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Claire Désert, born in 1967 in Angoulême, is a French pianist.
Claire Désert began learning the piano at the age of five. At fourteen, she entered the National Conservatory of Music in Paris. A student of the French composer Jean Hubeau, she won the first prize for chamber music.
In 1985, she won the first prize for piano unanimously by the jury. She was then enrolled in the class of Bulgarian pianist Vensislav Yankoff. The same year, Claire Désert was admitted to the piano improvement cycle. She obtained a scholarship from the French government and went to study for a year at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, in the class of Yevgeny Malinin. Back in France, she joined the class of cellist Roland Pidoux and further perfected herself in chamber music.
Professional career :
Since the early 1990s, the musician has performed on stages such as Wigmore Hall, Kennedy Center and Salle Pleyel and in international festivals, at the invitation of La Folle Journée, Piano aux Jacobins, Lille Piano ( s) Festival, Flâneries musicales de Reims, the Colmar International Music Festival, the Stavelot Festival or the Georges-Enesco Festival in Bucharest.
In 1997, she was named "new talent of the year" at the Victoires de la musique classique for her interpretation of concertos by Czech composer Antonin Dvorák and Russian pianist and composer Alexandre Scriabin, with the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra.
Claire Désert is also a piano teacher at the Paris National Conservatory of Music.
As a soloist, she regularly accompanies renowned symphonic groups such as the Orchester philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchester philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Orchester philharmonique de Paris, the Orchester national de Lille, the Orchester symphonique de Québec or the 'Orchester national d'Île-de-France. Her career as a musician led her to play and record alongside musicians from the Sine Nomine Quartet, cellists Anne Gastinel, Gary Hoffman, violinists Tedi Papavrami, Philippe Graffin and Nemanja Radulovic or pianist Emmanuel Strosser.
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