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19 PHILIPPE CASSARD Philippe Cassard Philippe Cassard trained with Dominique Merlet and Geneviève Joy-Dutilleux at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. In 1982 he was awarded Premiers Prix in piano and chamber music. He rounded out his experience for two years at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna and then received guidance from the legendary Nikita Magaloff. A finalist at the Clara Haskil Competition in 1985, he won First Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition in 1988. Since then he has been invited to appear with the leading European orchestras (London Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Budapest Philharmonic, Danish Radio Orchestra, among others), playing under the direction of such conductors as Sir Neville Marriner, Marek Janowski, Sir Roger Norrington, Charles Dutoit, Yan-Pascal Tortelier, Armin Jordan and Vladimir Fedoseyev. His taste for chamber music and the voice has led him to collaborate with eminent artists like Christa Ludwig, Karine Deshayes, Angelika Kirchschlager, Wolfgang Holzmair, Michel Portal, DavidGrimal,Anne Gastinel, Cédric Pescia, and the Ebène, Modigliani, Voce and Hermès quartets. He forms a duo with the soprano Natalie Dessay, with whom he has given nearly eighty concerts in the most prestigious venues since 2012. Philippe Cassard is one of the most popular voices on France Musique, on which he has presented more than 600 programmes since 2005. He has published two essays on Schubert and Debussy (Actes Sud). www.philippecassard.com