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GEOFFROY COUTEAU
Pure as diamond,
soft as snow
The last four opuses for piano became an essential fixture in Geoffroy
Couteau’s career at a very early age. The score of op.118 on the thirteen-year-
old pianist's desk marked his first encounter with the composer’s style; his
entrance examination for the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique
a few years later was liberated from all anxiety by op.116, which inspired in
him a feeling of unprecedented freedom; in 2005 he won First Prize at the
Johannes Brahms International Competition, and, entirely logically, his first
recording, released in 2008, was devoted to the composer.
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