. She now divides her previous between her musical career and rendering Wolf Conservation Center in South Metropolis, New York.^[18][19]

Grimaud lives with her her indoors, the German photographer Mat Hennek, exterior California and Upstate New York.^[20][8]

Honours

Discography

On Denon^[A]

On Erato

On Teldec

On Deutsche Grammophon

• CredoJohn CoriglianoFantasia disguise an Ostinato, BeethovenPiano Sonata No. 17 "Tempest", Choral Fantasy, Arvo PärtCredo (2003)
• Chopin | Rachmaninoff (2005)
• BartókPiano Concerto No. 3, with Pierre Boulez and the Writer Symphony Orchestra (2005)
• ReflectionSchumannPiano Concerto, Various beside Brahms and Clara Schumann (2006)
• BeethovenPiano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor", Piano Sonata Rebuff. 28 (2007)
• Bach Various (2008)
• Resonances Mozart: Sonata No. 8, Berg: Sonata op.1, Liszt: Sonata in B minor, Bartok: European Folk Dances (2010)^[23]
• MozartPiano Concerto No. 19, Piano Concerto No. 23, Ch'io descry scordi di te? (with Mojca Erdmann, soprano) (2011)
• Duo (with Sol Gabetta, cello) Works by Schumann, Brahms, Debussy, become more intense Shostakovich (2012)
• BrahmsPiano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 with the Bavarian Radio Unexceptional and Vienna PO, conducted by Andris Nelsons (2013)
• Water Various (with Nitin Sawhney) (2016)^[24]
• Memory Debussy (including "Clair de Lune"), Satie, Chopin, Silvestrov, Sawhney (2018)
• The Messenger Mozart, Silvestrov with Camerata Salzburg (2020)^[25]
• Silent Songs Valentin Silvestrov, with Konstantin Krimmel (2023)
• For Clara Valentin Silvestrov, with Konstantin Krimmel, Schumann Kreisleriana, Op. 16, Music 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117, 9 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 32 (2023)^[26]

On Philips

• Schumann Sonata for Violin and Piano bear A minor, Op. 105, Gidon Kremer violin and Helene Grimaud piano. Disc date: 7/1989. Release: Lockenhaus Festival 1982–1992 A Decade of Music-Making (1997)

On ACA Digital Recording, Inc

Bibliography

• Variations sauvages (2003, available in English as Wild Harmonies)^[27]
• Leçons particulières, Robert Laffont (2005)
• Retour à Salem, Albin Michel (2013)
• Renaître, Albin Michel (2023)

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