pianist, organist, improviser, composer, teacher ...
Gerard Parmentier studied piano at the Ecole Normale, at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris, European conservatory while working with the same vitality ... . writing music, the clarinet, but also the organ, an instrument on which he plays all the work of Bach.
This has led naturally to the art of improvisation, with the Prix du Concours International d'Improvisation de Lyon.
For 12 years he will be titular church of St Maurice de Courbevoie-Becon, then from 1973 to 1977 Director of Music at the National Theatre and The French Comedy from 1979 to 1990 Pianist of the Paris Opera. Passionate Music Baroque will work also, among others, with William Christie, Jean Claude Malgloire.
same time it will be the pianist at countless concerts around the world, Luciano Pavarotti, Ruggero Raymond, Roberto Alagna, Gabriel Bacquier,
Kiri te Kanawa Katia Ricciarelli, Whileminia Fernandez (whose film DIVA), Shirley Verrett, Christa Ludwig and Nadine Denize (with whom he recorded a CD devoted to Wagner) He has also performed with Armin Jordan, George Priest and Jean Claude Casadessus, to name a few.
This does not prevent him from working in various circumstances and the most varied fields with, for example Robert Hossein, Pierre Cardin, Dance Company "Blanca Li, being the pianist for four years of the program "The Mask and Feather" on France Inter, being the "Liszt - improviser" in the soap opera "Liszt" on France Musique, or even charge musical organization of the Papal Mass at Le Bourget during the visit of Pope John Paul II when he ran a wind orchestra and a choir of 800 people.
He has also performed in chamber music with Pierre-Yves Artaud, Quatuor Via Nova, Aaron Rosand, Ivry Gitlis, Thierry Caen. He also formed a duo Viola - Piano 'Duo Hermitage "with Matthew Hunter, viola soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic.
He gave under different forms, concerts around the world, Asia has booked him a personal welcome worthy of the highest figures. For example in China where Also many TV Master Classes and concerts as a soloist, he created the piano concerto "The Tide" Chiu Tiang-Long National Traditional Orchestra of Hong Kong (he is the only European to have had that honor).
teacher and after teaching in various institutions - Conservatory of Pamplona in Spain, Ecole Normale and the Paris Conservatoire - he was Academic Director and Professor of Piano at the School of Music Centre Chopin in Paris. In September 2009, he established a school of music at home, the Institute Gérard Parmentier.
There is also a composer (Chamber Music, Stage, Piano, Voice, etc..) And recorded throughout his career more disks.
It is rare for artists to include in its concert programs "Improvisation" thereby reviving the great tradition of the 19th century. That the public gives it a theme and it is at once the music alive. These two words then find all their senses, to the astonishment and happiness each.
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