Occupation(s) Pianist Website www.pascalroge.net Role Pianist Genres Classical music | Instruments Piano Name Pascal Roge Education Conservatoire de Paris | |
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Born April 6, 1951 (age 73)
Paris, France ( 1951-04-06 ) Albums 3 Gymnopedies & Other P, After the Rain The Soft Soun, Piano Works, Piano Concertos nos 1‑5, Ravel: Piano Works Similar People Charles Dutoit, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Cristina Ortiz, Pierre Amoyal | ||
Pascal Rogé plays Debussy
Pascal Roge (born 6 April 1951) is a French pianist.
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His playing includes the works of compatriot composers Saint-Saens, Faure, Debussy, Ravel, Satie, and Poulenc, among others. However, his repertoire also covers the German masters Haydn, Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven.
Biography
Roge first appearance in public was in 1960 with a performance of Claude Debussy's Preludes. He won the piano prize at the Paris Conservatory and worked for several years with Julius Katchen. At seventeen, he gave his first recitals in major European cities, landing an exclusive contract with Decca in the process. He has a particular affinity with French composers such as Claude Debussy, Gabriel Faure, Maurice Ravel and Francis Poulenc. He also performs chamber works, with the Pasquier Trio, and with musicians such as Pierre Amoyal or Michel Portal, with whom he recorded Poulenc and Tchaikovsky. He gives recitals worldwide, in all the major centres. A friend of conductor Charles Dutoit, he was regularly invited to Canada to work with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra while Dutoit was conductor there.
In 2011 he and his wife Ami premiered the Concerto for Two Pianos by the Australian composer Matthew Hindson, which was commissioned to celebrate their recent wedding.
Songs
Je te veux
Gymnopedie no 2
Sonatine bureaucratique
Embryons desseches
Barcarolle No 1 in A minor - Op 26
Theme varie
Petite ouverture a danser
Gymnopedie No 3
Suite pour piano
Le Picadilly
Nocturne No 8
Gnossienne No 5
Avant-dernieres Pensees
Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois
Chapitres tournes en tous sens
Pour le Piano: L'isle Joyeuse
Trois mouvements perpetuels: I Assez modere
4 Preludes flasques
Nocturne No 1 in C major
Nocturne No 4
Scherzo for Violin and Piano in C minor
Epigraphes antiques
Satie: Le Piege de Meduse - Quadrille
Poulenc: Les soirees de Nazelles - FP 84 - 5 Le Charme enjoleur
Satie: Embryons desseches
Satie: Gnossiennes - No 3 - Lent
Faure: Piano Quartet No1 in C minor - Op15 - 3 Adagio
Preludes Livre II - L 123: IX Hommage a Samuel Pickwick Esq PPMPC
Poulenc: Improvisations 11-12 - FP 113 - 12 Improvisation in E flat major
Satie: Sports et Divertissements - Le Flirt
Satie: Pecadilles importunes - Lui manger sa tartine
Carnet d'Esquisses et de Croquis: Bribes