{"id":248330,"date":"2025-11-04T14:34:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/project\/frederic-aguessy\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T14:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:35:37","slug":"frederic-aguessy","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.musicalta.com\/en\/project\/frederic-aguessy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Aguessy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Winner of competitions in Geneva and Naples in 1974, and Budapest and Santander in 1976, French pianist Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Aguessy won first prize at the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris in 1979. This award opened the doors to an international career that took him from London to New York, from Japan to South America, and across most European countries (Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Hungary, etc.). <\/span><\/p>\n

Invited by numerous orchestras (Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre Philharmonique des Pays de Loire, Orchestre National de l’Op\u00e9ra de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre de la Philharmonie G. Enesco de Bucarest, Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Cannes Provence C\u00f4te d’Azur, Orchestre Sinfonietta de Picardie, Bernard Thomas Orchestra), he also devotes a significant part of his activities to chamber music. He participates in numerous festivals: Yokohama Piano Festival (Japan), Les Arcs Festival, La Roque d’Anth\u00e9ron Festival, Montpellier and Radio France International Festival, Paris Summer Festival. <\/span><\/p>\n

With a broad repertoire in which French music plays a major role, he has commissioned several works (Etudes for piano by Anthony Girard, Concerto for piano and orchestra by Max Pinchard).<\/span><\/p>\n

He has also recorded piano works by Jehan Alain, transcriptions and paraphrases by Franz Liszt, Ernest Bloch’s sonatas for violin and piano with Alexis Galperine, and works for two pianos by Mozart, Brahms and Ravel with C\u00e9dric Tiberghien.<\/span><\/p>\n

Holder of five prizes from the Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur de Musique de Paris, as well as a degree in literature from the University of Paris-Sorbonne, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Aguessy studied with Monique de la Bruchollerie, Yvonne Lef\u00e9bure, Pierre Barbizet, Dominique Merlet, and Genevi\u00e8ve Joy-Dutilleux.<\/span><\/p>\n

A laureate of the Cziffra Foundation and the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, he is interested in conducting and has conducted works for chamber orchestra as well as for choir and orchestra.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since 1999, he has been invited each year to participate as a concert performer and teacher at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, founded by Nadia Boulanger and now known as the \u2018American Schools of Art\u2019.<\/p>\n

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He was an assistant professor at the Paris Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur de Musique and currently teaches at the Conservatoire National de R\u00e9gion de Rouen.<\/span><\/p>\n

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