Named "Instrumentalist of the Year 1997" at the prestigious Victoires de la Musique award ceremony in Paris, the Swiss-French flutist Emmanuel Pahud is one of today's most exciting and adventurous musicians. Born in Geneva in January 1970, he started to study music at the age of six. He graduated in 1990 with the Premier Prix from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, after which he continued his studies with Aurele Nicolet.
Emmanuel has won first prize in many major International Music Competitions, such as Kobe in 1989, Duino in 1988. He then went on to win eight out of the twelve special prizes at the Concours de Genève in 1992. He took the Soloists Prize in the World-wide French-speaking Community Radio Awards, and the European Council's Juventus Prize. He is also a laureate of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation and of the International Tribune for Musicians of UNESCO ... read full bio
Named "Instrumentalist of the Year 1997" at the prestigious Victoires de la Musique award ceremony in Paris, the Swiss-French flutist Emmanuel Pahud is one of today's most exciting and adventurous musicians. Born in Geneva in January 1970, he started to study music at the age of six. He graduated in 1990 with the Premier Prix from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, after which he continued his studies with Aurele Nicolet.
Emmanuel has won first prize in many major International Music Competitions, such as Kobe in 1989, Duino in 1988. He then went on to win eight out of the twelve special prizes at the Concours de Genève in 1992. He took the Soloists Prize in the World-wide French-speaking Community Radio Awards, and the European Council's Juventus Prize. He is also a laureate of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation and of the International Tribune for Musicians of UNESCO.
At the age of 22, Emmanuel Pahud was appointed Principal Flute of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, a post to which he returned in 2002 after an 18-month sabbatical when he taught the Virtuosity Class at the Geneva Conservatoire. He has recently been voted onto the Media Vorstand of the BPO.
Emmanuel appears regularly at leading festivals throughout Europe, the USA and the Far East. He has appeared as soloist with many of the world's leading orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Zurich Tonhalle, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Mariinski, Minnesota Symphony, Camerata Salzburg, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Washington National Symphony, NHK Symphony, and Scottish Chamber orchestras. He has collaborated with conductors such as Abbado, Rattle, Zinman, Maazel, Gergiev, Gardiner, Harding, Järvi, Rostropovich and Perlman.
In 2009-10 Emmanuel performs with the National Philharmonic of Russia, Poznan Philharmonic, Strasbourg Philharmonic, Nagoya Philharmonic, Galacia Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Sao Paulo State Symphony Orchestra.
He is a dedicated chamber musician and regularly gives recital tours with pianists such as Eric Le Sage, Yefim Bronfman and Hélène Grimaud, as well as jazzing with Jacky Terrasson. In 2009-10 Emmanuel gives recitals with guitarist Christian Rivet and tours with Trevor Pinnock in Japan and Europe playing Bach complete flute sonatas. His recording of this programme with Pinnock was released on EMI in October 2008 and has recently won an Echo Klassik award.
In 1996 Emmanuel signed an exclusive contract with EMI Classics, a collaboration which is set to be one of the most significant contributions to recorded flute music. The releases have received unanimous critical acclaim and have been showered with awards including several TV-Victoires de la Musique, Diapason d'Or, Radio France's "Recording of the Year", Fono-Forum and TV-Echo awards in Germany, "Record Geijutsu" and "Ongaku no Tomo"award from the Japanese record industry.
In June 2009 Emmanuel was honoured to be given the title Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his contribution to music.
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