Pascal Nemirovski (born January 1962) is a French pianist. In 1981, he was admitted to the Juilliard School on full scholarship (Steinway & Freundlich Fund), where he studied until 1984 with Nadia Reisenberg, pupil of Josef Hofmann, and Adele Marcus, pupil of Josef Lhevinne and Artur Schnabel. He subsequently continued his studies in Paris with France Clidat and Alexis Weissenberg.
From 1990 to 1995, at the invitation of the violinist Vladimir Spivakov, he directed the master classes of the Colmar International Festival.
In 2004, he released his debut recording, Entre Ciel et Terre, devoted to works by Chopin, Prokofiev and Scriabin. Reviewing it in Le Figaro, the critic Jacques Doucelin praised his performance of Prokofiev's Seventh Sonata for its "perfect rhythmic control and remarkable balance between virtuosity and musicality".
As a pedagogue, he enjoys an international reputation for presenting master classes throughout the world and is often a jury member at international piano competitions. He has given master classes at institutions including the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the Guangzhou Conservatory, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, the Conservatoire de Paris, the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv, the Jerusalem Music Centre, the Moscow Conservatory and the University of Oxford. His students include celebrated pianists Lise de la Salle and Louis Schwizgebel, as well as Emanuil Ivanov, George Harliono, Daniel Lebhardt, Roman Kosyakov, Edward Leung, Mario Mora and Yi Zhong.
From 2006 to 2016, he taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where in 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM). In 2012, he also became a teacher for the academy's LRAM teaching diploma, and edited two pedagogical books, Les Leçons de piano (volumes 1 and 2), co-authored with Béatrice Quoniam. During the same period, he also taught at The Purcell School. In 2015, he was appointed guest professor at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, becoming a professor and international chair in piano in September 2016.
He also teaches at several summer music festivals, including the Edwin Fischer Sommerakademie (Germany), MusicAlp (France), Music Fest Perugia (Italy), and the Cadenza Summer School (UK). He was appointed artistic director and chairman of the jury of the Concours International de Piano Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Saint-Priest/Lyon, France) from 2017 to 2021. In 2023, he was appointed artistic director and chairman of the jury of the Madrid International Piano Competition. The same year, he founded IPM – International Piano Masters, a platform for young pianists. Pascal Nemirovski is a Steinway artist.
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External links Official site of Pascal Nemirovski